"FUJII Hikaru WHOSE LIGHT?" Exhibition, "The Strangers’ Gaze" Exhibition

The Artizon Museum will be simultaneously hosting "Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × FUJII Hikaru WHOSE LIGHT?" and "The Strangers’ Gaze—Japanese Artists in Europe " from October 24, 2026. Tickets are on sale at Lawson Ticket.

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• Table of Contents
• "Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × FUJII Hikaru WHOSE LIGHT?"
• "The Strangers’ Gaze —Japanese Artists in Europe"
• Event Overview

"Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × FUJII Hikaru WHOSE LIGHT?"

Since 2020, the Artizon Museum has organized the annual Jam Session series, a collaborative exhibition program in which a contemporary artist engages with works from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection.For the seventh in this series, we welcome Fujii Hikaru, who has explored the intimate relationship between the art, society, and history through detailed research and field work.

For this Jam Session, Fujii focuses on the association of light with truth, the central theme of Plato’s allegory of the cave in Book VII of the Republic. Rather than asking what that light illuminates, he reverses the question to consider “who is casting that light?” critically re-examining the structure of truth itself. In response to this question, the exhibition presents twenty-two works from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection selected by Fujii and a dozen or more of his own works—including new pieces— ranging from antiquity through the Middle Ages and the modern period to the postwar era. 

"The Strangers’ Gaze —Japanese Artists in Europe"

Since 1868, with the Meiji Restoration, many people from Japan have traveled to Europe to study aspects of Western culture.For artists, studying in Europe brought them into contact with famous Occidental paintings and the latest artistic trends, both of which they absorbed insatiably.

Through their experiences as an étranger, a stranger, they created a great variety of works: basic dessin in art classes, copies of works in art museums, portraits of the people with whom they interacted in that alien land, landscape paintings created while out sketching. Those works are also a source of information for speaking eloquently about what they were looking at and what they learned from.

This exhibition presents over a hundred vibrant paintings from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection that artists, including Kuroda Seiki, Fujishima Takeji, Yasui Sotaro, and Fujita Tsuguharu, created while in Europe.Special Selections from the Collection will also be on view in the exhibition area.

Event Overview

"Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × FUJII Hikaru WHOSE LIGHT?"
"The Strangers’ Gaze —Japanese Artists in Europe"

◆Event Period: October 24, 2026 (Sat) - January 31, 2027 (Sun)

◆Closed days: Mondays, November 24th (Tue), December 28th (Mon) to January 4th (Mon), January 12th (Tue)
*Open on November 23rd (Monday, public holiday) and January 11th (Monday, public holiday)

◆Event Hours: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
*Open until 8:00 PM every Friday *Last entry is 30 minutes before closing

◆Venue: Artizon Museum (1-7-2 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo)

◆Price On-line ticket: ¥1,200 (tax included)
In-Person ticket (purchase at museum): ¥1,500 (tax included)
University students, vocational school students, and high school students: Free (reservations required via the official website)
Junior high school students: Free (no reservation required)
Persons with a disability certificate and one accompanying person: Free (no reservation required)

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Official website

"Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × FUJII Hikaru WHOSE LIGHT?" Exhibition
https://www.artizon.museum/exhibition/detail/608

"The Strangers’ Gaze —Japanese Artists in Europe" Exhibition
https://www.artizon.museum/exhibition/detail/610

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