Events held prior to the opening of the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka2019
Overview
Before it opened in 2022, the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office (formerly known as the Osaka City Museum of Modern Art Planning Office) regularly presented artworks that it had collected in the form of collection exhibitions.
In addition to collection exhibitions, the planning office held a range of other kinds of exhibitions with the aim of promoting the spread of art in general. While the planning office was in operation, it held over sixty exhibitions, with admissions exceeding 1.3 million. It also actively engaged in education and outreach, holding briefings related to exhibitions and other events for the purpose of familiarizing a greater number of people with contemporary and modern art.
* The Osaka City Museum of Modern Art Planning Office was the former name of the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office.
* Honorific titles of speakers etc. are omitted.
* Names marked with an asterisk indicate Osaka City Museum of Modern Art Planning Office curators.
2019
| Date | February 2, 2019 |
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| Venue | Osaka Municipal Central Library |
| Speakers | Takayanagi Yukiko* |
| Organizers | Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office, Osaka Municipal Central Library |
Project meeting: “The memories and future of Nakanoshima—Urban spaces described in the archives”
| Date | March 2, 2019 |
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| Venue | Art Area B1 |
| Speakers | Kana Koichi, Endo Katsuhiko, Ueki Keiko* |
| Moderator | Kinoshita Chieko |
| Organizers | Art Area B1 steering committee (Osaka University, NPO Dance Box, Keihan Holdings), Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office |
“Museum Archive Workshop” (Part 1)
| Date | March 8, 2019 |
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| Venue | Kobe Planet Film Archive |
| Speakers | Tochigi Akira, Yasui Yoshio, Nohara Akane, Matsuyama Hitomi*, and others |
| Organizers | Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office, Kobe Film Preservation Network (Agency for Cultural Affairs FY2018 Project to Support Art Museums and History Museums in Priority Areas) |
Industrial Design Archive Project Symposium: “Creativity that can give birth to an era”
| Date | March 8, 2019 |
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| Venue | Josho Hall, OIT Umeda Tower, Umeda Campus, Osaka Institute of Technology |
| Speakers | Idei Nobuyuki (guest speaker), Miyagishi Yukimasa, Sugaya Tomio* |
| Organizers | Osaka Institute of Technology, Industrial Design Archives Conference, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office |
| Date | September 21-October 6, 2019 |
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| Venue | Art Area B1 |
| Organizer | Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office |
| Co-organizer | Art Area B1 |
| Related event | Curator talk (September 21) |
Special lecture in celebration of the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage & video screening of “Come to Life! Rediscovering Osaka through the Moving Image”
| Date | October 26-27, 2019 |
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| Venue | Osaka Museum of History |
| Organizers | Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office, Osaka Museum of History, Museum Revitalization Executive Committee |
| Speakers | Ogura Tetsuya, Tanaka Shimpei, Tawara Kazuma, Torikai Ryo, Funakoshi Mikio, Makiya Tsutomu, Matsumoto Akinobu, Matsuyama Hitomi* |
Tour of the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka construction site (Open House Osaka program)
| Date | October 27, 2019 |
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“Creating and communicating design—Life/creation/products”
| Date | November 25, 2019 |
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| Venue | First floor foyer, Umeda Campus, Osaka Institute of Technology |
| Organizers | Osaka Institute of Technology, Industrial Design Archives Conference, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka Planning Office, Panasonic Museum |
| Speakers | Tatsumi Masakazu (special presentation), Kawahara Yoko, and others |