【2025 Best Exhibitions】3 Selections by Moeka Suzuki (Contemporary Art Historian) | Year-End Special Feature "2025 Review + 2026 Outlook"
Contemporary art historian Moeka Suzuki selects and discusses three of the most memorable exhibitions from 2025.Summary
Contemporary art historian Moeka Suzuki selected three exhibitions as the most memorable of 2025: "Special Feature Centered on the Collection: Opening Records, Weaving Memories" at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; "150 Years" in Higashi-Ikebukuro; and "Living in This World: 125th Anniversary Exhibition of Joshibi University of Art and Design" at Spiral Garden. Suzuki found value in the first exhibition for showcasing the potential of exhibition formats to pass on war memories through surviving documentary paintings. The second exhibition, held in buildings awaiting demolition, highlighted the quiet resonance between the city's passing time and the act of relighting a deceased grandmother's memory through Shimada Seika's artwork. Finally, the Joshibi University anniversary exhibition was seen as a hopeful space to reconsider the significance of art education specifically for women in the current era where the framework of "woman" itself is being questioned.
(Source：Tokyo Art Beat)