ABOUT

AWT

Art Week Tokyo is an annual showcase of the creativity and diversity of contemporary art in Tokyo. Seeking to stimulate the growth of Tokyo’s art ecosystem, the event connects over 50 of the city’s leading museums, galleries, and art spaces through four days of coordinated programming. The free AWT Bus service links all venues and makes it easier than ever to explore one of the world’s most dynamic art scenes along with all the culture that Tokyo has to offer. 

Special platforms open up the event to broad audiences. The curated sales platform AWT Focus, held at the Okura Museum of Art, invites a guest curator to experiment with new narratives of modern and contemporary art through works drawn from Art Week Tokyo’s participating galleries. AWT Video presents a free program of moving image works screened in a special pavilion. For the AWT Bar, Art Week Tokyo commissions an emerging architect, a rising chef, and selected artists to produce a multisensory art experience in a pop-up bar space in the heart of the trendy Minami-Aoyama neighborhood. The final platform, AWT Talks, encompasses a headlining symposium, a closed-door curators’ roundtable, and a popular series of talks hosted online. Additionally, Art Week Tokyo’s VIP program offers art patrons unprecedented access to the best of Tokyo’s art scene through exclusive tours, private views, collection visits, and other events.  

Art Week Tokyo is organized by Japan Contemporary Art Platform in collaboration with Art Basel, with support from Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs. Art Week Tokyo’s infrastructural development initiative, the Art Week Tokyo Mobile Project, is co-organized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Art Week Tokyo Mobile Project Organizing Committee. Art Week Tokyo held a soft-launch edition in November 2021 under pandemic conditions and its first full-scaled edition the following November. The 2023 edition featured 51 participating institutions, galleries, and art spaces and attracted more than 43,000 visitors.

Public Days: November 7–10, 2024
Preview Days: November 5–6, 2024

ORGANIZERS

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Japan Contemporary Art Platform

Kazunari Shirai, Corepresentative Director

Atsuko Ninagawa, Corepresentative Director

Junya Komatsu, Director

Yoshiko Isshiki

Hidemi Nishida

TOKYO METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT

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Art Week Tokyo Mobile Project Organizing Committee

Mami Kataoka, Director, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Yayoi Komatsu, Director, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Atsuko Ninagawa, Cofounder, Japan Contemporary Art Platform, and Director, Art Week Tokyo

Shuji Ogawa, Deputy Director, The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Yuko Shiomi, Director, Arts Initiative Tokyo

Takehito Nakaniwa, Auditor

Art Week Tokyo Advisory Board

Takayuki Ishii, Taka Ishii Gallery

Atsuko Koyanagi, Gallery Koyanagi

Hidenori Ota, Ota Fine Arts

Masami Shiraishi, SCAI The Bathhouse

Hozu Yamamoto, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP

PRODUCTION TEAM

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Executives

Atsuko Ninagawa, Director

Hidemi Nishida, Chief Operations Officer

Junya Komatsu, Legal Executive

Operations

Milan Hou

Eri Ishijima

Qiuyu Jin

Rei Kagami

Maiko Kato

Shinya Kimata

Yoichiro Oike

Koyuri Sato

Kazushi Tani

Mone Yamamoto

Suguru Yokomatsu

Education

Yuko Shiomi (AIT), Project Director

Editorial

Andrew Maerkle, Editorial Director

Benjamin Korman, Assistant Editor

Darryl Jingwen Wee, Web Editor—Venues

Emily McDermott, English Copyeditor

Asuka Kawanabe, Japanese Editor

Shinichi Uchida, Japanese Web Editor—Venues

Visual Communication

Atsuki Kikuchi, Art Director

Katsuhiro Saiki, Photographer

Akari Eda, Videographer

Hiroshi Sunairi, Social Media

Website Development

Shunya Hagiwara, Web Director

Tomoki Tachibana (Shed Inc.), Art Director

Chizuka Kohno (Shed Inc.), Manager

Nanami Shozakai (Shed Inc.), Project Manager/Engineer

Hibiki Tarukawa (Shed Inc.), Designer

Aya Iwai (Shed Inc.), Designer

Bus Logistics

Noritaka Nakajo (Sun Design), Project Manager

Noriyuki Tabata (up-con), Director

Takanori Anzai (up-con), Assistant Director

AWT Bar

Naoko Kawamura, Architecture Project Manager

Rie Narisawa, Food Project Manager

VIP Relations

Natane Takeda, VIP Representative

Media Relations

Erica Siu (Sutton)

Carol Lo (Sutton)

Lydia Tai (Sutton)

Yuko Aizu (WAG, Inc.)

Runa Haga (WAG, Inc.)

Goro Hayashi (WAG, Inc.)

Technical Advisors

Hiroki Nakagawa (regist ART), Managing Director

Naoki Ishihara (regist ART), Project Manager

Seiichi Sato (Turingum), Development Manager

Yusuke Egami (Turingum), Engineer