MOT Collection: Art for Starters
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is home to around 6,100 predominantly postwar artworks. The MOT Collection exhibitions are designed to showcase these works, and exhibits are refreshed several times a year in order to present as much of the collection as possible, from different angles.
“Art for Starters” features a range of works—including a number of new acquisitions—chosen for their connection to “firsts and beginnings” as these play out in an art context, and explores art in terms of where to begin engaging with it, via inquiries that include starting with the familiar, what it is to see a work of art for the first time, and where artworks arise from. For both first-time visitors, and those who have already viewed multiple MOT collection exhibitions, “Art for Starters” offers an opportunity to “start art,” or perhaps, to start it anew.
USUI Ryohei, Fence, 2024/2026 [detail]
Photo: Kazuo Fukunaga
NAGAI Tomoko, with a white recorder, play flowers, yellow, ocher and stuff, 2007
ITO Makoto, BOAT:K-13, 2013
Photo: Ken Kato
ISHIDA Takashi, UNASAKA, 2007
Photo: Shizune Shiigi
Artists
ISHIDA Takashi, ITO Makoto, USUI Ryohei, Oscar OIWA, OKAZAKI Kenjiro, KANEUJI Teppei, KOBAYASHI Masato, SATOH Keijiro, SHIRAKAWA Yoshio, SUTO Yukiko, TEZUKA Aiko, TERAUCHI Yoko, NAGAI Tomoko, NAKANISHI Natsuyuki, YAGI Lyota, David HOCKNEY, Roy LICHTENSTEIN, Gabriel OROZCO, Tom WESSELMANN and more
KANEUJI Teppei, white heat, 1997-2009/2013
Photo: Shizune Shiigi
SHIRAKAWA Yoshio, Tomoko & Light, 2014
Photo: Keizo Kioku
Oscar OIWA, Peace and War, 2001
Photo: Shizune Shiigi
NAKANISHI Natsuyuki, G/Z Summer Solstice – On the Bridge Ⅳ, 1993
©NATSUYUKI NAKANISHI
Information
- Exhibition Period
Tuesday, April 28 – Sunday, August 16, 2026
- Closed
Mondays (except May 4 and July 20), May 7 and July 21
- Opening Hours
10 AM – 6 PM (Tickets available until 30 minutes before closing)
*Open until 9 PM on August 7 and 14- Admission
Adults – 500 yen / University & College Students – 400 yen / High School Students, Over 65 – 250 yen / Junior High School Students & Younger – free
* Tickets for the "mission∞infinity | space + quantum + art,""Eric Carle: Art, Books, and the Caterpillar," and "(UN)KNOWN HIROKO KOSHINO" include admission to the “MOT Collection” exhibition.
* Children younger than elementary school age need to be accompanied by a guardian.
* Persons with a Physical Disability Certificate, Intellectual Disability Certificate, Intellectual Disability Welfare Certificate, or Atomic Bomb Survivor Welfare Certificate as well as up to two attendants are admitted free of charge.
[Silver Day]
Those over 65 receive free admission on the third Wednesday of every month by presenting proof of age at the ticket counter.
[Family Day]
Guardians of children under 18 receive half-off admission on the third weekend (Sat/Sun) of every month. (Up to two visitors/Please present proof of Tokyo residence)- Venue
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Collection Gallery
- Organized by
Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo operated by Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture