The collection exhibition ‘She Who Crosses the Sea / Highlight’ will be held from August 1, 2026, through February 11, 2027. It focuses on women who worked across national borders from the 20th century onward.
Works selected from recent acquisitions that correspond to the exhibition’s theme will be shown publicly for the first time. The presentation begins by looking back at the relationships between three artists who became the first generation of female painters to encounter overseas cultures and their families, then introduces works by artists who traveled from Europe and the United States to Japan and other parts of Asia.
The exhibition is organized into four chapters: ‘Together with Family,’ ‘Intersecting Gazes,’ ‘Each Their Own Route,’ and ‘The Venice Biennale as a Stage.’ Among the works on view are Fujio Yoshida’s ‘Venice, Italy: Doge’s Palace’ from 1906, Helen Hyde’s ‘Katakoto’ from 1908, Kazuko Enomoto’s ‘Time of Memory’ from 1951, and Yuki Katsura’s ‘Flying’ from 1950.
The highlights also include René Magritte’s ‘The Museum of the King,’ which has returned from exhibition at another museum after a long interval, works by the Surrealist woman artist Meret Oppenheim, and a Yayoi Kusama work being shown publicly for the first time. The display includes Miwa Yanagi’s ‘The Guide’s Room B3’ and Magritte’s ‘The Museum of the King.’
The artists’ creations convey fresh astonishment and perspectives arising from different climates and cultures. In Japan, the postwar period brought rapid economic growth, and overseas travel was liberalized in 1964; against this background, many artists studied art abroad or traveled through countries around the world, drawing creative sustenance from those experiences.
