This exhibition, produced by Mika Ninagawa and the creative team EiM (AIM), consisting of specialists from various fields, is the largest solo exhibition by Ninagawa ever held in the Kansai region. It is an event that can be enjoyed not only by visitors to Kyoto but also by local residents.

Recommended: Attend the Event in a Kimono!

This event is full of great photo spots, making it perfect for wearing a kimono!
If you’re worried about returning your kimono in time because you want to enjoy the event until late at night, Yume Yakata offers next-day and delivery returns. (For same-day returns, please return by 5:30 PM.)

Enjoy the Event Until Late with Next-Day or Delivery Return!

While kimono rentals are usually due for return by 5:30 PM on the same day, if you make a reservation for your visit after 12:00 PM, you can return it the next day (between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM) free of charge. Alternatively, you can return it via hotel or convenience store delivery for a fee of 880 yen.
Take your time and fully enjoy the Mika Ninagawa Exhibition with EiM: Light of the Other Shore, Shadow of This Shore.
Return Fees:

【For visits between 9:00 AM and 11:30 AM:】
Next-day return: 1,100 yen → 550 yen
Next-day delivery return: 1,980 yen → 1,430 yen

【For visits between 12:00 PM and 4:00 PM:】
Next-day return: 1,100 yen → Free
Next-day delivery return: 1,980 yen → 880 yen

Light and shadow are used to create an immersive picture scroll-like experience as unique as each as each visitor

The Yumeyakata staff actually went there!

Highlights of the Exhibition 1：Breathing of Lives

Taking as its theme the “breathing of lives” that can be felt in the city, this work invites the viewers to enter a space between reality and the other world.
Throughout the exhibition, in addition to the urban motifs that have been the subjects of Ninagawa’s work to date, a number of distinctive Kyoto scenes are incorporated into the images, creating an experience that resonates more deeply with the context of the place.

Highlights of the Exhibition 2：Flowers of the Beyond

More than 4,000 flowers of the beyond are woven together to create a space steeped in deep red that completely envelopes visitors. Visitors find themselves suddenly plunged into a completely deep red space, a dramatic shift in color that signals an entrance into the beyond, which works together with the flowers as a symbol of the beyond to evoke emotions in the visitors.

Highlights of the Exhibition 3：Whispers of Light, Dreams of Color

As they enter this space, visitors bring with them enough movement of air to gently move the roughly 1,500 strands of crystal garlands hung throughout, with a diversity of lights dancing all around as the crystals quietly sway. From a distance, these strands resemble some colonial life form shining with a myriad of different lights, but from up close visitors will discover that they are strings of imitation gemstones in all kinds of shapes, from crystals and butterflies to hearts, eyeballs, and cut gems.

Highlights of the Exhibition 4：Silence Between Glimmers

Six wall-size glass panels, half featuring photographs of a field of flowers, butterflies, wisteria flowers, cherry blossoms, and an underwater scene, all woven of light and shadow, and half with pearlescent filters, are arranged in pairs. As visitors enter the space, light is cast onto them through these pearlescent panels, which creates a sensation that the entire space is gently swaying. The light that shines through these glass panels symbolizes memory, emotion, and the passage of time. More than just something to look at, this space lets visitors undertake a journey into the deepest parts of themselves that can be illuminated by this light.

Highlights of the Exhibition 5：Dreams of the beyond in the abyss

One of the highlights of the exhibition, the abyss consists of two spaces: one that moves through a hellish landscape, and another, full of artificial flowers, to contain the other. In the outer space, visitors can suddenly a plethora of flowers in bloom from within the abyss, creating a world that resembles both the depths of the underworld and the living world above at the same time. The overall effect is the construction of a dream-like vision of the beyond that visitors become a part of by being in the space.

Event Schedule & Access

Dates & Hours

January 11, 2025 (Sat) – March 30, 2025 (Sun)

Opening Hours: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Last Entry: 5:30 PM)

Extended Hours:
※March 1 (Sat) & March 2 (Sun), March 8 (Sat) & March 9 (Sun), March 15 (Sat) & March 16 (Sun): 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Last Entry: 5:30 PM)
※March 20 (Thu, Holiday) – March 27 (Thu) & March 29 (Sat) – March 30 (Sun): 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM (Last Entry: 6:30 PM)
※March 28 (Thu, Holiday): 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Last Entry: 5:30 PM)

Closed on Mondays (except public holiday).
Organizer：NINAGAWA Mika with EiM: Lights of the beyond, Shadows of this world Executive Committee
Collaborator：LEDTOKYO

Details

Access

Venue: Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Higashiyama Cube
Address: 124 Enshoji-cho, Okazaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8344, Japan

Directions:
Take a bus from “Gojo Takakura” bus stop in front of Yume Yakata Gojo Store
Get off at “Okazaki Park, Art Museum/Heian Shrine Front”
Walk for 2 minutes (Total travel time: approx. 20 minutes)

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Contact Us

Feel free to contact us by phone or through the inquiry form.
※For inquiries regarding the exhibition, please contact the Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art or the Mika Ninagawa Exhibition with EiM: Light of the Other Shore, Shadow of This Shore Executive Committee directly.

075-354-9110