Roppongi’s MUCA Exhibition Features Banksy, KAWS and More

Commemorating the 65th anniversary of TV Asahi, “MUCA Exhibition ICONS of Urban Art ~From Banksy to Cowes~” will be held at Mori Arts Center Gallery in Roppongi, Tokyo, from Friday, March 15, as a traveling exhibition following those in Oita and Kyoto.

Urban art” has been a genre of art that has crossed all boundaries of language, culture, religion, and place of origin to raise issues of social injustice, capitalist inequality, and racial discrimination in the world’s cities. The Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art (MUCA) in Munich, Germany, houses works by urban art and contemporary artists from the 20th and 21st centuries.

The exhibition spotlights 10 artists from MUCA’s collection, including BANKSY, KAWS, INVADER, Barry McGee, and others, who have pioneered the genre of urban art, in which art is painted on walls, buildings, streets, bridges, and other public urban spaces, sometimes with a political or social message. The exhibition will spotlight 10 artists who have pioneered the genre of urban art, which sometimes appeals to political and social messages by painting on walls, buildings, streets, bridges, and other public urban spaces.

Also on view for the first time in Japan is BANKSY’s “Girl Without Balloon,” a work that made headlines in 2018 when it was partially shredded by a shredder installed in a frame after being sold at an auction event at Sotheby’s. The Tokyo exhibition will also include the first public showing of BANKSY’s work in Japan.

MUCA ICONS of Urban Art~From Banksy to KAWS~

Dates: Friday, March 15, 2024 – Sunday, June 2, 2024
Hours: Sunday – Thursday, 10:00 – 19:00 (last admission 18:30); Friday, Saturday, national holidays, days before holidays, and Golden Week (April 27 – May 6): until 20:00 (last admission 19:30)
Venue: Mori Arts Center Gallery
Location: 52F Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Organizer: ICONS of Urban Art Tokyo Production Committee
Official website: https://www.mucaexhibition.jp/