10th, September 10:00-20:00
11th, September 10:00-17:00
National Museum of Art, Osaka B1 Hall/ Webcast via NMAO YouTube channel

In this two-day event, made up of a series of sequential talks, everyone from the museum’s director to nearly all of the facility’s researchers have been invited to discuss their studies, past projects, and current fields of interest.

The National Museum of Art, Osaka opened in 1977 as Japan’s fourth national art museum in Expo ’70 Commemorative Park. The museum has continued operations since moving to the Nakanoshima district of Osaka in 2004.

The work conducted by the facility’s researchers helps keep the museum vibrant. In addition to studying artists, artworks, and trends, primarily in the field of contemporary art, the researchers address subjects as collection management, conservation science, education, and museology. The results of their efforts are manifested in a variety of activities at the museum, including exhibitions, collection development, conservation projects, education programs, and film screenings. In this process, a diverse range of ideas, interpretations, and specialized knowledge are derived from the researchers’ conversations, joint studies, and practical undertakings with artists, scholars and other researchers, museum staff, the general public, and others.

This summer the museum will be temporarily closed for a period of approximately two-and-a-half months while the air-conditioning system in the galleries is being updated. Although the museum will be closed, the researchers will carry on their work as usual.

Through this series of talks, featuring a host of different guests, visitors will gain insights into the information accumulated by researchers in the past and their burgeoning activities at the museum in the future.

[Program]
Akane Nakamura（Performing Arts Producer / precog co.,LTD. CEO, Executive Producer）×Atsuhiko Shima（Director, NMAO）
Tobias Berger（Head of Art, Tai Kwun Centre of Heritage and Arts）×Yuka Uematsu（Chief Curator, NMAO）
Manabu Nakanishi（Artist）×Masahiro Yasugi（Curator, NMAO）
Satoko Hayama（Curator, Yokohama Museum of Art）×Yuko Fujiyoshi（Curator, NMAO）
Masaya Chiba（Professor, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University,）×Azusa Hashimoto（Curator, NMAO）
Takumi Fukuo（Research Fellowship, JSPS/ Researcher, Critique）×Takashi Fukumoto（Curator, NMAO）
O JUN（Painter）×Ayako Ogawa（Registrar, NMAO）
Tadashi Yanai（Professor, Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo）×Shimpei Tanaka（Guest Curator, NMAO）
Haeju Kim（Artistic Director of Busan Biennale 2022）×Jung-Yeon Ma（Guest Curator, NMAO）