MINEBANE! Contemporary Art - The Taguchi Art Collection

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Dates and Hours
Saturday, 19 July 2025 – Sunday, 7 September 2025
10:00 am – 6:00 pm (admission ends 30 minutes before closing time)

Venue
Akita Museum of Art
Akita Senshu Museum of Art

Admission Fees
Adults 1,500 yen, college students 1,000 yen
Advanced ticket, group and disabled visitors: Adults 1,200 yen, collage students 800 yen
*Admission is free for high school students or under.

Organized by
Executive Committee of the Taguchi Art Collection Exhibition
(Akita Prefecture, Akita Senshu Museum of Art, The Akita Sakigame Shimpo, Masakichi Hirano Art Foundation)

Supported by
NHK Akita Station, Akita Broadcasting System, Akita Television, Akita Asahi Broadcasting,
FM Akita, Cable Networks Akita

With the planning Cooperation of
Taguchi Art Foundation, Artsplus Institute of Contemporary Arts, Art Office Shiobara

Artists
Allora & Calzadilla / Jonathas de Andrade / Joël Andrianomearisoa / Satoru Aoyama / Yusuke Asai / Peter Blake / Stefan Brüggemann / Li-ren Chang / Jose Dávila / Gardar Eide Einarsson / Elmgreen & Dragset / EUGENE STUDIO / Eugene Kangawa / exonemo / Sam Falls / Mark Flood / Tomoo Gokita / Katharina Grosse / Subodh Gupta / Peter Halley / Kyungah Ham / Keith Haring / N. S. Harsha / Secundino Hernández / Damien Hirst / Donna Huanca / Rashid Johnson / Hayv Kahraman / Teppei Kaneuji / Izumi Kato / Tadashi Kawamata / Seydou Keïta / Tomoko Konoike / Kyun-Chome / Sean Landers / Dinh Q. Lê / Lu Yang / Beatriz Milhazes / Jonathan Monk / Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho / Masato Mori (MUSTONE) / Yasumasa Morimura / Zanele Muholi / Vik Muniz / Takashi Murakami / Oscar Murillo / Yoshitomo Nara / Tammy Nguyen / Samuel Nnorom / Shinro Ohtake / Oscar Oiwa / Yoko Ono / Julian Opie / OSGEMEOS / Emilio Perez / Rob Pruitt / Marc Quinn / Anselm Reyle / Marina Rheingantz / Thomas Ruff / Edward Ruscha / Kazuya Sakamoto / Hiraki Sawa / Tomoko Sawada / Chiharu Shiota / Elias Sime / Bosco Sodi / Hajime Sorayama / Hiroshi Sugimoto / Hiroshi Sugito / Hiraku Suzuki / Kiyoshi Takahashi / Keiichi Tanaami / Yuken Teruya / Hank Willis Thomas / Mickalene Thomas / Gavin Turk / Xavier Veilhan / Kehinde Wiley / Shuhei Yamada / Chikako Yamashiro / Yukinori Yanagi

Installation Views

Events

Talk Session about the Taguchi Art Collection
Speaker: Miwa Taguchi (Taguchi Art Collection) and Masashi Shiobara (Art Office Shiobara)
Date: Saturday, 19 July 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Venue: auditorium in Akita Senshu Museum of Art
Capacity: 70 people

Artist Talks
Kazuya Sakamoto
Date: Sunday, 20 July 2025, 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Satoru Aoyama
Date: Monday, 11 August 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Teppei Kaneuji
Date: Saturday, 16 August 2025, 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Workshops
Watch the Workshop Highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdWL1uCIBaE

Kazuya Sakamoto
Date: Sunday, 20 July 2025, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Workshop Report
https://taguchiartcollection.jp/news/announcement/2025-akita-event-aws-report-ks-0720/

Tomoko Sawada
Date: Friday, 25 July 2025, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Workshop Report
https://taguchiartcollection.jp/news/announcement/2025-akita-event-aws-report-ts-0725/

Satoru Aoyama
Date: Monday, 11 August 2025, 10:15 am – 12:15 pm
Workshop Report
https://taguchiartcollection.jp/news/announcement/2025-akita-event-aws-report-sa-0811/

Teppei Kaneuji
Date: Friday, 15 August 2025, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Workshop Report
https://taguchiartcollection.jp/news/announcement/2025-akita-event-aws-report-tk-0815/

Guided Tour for Elementary School Students
Date: Friday, 25 July 2025, 14:00 am – 15:30 pm
Tour Report
https://taguchiartcollection.jp/news/announcement/2025-akita-event-tour-report-0725/

Video Art Screening
Start Times: 10:30 am / 11:30 am / 1:30 pm / 2:30 pm / 3:30 pm
Venue: Auditorium in Akita Senshu Museum of Art
Capacity: 50 people each
[A] Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho, MYOHYANGSANGWAN, 2014
Wednesday, 31 July and Saturday, 9 August
[B] Chikako Yamashiro, A Woman of the Butcher Shop, 2016
Saturday, 2 August and Wednesday, 20 August
[C] Lu Yang, DOKU the self, 2022
Sunday, 3 August and Wednesday, 27 August
[D] Chang Li-ren, Battle City 1 - The Glory of Taiwan -, 2010-2017
Monday, 4 August and Saturday, 16 August
[E] Chang Li-ren, Battle City 2 - Economic Miracle -, 2018-2021
Tuesday, 5 August and Saturday, 30 August
[F] Kyun-Chome, Making a Perfect Donut, 2018
Wednesday, 6 August and Sunday, 31 August

Lecture about Exhibition Highlights by curators
Dates: Saturday, 26 July and Saturday, 23 August
Time: 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Venues: lecture room in Akita Museum of Art / auditorium in Akita Senshu Museum of Art
Capacity: 40 people each

Projection Mapping: holes and buildings (AKITA)
Artist: Teppei Kaneuji
Dates: Friday, 15 August and Saturday, 16 August
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (canceled in case of severe weather)
Place: outside the main entrance of the Akita Museum of Art
Admission: Free
Co-creation: Shimpei Yamada (Projection designer)
Presented by: The Artsplus Institute of Contemporary Arts
Event Report
https://taguchiartcollection.jp/news/announcement/2025-akita-spevent-report-tk-0815-16/

Links
Akita Museum of Art
1-4-2 Nakadori, Akita City, Akita, 010-0001 Japan
Tel: +81 18 853 8686 / Fax: +81 18 836 0877

Akita Senshu Museum of Art
2-3-8 Nakadori, Akita City, Akita, 010-0001 Japan
Tel: +81 18-836-7860 / Fax: +81 18-836-7862