Festival of Francophonie in Kansai 2023 at Kobe

Tuesday, 21.03.2023 – Tuesday, 21.03.2023
Public event

The Kansai Francophonie Festival 2023 in Kobe will be held again on Tuesday March 21, 2023. It is an opportunity to discover the values and diversity of the Francophonie aimed at promoting links of friendship and solidarity as well as respect for cultural diversity.

Location: Museum Hall of the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in Kobe

Kizuki-au 築き合う－Collaborative Constructions　

Saturday, 30.07.2022 – Monday, 10.10.2022
Exhibition

Collaborative Constructions is an initiative of the Embassy of Switzerland in Japan, ETH Zurich and the University of Tokyo, in collaboration with Shimizu Corp. The project is part of Vitality.Swiss, Switzerland’s program on the road to Expo 2025 Osaka-Kansai.

Location: Yakimono sanpo michi (79, 80, 83, 84, Sakae-cho 7-chome, Tokoname city), Aichi

"Biografie: Ein Spiel" by Max Frisch

Saturday, 18.12.2021 – Sunday, 19.12.2021
Theater

The Theatre Company shelf, directed by Yasuhito Yano, will present a table reading of "Biografie: Ein Spiel" ("Biography: A Play") on 18-19 December, 2021.

Location: THE SHARE 104 Joint gallery（Harajuku）

M – The Tokyo Ballet by Maurice Béjart

Saturday, 24.10.2020 – Sunday, 25.10.2020
Japan

When the Swiss/French ballet legend Maurice Béjart set about choreographing a new ballet for the Tokyo Ballet in 1993, he chose Japanese novelist Yukiko Mishima as a motif.

Roman Signer «The Window:A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows»

Tuesday, 13.10.2020 – Monday, 11.01.2021
Japan

Roman Signer (born in 1938) is a Swiss artist active since the 1970s. He uses daily objects like kayaks or furniture to cause movement with elements such as fire, water, and wind in a humorous and sometimes absurd manner.

Location: Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa

A jewel box from Prince of Liechtenstein's collection

Friday, 18.09.2020 – Sunday, 29.11.2020
Japan

Liechtenstein is the only country in the world named after the family name of the ruling monarch. Although it is a small nation situated between Switzerland and Austria, Liechtenstein holds one of the most extensive private art collections in the world.

Location: Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima

Uriel Orlow Michikusa: Walks with the Unknown

Saturday, 29.08.2020 – Sunday, 08.11.2020
Japan

Swiss artist Uriel Orlow is known for his modular, multimedia installations that take specific locations and events as starting points and combine archival research with evocative visuals and sounds.

Location: Contemporary Art Gallery Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki

come to bauhaus! – the basis of education in art and design

Friday, 17.07.2020 – Sunday, 06.09.2020
Exhibition

The Bauhaus was a school in Germany that had a stunning impact on the 20th century art and design history.

Location: Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo

Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection -Special Section New Acquisitions: The Paul Klee Collection

Tuesday, 23.06.2020 – Sunday, 25.10.2020
Exhibition

In 2019, the Artizon Museum, the former Bridgestone Museum of Art, acquired twenty-four works by Paul Klee (1879–1940), a major Swiss artist of the first half of the twentieth century.

Location: Artizon Museum, Tokyo

"One Blue Sky" Music Exchange between Zurich and Ishigaki youth choir

Sunday, 19.04.2020 – Sunday, 19.04.2020
Concert

Thirteen Swiss students (between 7 and 16 years old) from the music school Musikschule Zürcher Oberland (MZO) will embark on a 2-week journey to the Japanese community of Ishigaki in Okinawa to perform "One Blue Sky" together with the Ishigaki Youth Choir.

Location: Ishigaki city hall, Okinawa

Swiss-Japanese Contemporary Jewelry Exhibition

Friday, 10.04.2020 – Saturday, 09.05.2020
Exhibition

[Notice] To support the official measures aimed at limiting the spread of COVID-19, the exhibition is postponed. More information: HOLE IN THE WALL

Location: HOLE IN THE WALL, Tokyo

Yann Becker solo photo exhibition "Intimacy"

Thursday, 09.04.2020 – Tuesday, 21.04.2020
Exhibition

Yann Becker, a Swiss photographer based in Japan since 2010, exhibits the photos of his own personal Japan: the places he has discovered and the people he has met.

Location: Gallery Koto, Kyoto