MOT Collection: Art for Starters

The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is home to around 6,100 predominantly postwar artworks. The MOT Collection exhibitions are designed to showcase these works, and exhibits are refreshed several times a year in order to present as much of the collection as possible, from different angles.　　“Art for Starters” features a range of works—including a number of new acquisitions—chosen for their connection to “firsts and beginnings” as these play out in an art context, and explores art in terms of where to begin engaging with it, via inquiries that include starting with the familiar, what it is to see a work of art for the first time, and where artworks arise from. For both first-time visitors, and those who have already viewed multiple MOT collection exhibitions, “Art for Starters” offers an opportunity to “start art,” or perhaps, to start it anew.

Exhibition period：2026/04/28～2026/08/16
Exhibition Information

MOT Collection: Art for Starters

Related works

View of Mt. Fuji from Shimizu

An Image of Celia

Walking Past Two Chairs

Picture of Melrose Avenue in an Ornate Gold Frame [from "A Hollywood Collection"]

Picture of a Still Life That Has an Elaborate Silver Frame [from "A Hollywood Collection"]

Picture of a Portrait in a Silver Frame [from "A Hollywood Collection"]

Picture of a Landscape in an Elaborate Gold Frame [from "A Hollywood Collection"]

The Tree, November 1986

Pembroke Studio Interior

Two Pembroke Studio Chairs

A Lawn Sprinkler

Amaryllis in Vase

BOAT:S-13

BOAT:T-13

BOAT:K-13

1.25 fathom

inside of the ear

White Discharge (Built-up Objects) #4

white heat

A model of this planet

Inlet

Rising Tide

Ebb Tide

Girl with Hair Ribbon

with a white recorder, play flowers, yellow, ocher and stuff

Kitten

A Moonlight and Portrait (Star and Woman)

[Title Unknown]

Painting for summer Ⅰ-Ⅴ

Portfolio - Softly Reductives

M-S・W ZZ II-f

M-S・W ZZ II-G-1(from group a-f)

M-S・W ZZ II f III-I

Bundling of time or soundwaves

G/Z horizontal – magnetic field front view

G／Z Summer Solstice－On the Bridge Ⅳ

Falls

[Title Unknown]

[Title Unknown]

[Title Unknown]

Nude Descending a Staircase

［Documents related to NAKANISHI Natsuyuki:Tracing papers, Brushes, Easels］

[Title Unknown]

[Title Unknown]

[Title Unknown]

[Title Unknown]

[Title Unknown]

The Center of Gravity - Movement

untitled（t,p）

Untitled (na, cb)

Peace and War

Rubber Man

Bottle Ship

White Os (Car) - Forest

Landscape from a Cow's View

Couch of My Dog

Orange Line

Total Perception

Wooden Stream

Boarding Pass (London to Manchester)

Boarding Pass (Paris to Marrakech)

Crab With Hat

Pampas grassーwave

Still Life

Circular Time

Shrubbery 3

One Coil

A Continuous Plane

Mutterkuchen – 01

Chinese Hostess

Fence

Untitle

Beverage Bottles on Shelf

Bathtub Collage #2

Lento-Presto (Corridor)

Portrait of Mr. SHIRASE Kazuichiro

G／Z　Summer Solstice－On the Bridge Ⅳ