Image: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art will present a limited-period collection exhibition beginning August 1, featuring Miyajima Tatsuo’s 'Death of Time' in the museum’s underground Museum Studio. The museum announced that the work, an installation made for Hiroshima, will be shown as part of 'Collection Exhibition 2026-Ⅰ', with admission free.
According to the museum’s announcement, the presentation focuses on a piece first unveiled in the Museum Studio in 1990. Miyajima, known for works that use digital counters, created 'Death of Time' as an installation for Hiroshima, and the upcoming display returns the work to the same space where it was originally presented. The museum described the exhibition as a limited-time display rather than a full-scale monographic show.
The notice places the work within the museum’s collection programming for 2026 and identifies the Museum Studio on the building’s basement level as the venue. No additional works or accompanying artist projects were specified in the announcement, which centers on the single installation and its historical link to the museum.
Miyajima is one of Japan’s best-known contemporary artists, and the use of digital counters has been a defining element of his practice. In this case, the museum’s announcement emphasizes the relationship between the work and Hiroshima, underscoring its origin as an installation made for the city and first shown at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art in 1990.
'Collection Exhibition 2026-Ⅰ' opens on August 1 at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art’s Museum Studio. The museum states that the presentation is free to enter.
