Hiroshima Museum of Art

image：Henri FANTIN-LATOUR, Still Life (Flowers, Fruits, Wineglass, and Tea Cup), 1865, Oil on canvas, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

13 December, 2025 – 22 March, 2026
Closed: 29 December - 2 January
9:00–17:00 (last admission at 16:30)

There are many kinds of meanings and using of white in paintings. At first glance, white in paintings shows us the only white color, but at closer look, it looks us various materials and gives us many different impressions. Often overlooked compared to other colors, White is the most important color as motifs like the snow, the clouds, the dishes, clothes, or as Artists’ supplies. So from the ancient times, many artists around the word have tried to express “White” by their own way and sensitivity. This exhibition focuses the secret of that various expressions of white in paintings, showing Western paintings, Japanese Western-style paintings, Japanese-style paintings, Western Prints, Japanese Prints (Ukiyo-e).

Image:Albert Marquet, "Le Havre, le bassin" 1906, oil on canvas, Musée d'art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre
©MuMa Le Havre / Charles Maslard

11 April - 31 May, 2026
Open daily during the exhibition.
9:00–17:00 (last admission at 16:30)

This exhibition celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Albert Marquet (1875–1947), a major figure in twentieth-century French painting. Marquet worked alongside Henri Matisse and other artists as part of the Fauvist movement, and later traveled widely in France and abroad. Throughout his career, he continued to paint everyday scenes of rivers and waterfronts, including the Seine and various ports, with a calm and poetic sensibility.This exhibition marks Marquet’s first solo show in Japan in 35 years. Featuring approximately 90 works—oil paintings, pastels, and drawings—borrowed from leading museums in Japan and France as well as private collections, it introduces the development of Marquet’s style and the distinctive appeal of his work from multiple perspectives.

Image: “flopear” 2006, artwork for printing
© Mercis bv

11 July - 8 September, 2026
Open daily during the exhibition.
9:00–17:00 (last admission at 16:30)

This exhibition celebrates the 70th anniversary of Miffy (Usako-chan), which reached this milestone in 2025. On display are approximately 200 original works, including drawings and sketches from all 32 Miffy picture books. Highlights include the original artwork for Miffy Goes to Stay (1988) and Dear Grandma Bunny (1996), both of which will be shown in Japan for the first time. Through stories, characters, words, colors, lines, and composition, the exhibition invites visitors to explore Miffy from many different perspectives and to discover new reasons to enjoy and love her even more.

Image:Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, “Tournée du Chat Noir de Rodolphe Salis [Tour of Rodolphe Salis’ Chat Noir]”, 1896 Museum and Archives, Kyoto Institute of Technology AN.4829

3 October, 2026 - 11 January, 2027
Closed: 16 November and 29 December, 2026 - 2 January, 2027
9:00–17:00 (last admission at 16:30)

In the late 19th century, many cafés and cabarets sprang up in succession at Montmartre district in Paris. They served not only as places to eat and drink, but also as gathering spots for artists and centers for cultural expression. This exhibition marks the first special exhibition jointly organized by the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo and the Hiroshima Museum of Art. Centered on works from both collections and featuring pieces on loan from museums in Japan and abroad, it explores the interactions among artists from the 19th to the 20th century, the artistic movements born from these exchanges, and their rich achievements.

Image: "Iso Unikko" Maija Isola 1964/2023
© Marimekko Oyj Suomi-Finland Maija Isola 1964 /2023

30 January – 28 March, 2027
Open daily during the exhibition.
9:00–17:00 (last admission at 16:30)

Marimekko is a Finnish design house founded in 1951. They have continuously pursued their unique vision: a mission to bring colour, joy, and a positive mindset to people's everyday lives.
Guided by the words of its founder, Armi Ratia, the exhibition explores Marimekko’s art of printmaking and creative aesthetic from multiple angles and guides the visitors through the world of Marimekko. The exhibition features a diverse collection of dresses from varied decades, artworks, and printed textiles.

Image：Kuniyoshi Utagawa, Cats Enjoying the Evening Cool, S. WATANABE Color Print Co.

26 April - 22 June, 2025

In Japan, cats started to appear in various paintings and ukiyo-e woodblock prints during the Edo period (1603-1868) when they became popular as pets among the common people. Present exhibition through the cat-themed works of ukiyo-e woodblock prints by cat lover Kuniyoshi Utagawa and others focuses on the history and habitual feline behavior, as well as the relationship between cats and humans, trying to show that cats are not just “cute” but to explore the profundity of the society that has cats in it. The exhibition introduces the charms of cats with a lot of cat love, including cat common things that cat lovers will find irresistible.

image：「IMAGINARIUM」（2022）🄫junaida

5 July - 31 August, 2025

The painter junaida (b. 1978) has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years for picture books such as Michi, “…no..”, MONSTARIUM(all published by Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers, Inc.). The artist’s meticulously detailed figures and backgrounds are part of a mysterious realm with European overtones. The books are highly acclaimed for their wondrous worldviews in which light and darkness dwell together among brilliant colors. Here, junaida, who continuously embarks on new adventures, presents his first major solo exhibition, which is also scheduled to travel. Enjoy immersing yourself in this imaginary world as you encounter more than 400 works.

image：Rey Camoy, Church, 1976, oil on canvas, Kasama Nichido Museum of Art

13 September - 3 November, 2025

Rey Camoy (1928-85) is one of Japanese Western-style painters and known as a unique painter in Japan after World War II. He painted many Self-Portraits, and also painted many Portraits of a drunken man, an old man and a young lady by his original dark colors and techniques. But in fact, the most important thing which he would like to express was not the shapes or the appearances, but the hearts and the inners. This exhibition shows the inner meanings in Camoy’s art with some sections by separating his theme, Self-Portrait, A Drunken Man, Woman and Church, the Illustration of the Book.