EXHIBI­TIONS

OSGEMEOS + BARRY MCGEE

This exhibition is a collaboration between the São Paulo–based artist duo Osgemeos (twin brothers Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo) and San Francisco-based artist Barry McGee. Both Osgemeos and McGee emerged out of the international street art and graffiti scenes in the 1980s and 1990s to earn widespread acclaim at an early age. Osgemeos was recently featured in the duo’s first US institutional survey at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. The exhibition, entitled “Endless Story,” ran for a year from September 2024 to August 2025 and brought together more than 1,000 artworks, photographs, and archival materials. The duo considers McGee to be a close friend and mentor dating back to their first meeting in São Paulo in the early 1990s. Reflecting that shared history, this presentation of Osgemeos and McGee in Tokyo will go beyond a mere two-person exhibition to achieve a groundbreaking creative dialogue between the artists.

WATARI-UM

Watari-um, the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, opened in 1990 as a private museum. The museum collection is based on works acquired by the founding director Shizuko Watari, a champion of postwar Western art in Japan. Watari-um holds three-to-four exhibitions per year that cover a broad range of topics, from contemporary art and Japanese culture to architecture. Guest curators have included such legendary figures as Jan Hoet, Jean-Hubert Martin, and Harald Szeemann. Accompanying lectures, workshops, and other events help visitors gain a deeper understanding of the exhibitions and their significance to contemporary society. The museum also organizes off-site exhibitions and events.

Swiss architect Mario Botta spent five years designing Watari-um’s building, which was his first museum project and is now known as one of his masterpieces. The striped granite and concrete facade, resembling a bird in flight over the city, has become a landmark of the Tokyo art scene.

Dining options on-site.