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 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

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:Odilon Redon, Anemones in a Black Vase, c.1905, pastel on paper, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu

11 January - 23 March, 2025

19th century was the time when the social situation changed greatly, and the technology developed rapidly. These trends affected to the Art of the same time. Odilon Redin(1840-1916) also established his own Art, and challenged to use new artistic materials and techniques. This exhibition shows Odilon Redin’s Art with his masterpieces of pastels, charcoal drawings, paintings and printings mainly from the collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu.

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.