The Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA) is currently staging the exhibition “Koji Nakazono: Soulmate.” Opening on June 17 (Sat), the exhibition will run until September 18 (Mon/public holiday) 2023. A press preview, as described below, was held the day before opening, on June 16 (Fri). Exhibition Room Photo：Kenji Takahashi

The exhibit “In Marugame – At the Moment – Three Artist Collectives” runs from Saturday, December 18, 2021 through Monday, March 21, 2022 at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA).This is the second part of our interview with one of the featured artist groups Nadegata Instant Party, consisting of Tohru Nakazaki, Daisuke Yamashiro, and Tomoko Noda.Picking up where we left off, we asked how the group’s installation “HOME STAY HOME” came to be and the insights they gained through the project.Interviewed and written by Mio SubanaPhotos by Shintaro Miyawaki

The exhibit “In Marugame – At the Moment – Three Artist Collectives” runs from Saturday, December 18, 2021 through Monday, March 21, 2022 at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA). This is the first part of our interview with one of the featured artist groups, Nadegata Instant Party, consisting of Tohru Nakazaki, Daisuke Yamashiro, and Tomoko Noda. We asked how their installation “HOME STAY HOME”—which documents a homestay project where Marugame residents virtually hosted guests from across Japan—came to be, and how they produced the installation amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.Interviewed and written by Mio SubanaPhotos by Shintaro Miyawaki

The exhibit Feelin’ Groovy! Walk Around New York with Genichiro Inokuma was on view until August 15 at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA). In this second part of the conversation between Hitoshi Okamoto, who served as “chief editor” and Taka Kawachi, a former New Yorker who was “deputy editor” of the exhibit, discuss the characteristics of the exhibit and how it was shaped.Photos by Takeru Koroda

The exhibit Feelin’ Groovy! Walk Around New York with Genichiro Inokuma is now on view at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA) until September 5, 2021 (Sunday). To showcase the appeal of Genichiro Inokuma (1902–1993) from a fresh angle, the organizers invited as “chief editor” Hitoshi Okamoto and as “deputy editor” Taka Kawachi to produce the exhibit. Like Inokuma, Kawachi happens to be a former resident of New York.This first part of a conversation between Okamoto and Kawachi explores how they first learned of Inokuma and what the two rediscovered about the artist’s appeal.Photos by Takeru Koroda

Encounter—Infinite Variety of Faces ran through Sunday, June 6, 2021 at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA). We spoke with super-KIKI, one of the featured artists, about how she captures and depicts faces, focusing on her works in the exhibition.Interviewed and written by Taisuke ShimanukiPhotos by Jin Fukuda

Encounter—Infinite Variety of Faces ran through Sunday, June 6, 2021 at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA). We spoke with Yosuke Takayama, one of the featured artists, about how he captures and depicts faces, focusing on his works at the exhibition.Interviewed and written by Taisuke ShimanukiPhotos by Jin Fukuda

Here are some highlights from the exhibition, to open between January 23–March 7, 2021.

At Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA), the exhibition “The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows” is being held from October 13 (Tuesday), 2020 to January 11 (Monday, national holiday), 2021. Among exhibition participants is the Xijing Men, a project-based collaborative team of a Japanese, a Chinese, and a Korean. The MIMOCA magazine presents in two parts an interview with one of its members, Tsuyoshi Ozawa. In this second part, I ask him about the Xijing Men team’s work shown in the exhibition.Interviewer and text: Chisai Fujita, art writerPhotography: Shintaro Miyawaki