"Tate Museum Turner Exhibition" Opens at the National Museum of Western Art: Works Displayed Alongside Contemporary Art by Eliasson, Tillmans, and Others Across 200 Years
An exhibition of about 80 Turner works from Tate's collection opens at the National Museum of Western Art, displayed alongside contemporary art.Summary
The exhibition "Tate Museum Turner Exhibition: The Sublime Painting, Dialogue with Contemporary Art" has opened at the National Museum of Western Art in Ueno, Tokyo, running until February 21, 2027. Drawing on the world's largest Turner collection at Tate in London, this major retrospective presents over 80 oil and watercolor works by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851), who captured shifting light and atmosphere, stormy seas, and skies with both precision and near-abstraction. The venue comprises nine rooms—a prologue, seven chapters, and a "Color Experiments" section—with Turner's works arranged thematically and chronologically. Each room also features contemporary works by Katie Paterson, Olafur Eliasson, Wolfgang Tillmans, and others, allowing visitors to compare works from different eras. Jun Shindo, chief researcher at the National Museum of Western Art who organized the exhibition, explained that placing classical and contemporary works together follows a method pioneered by Tate Modern's permanent collection displays, and that this exhibition explores how that approach can work within this museum's spaces. After Tokyo, the exhibition travels to the Osaka Nakanoshima Museum of Art (March 13–June 27, 2027).
(Source：Tokyo Art Beat)