Image: Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
MOMAS Collection is on view at The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama from 5 September through 29 November 2026. Held in the museum’s first-floor exhibition rooms, the presentation includes the feature ‘Hiroya Hori: Practice from Zero’ and a selection introducing highlights from the MOMAS Collection, including Chagall and other artists.
The Hori feature traces the artist’s production from the late 1960s to around 2000, incorporating newly acquired paintings. Born in 1947, Hori began his artistic activity by fundamentally questioning art and its institutions. Works listed for the presentation include ‘鑑賞を拒否する’ (1969; remade in 1992), ‘4本のクレヨン’ (1973), and ‘波光13’ (1994). Fernand Léger’s ‘Birthday’, from around 1950, is also included in the exhibition’s works list.
The museum has used the designation MOMAS Collection in place of “permanent exhibition” since the 2008 fiscal year. Since the 2002 fiscal year, its permanent exhibitions have presented programmes centred on works in the museum’s holdings, as well as works borrowed from outside the institution and works shown with the cooperation of living artists.
An artist talk connected with ‘Hiroya Hori: Practice from Zero’ will take place on 25 October, from 3 to 4:30 pm, in the second-floor auditorium. Hori will speak about the exhibited works and the circumstances of their period. Itsuru Hirano, a museum curator, will act as interlocutor. The event is free, with capacity limited to 80 people on a first-come, first-served basis on the day.
Two collection talks are also scheduled. On 31 October, from 3 to 3:30 pm, curator Yu Shinohara will discuss Gerrit Thomas Rietveld’s ‘Zig-Zag’, designed in 1932–33 and put into production in 1935. The talk will be held in the first-floor atrium area. On 14 November, also from 3 to 3:30 pm, curator Ayaki Saeki will address Kiyoshi Hasegawa’s 1934 work ‘Two Anemones’ in the first-floor exhibition rooms. Both collection talks are free.
The exhibition is open from 10 am to 5:30 pm, with entry to the galleries until 5 pm. The museum is ordinarily closed on Mondays, but will remain open on 21 September, 12 October, 9 November and 23 November. Admission is ¥200 for adults and ¥100 for university and high-school students, with reduced rates for groups of 20 or more. Visitors of junior-high-school age or younger, as well as disability-certificate holders and one accompanying person, are admitted free.
