The National Museum of Art, Osaka opened in 1977in Expo '70 Commemorative Park, and relocated to its current site in Nakanoshima, a district in the center of Osaka, in 2004. This year, our 35th anniversary, we make use of the entire facility to present some 350 works by approximately 150 artists from the museum's collection of over 6,300 items. In the first section of the two-part exhibition (on the B2 floor), we will introduce a wide range of contemporary art from the 20th and 21st century by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio Morandi, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Yayoi Kusama, and Yoshitomo Nara.

In the second section (on the B3 floor), we will present an exhibition of contemporary photography based on works that the museum has acquired since the mid-'90s. Consisting of a diverse selection of works from both Japan and abroad, the event will include noted German photographers such as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Thomas Struth, and Wolfgang Tillmans as well as others like Vik Muniz, Loretta Lux, Boris Mikhailov, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Yasumasa Morimura, Naoya Hatakeyama, Yuki　Onodera, Miwa Yanagi, and Tomoko Yoneda.