The art and culture of Japan are often regarded as mere extensions to those of the mainland, and China in particular.

The beauty and artistry of the historical Japanese ‘shell matching’ game kai-awase is celebrated in a new exhibition at the centre of which is a contemporary 720-piece set commissioned by…

During the first half of the twentieth century Japan’s traditional art and aesthetics interacted with European life and culture, resulting in a pulsating era of Japanese modernism and the creation…

Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Japan has been admired globally for unique artistic traditions and sophisticated visual design.

The ninetieth birthday of a great artist or craftsman is occasion enough for celebration.

This exhibition forms part of the Gallery’s long term program of exhibitions and publications intended to provide a systematic documentation of the history of Australian studio pottery.

For tens of thousands of years, artists have been enamoured with the kangaroo, with the oldest known depiction dated to 17,300 years ago in Balanggarra Country, in the Kimberley region….

The Arts of Asia was a 1977 travelling exhibition of NGV Collection works from China, Japan, Iran, India, Tibet, Indonesia and Thailand.

Ikenobo Ikebana: Origins of Ikebana was co-ordinated by the Ikenobo School and hosted by the National Gallery of Victoria.

In April, an exhibition of paintings by a well-known Japanese artist of Suiboku (water and ink) painting, Miss Hoozan Matsumoto, was held in the Asian Gallery.

This major international exhibition pairs the work of two of the most influential fashion designers in recent history, Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons

Oki Sato – founder and principal designer of the Japanese design studio nendo – conceived House for Escher for NGV’s 2018 exhibition Escher X nendo | Between Two W

About Kimono designs and Japanese style have inspired global art, design and fashion since Japan re-opened to the world in the mid nineteenth-century.

To fully experience Kusama’s infinity rooms, small groups of people are admitted at a time to some spaces. Please allow some waiting time to enjoy these environments.

Takahiro Iwasaki is recognized as one of Japan’s new generation of emerging young artists, who creates intricately detailed models that reinterpret contemporary cityscapes and iconic historic buildings. The Reflection Model series focuses on seven of Japan’s most sacred buildings that all have an intimate visual relationship with the reflections they cast in the water that surrounds them.

Commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria, the third and largest work in the Reflection Model series takes as its subject the Shinto shrine of Itsukushima, located on the tidal flats of Japan’s Inlan