Naoshima New Museum of Art
Opens on Saturday, May 31, 2025
Inaugural Exhibition - From the Origin to the Future

Photo: GION

Naoshima New Museum of Art (architect: Tadao Ando, director: Miki Akiko) will open on Saturday, May 31, 2025, at 10 a.m.

Launched in the late 1980s, Benesse Art Site Naoshima aspires to build a community through partnerships with locals and a harmony of nature, architecture, and art. It has created a nexus of museums and art facilities, turning Naoshima, Teshima, and Inujima into a place unlike any other in the world. The latest addition to this thirty-five-year endeavor is the Naoshima New Museum of Art. Located in a village, it marks architect Tadao Ando's tenth contribution to the Benesse Art Site Naoshima constellation of museums and facilities, and is the first to bear the name of the island. Naoshima New Museum of Art exhibits and collects works by artists from Japan and other parts of Asia. Through occasional and partial rotations of exhibits and various public programs, it aims to convey more diverse perspectives and forms of expression as well as multifaceted messages about the times and society, and be a place of exchange and collaboration for people to visit time and again, and a wide range of locals and visitors to meet. Starting on the same day as the museum opening, the inaugural exhibition features previous major works and new site-specific pieces by twelve artists and groups from Asia, including Japan, China, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, India, the Philippines, and Malaysia.

*Advance reservation tickets for May 31 are sold out.