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Art Week Tokyo 2026
Japanese original:
アートウィーク東京 2026
Art Week Tokyo, started in 2021, is an annual event that presents Tokyo's contemporary art in Japan and abroad, and it has no main venue: this year 56 museums and galleries hold their own exhibitions, joined by AWT FOCUS, in which ten curators each organize a show at one of ten galleries, a video program and talks. From November 6 to 8 free shuttle buses link the venues, and AWT BAR in Minami-Aoyama serves as the event's information hub.
Featured in: Tokyo Anthology: November
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- Dates
- Nov 4 – Nov 8, 2026
- Venue
- AWT BAR（emergence aoyama complex） · Harajuku & Aoyama
- Address
- 東京都港区南青山5-4-30 emergence aoyama complexOpen in Google Maps
- Hours
- 10:00–22:30
- Admission
- Mostly free (museum exhibitions are paid)Original: 基本無料（美術館の展覧会は有料）
Visit planning
The calendar entry covers the whole run of the exhibition. Please check opening hours and closing days before your visit.
Entry notes
Galleries and most AWT programs are free; museum exhibitions need a ticket. A free AWT wristband, valid only on the day you get it, is handed out at AWT bus stops and AWT desks in participating museums, and shown at a museum ticket counter it gives a discount on some exhibitions. Free shuttle buses run 10:00–18:00 from November 6 to 8, and you can get on and off at any stop; AWT BAR is open 10:00–22:30 daily.
- Galleries and most AWT programs are free; museum exhibitions need a ticket. A free AWT wristband, valid only on the day you get it, is handed out at AWT bus stops and AWT desks in participating museums, and shown at a museum ticket counter it gives a discount on some exhibitions. Free shuttle buses run 10:00–18:00 from November 6 to 8, and you can get on and off at any stop; AWT BAR is open 10:00–22:30 daily. (Source: アートウィーク東京：予約・チケット購入, 2026)
From the organizer's announcements and press reports. Arrangements can change; please check the official site before your visit.
About this festival
Visiting galleries in Tokyo often means seeing one, opening a map, and taking the subway to the next. From Ginza to Roppongi, from Kiyosumi-Shirakawa to Gaienmae, the galleries are spread across the city, several stations apart.
Art Week Tokyo had a preview edition in 2021 and began in full in 2022. It is organised by the Contemporary Art Platform, an incorporated association, in partnership with Art Basel, and this year is its fifth full edition. From November 4 to 8, 55 places take part: 13 museums and institutions, 32 galleries and 10 AWT FOCUS venues. AWT FOCUS began in 2023 as "exhibitions you can buy"; this year it works with the Vienna gallery festival curated by, and curators from Japan and abroad each put on one exhibition at one of ten galleries. The director, Atsuko Ninagawa, describes it as neither an art festival nor an art fair, but an event that keeps experimenting with forms of exhibition and public engagement.
From November 6 to 8 the free AWT BUS runs six circular routes, A to F, plus a direct service between AWT BAR in Minami-Aoyama and AWT VIDEO in Otemachi; you can get on and off at any stop. Bus stops and the AWT desks at participating museums hand out a free participant wristband, and showing it at a participating museum's ticket counter brings a discount on some exhibitions.
Below, route by route, are the exhibitions at the participating museums during these days. The galleries each route passes are listed on the official bus page.
By area
6 areas · 23 exhibitions
Takebashi–Yanaka (Route A)
2 exhibitions · The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Kiyosumi-Shirakawa–Kyobashi (Route B)
5 exhibitions · Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Artizon Museum
Ginza (Route C)
3 exhibitions · CHANEL NEXUS HALL, POLA MUSEUM ANNEX, Le Forum, Ginza Maison Hermès
Roppongi–Azabu (Route D)
4 exhibitions · Mori Art Museum
Minami-Aoyama–Meguro–Ebisu (Route E)
4 exhibitions · Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
Roppongi–Aoyama–Shinjuku (Route F)
5 exhibitions · Watari Museum of Contemporary Art (Watari-um), Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
Nearby, after this one
Same neighborhood · Harajuku & Aoyama
Shows open on the same days as this one are listed first (regular closing days only).
Credits
- Organized by
- Japan Contemporary Art Platform, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Art Week Tokyo Mobile Project Organizing Committee
Knowledge cards
CuratingキュレーションCurating is the work of arranging works or objects for display and interpreting them for visitors.Read moreClose
01About
A curator is not only a person who writes labels. Tate describes curators as people who may acquire, care for and develop collections, arrange displays of collection and loaned works, and interpret them for the public. It also notes that independent curators can make exhibitions in many kinds of spaces, inside or outside established institutions and online. So when you visit, notice which works sit next to each other, how far apart they are, and what text accompanies them.
02In the gallery
Walk the exhibition twice: first follow its order, then test one different route and see what relationships appear.
03Notes
Read the exhibition's argument in the gaps and pairings between works.
This time, at Art Week Tokyo 2026 —
What connects the works that share a room with you?