TOKYO.- To mark its thirtieth anniversary, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo presents Choreographies of the Everyday. This exhibition considers how the museum can mobilize and nurture artistic practice in sustaining forms of publicness amid the shifting sociopolitical and cultural conditions of today and in the days to come.

The works of over thirty artists and collectives from multiple generations and geographies explore the dynamics between people’s agency and societal forces embedded in institutional spaces, such as the museum, homes shaped by gender norms, and urban places like Okinawa and Mumbai.

Including new commissioned works, performances, and workshops, the exhibition probes the cultural, political, and economic forces entangled in ordinary conditions, bringing to light systemic violence, inequalities, and the lasting impact of oppression. Such critical engagement by the artists illuminates gestures of resistance, solidarity, and the imaginative capacity that can bring about change.

The term “choreography” in the exhibition’s title is an invocation of the implicit mechanisms of control over people’s behavior and the agency within, against, and beyond this control to seek alternative modes of being. Choreographies of the Everyday presents wide-ranging artistic practices that are attentive to the lived experiences and affects emerging from these tensions and negotiations. The exhibition offers multiple perspectives on the conditions of contemporary life and aims to generate a space for imagination and dialogue that contributes to developing a truly pluralistic society.

Participating artists

Aoyama Satoru, Bakudapan Food Study Group, CAMP, FAMEME, Heman Chong, Jonathas de Andrade, Brenda V. Fajardo, Shilpa Gupta, Hiwa Kazuhiko, Idemitsu Mako, Imashuku Mew, Julia Sarisetiati and Ary “Jimged” Sendy, Kuroda Natsuki, An-My Lê, Sam Metz, Pinaree Sanpitak, Shubigi Rao, Ri, Rice Brewing Sisters Club, Sasaki Ken, Shinkai Kakuo, Soh Souen, Takahashi Riko, Takahashi Rin, Transfield Studio, Uehara Sayaka, Uemura Makoto, Karel van Laere, Yamada Hibiki, Yamato Kaede, and more.

Curated by Che Kyongfa, Odaka Hikari, Kwon Sanghae, Harada Mio (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo)