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Past exhibitions

Natori Shunsen (1886–1960): Kabuki actor Bandō Shūchō III as dancer Shizuka Gozen in the play “Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees”. Japan, Taishō period, 1925. Polychrome woodblock print. — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / courtesy of Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto

Humboldt Forum
Monks and Scholars, Dancers and Courtesans
Depictions of People in Art from Japan

18.06.2025 to 01.09.2025

Takehito Koganezawa, Naked Theatre 2019, installation view at KAAT, Yokohama, Japan — Photo: Bozzo

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Takehito Koganezawa: One on Two, Two from One

24.05.2025 to 12.10.2025

Jijang Siwangdo 지장 시왕도, detail — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Jürgen Liepe CC BY-SA 4.0

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Going Through Hell
Concepts of the Afterlife in Korea During the Goryeo Period (918–1392)

24.04.2025 to October 2025

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Lilies, detail, from the series „Big Flowers“, Edo period, ca. 1833. Polychrome woodblock print — Photo credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / courtesy Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto

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Elegant Blossoms
Flora and fauna in Arts of Japan

26.03.2025 to 09.06.2025

Signed Shen Zhou (1427 – 1509), Crossing the river in wind and rain, detail of a handscroll, Qing dynasty (1644 – 1911), 19th c. ? — Image credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst

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Jinshixue: The Study of Ancient Artifacts and the Material Residues of the Past, Part 2

12.03.2025 to 15.09.2025

Kano Sansetsu (1589–1651), Bird on a snow-covered branch of a plum tree, detail, Japan, Edo period, first half of the 17th century, hanging scroll, ink on paper — Photo credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Klaus F. and Yoshie Naumann Collection / Jürgen Liepe

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Tranquillity, Reduction and Monochrome in Arts of Japan

18.12.2024 to 10.03.2025

Su-Ran Sichling, Scholars’ stones (1950), (1950), (1970), 2015, detail, exposed aggregate concrete, terrazzo, walnut, brass, gum — © Su-Ran Sichling / Photo: Robert Vanis

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Beyond Borders
Artistic Internationalism in East Germany

03.10.2024 to 31.03.2025

Zhao Zhiqian (1829 – 1884), Calligraphy, Qing dynasty (1644 – 1911), dated 1865, folding fan — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst

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Jinshixue: The Study of Ancient Artifacts and the Material Residues of the Past, Part 1

18.09.2024 to 10.03.2025

Mio Okido, Facial Facade, 2024, print on cloth — © Mio Okido

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Mio Okido
Remembered Images, Imagined (Hi)Stories – Japan, East Asia and I

14.09.2024 to 03.02.2025