Image: Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama
The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama has announced a cluster of exhibitions ending in late summer 2026, with one print-focused show at Hayama館 running into late September and two collection presentations at Kamakura館 closing at the end of August. The institution’s exhibition page also shows that several further projects are scheduled later in the year, extending into November and beyond.
At Hayama館, ‘Yamashiro Shinji’s Potato Print Series’ is on view from May 30 to September 27, 2026. The exhibition focuses on Yamashiro Shinji’s potato-print practice, a technique he developed independently and deepened over time. According to the museum, Yamashiro, born in 1939, has also worked extensively in book design and binding. The presentation includes earlier works and a new piece, ‘Hyappōbako’, which takes up words by textile artist and essayist Fukumi Shimura, born in 1924.
The Hayama venue is also hosting a related collection display titled ‘Life in the Daily’ alongside the print exhibition. The museum’s text frames the show as part of its broader effort to place Yamashiro’s work in dialogue with selected holdings, including works by artists such as Saburō Aso, who drew subject matter from everyday life. The page identifies the exhibition as running through September 27, 2026.
At Kamakura館, two exhibitions close on August 30, 2026. One is the collection exhibition ‘The Unprecedented Light of East Germany’s Women Photographers’, which opens from June 13 and highlights 15 women photographers active in or associated with the former German Democratic Republic. The museum says the project draws mainly on the collection managed by Berlin’s Reinbeckhallen Foundation and Sven Hermann, and it examines the subtle gaze these artists turned toward society and everyday life in a country that no longer exists.
Also ending on August 30 is the collection presentation ‘Showa Art’. The museum notes that its former Kamakura building opened in 1951 in the grounds of Tsurugaoka Hachimangū Shrine and was later designed by Junzō Sakakura. The building was long known as the “Kamakura Museum of Modern Art,” or “Kamakkin,” and after its use as a museum ended it was designated an Important Cultural Property. The show marks ‘Showa 100’ by bringing together related materials from the museum’s history with key works by artists shown there during the postwar era, including Shunsuke Matsumoto, Seiji Chōkai, Kaoru Yamaguchi and Ryokichi Mukai.
The museum’s schedule also lists several later exhibitions, including ‘Tetsurō Komai: Like a Constellation Spreading on the Palm’ and ‘Twilight, Daybreak: “Shade” in Contemporary Art’ at Hayama館 from September 12 to November 15, 2026, and ‘Polish Poster 2’ at Kamakura館 from October 17, 2026, to January 31, 2027. Further projects follow in early 2027, including exhibitions devoted to Yōko Matsumoto, Marc Chagall’s ‘La Fontaine Fables’, and others across the two venues.
