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TOP 30th anniversary　TOP Collection: transphysical

Jul. 3—Sep. 21, 2025

• Jul. 3—Sep. 21, 2025
• Closed Mondays (except when Monday falls on a holiday, in which case the museum is open and closed the following day)
• Admission：Adults ￥700(560)／College Students ￥560(440)／High School Students, Over 65 ￥350(280) *Prices in parenthesis apply to groups of 20 or more. (Reservation is required.) *Free for junior high school students or younger, and holders of Japan’s disability identification cards (shogaisha techo) together with two caregiver. *Those over 65 years old receive free admission on the third Wednesday of every month by presenting proof of age at the ticket counter.

The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum is pleased to present the TOP Collection exhibition marking the 30th anniversary of the museum’s opening. Co-curated by four curators in an omnibus format, the exhibition offers a multifaceted selection from the museum’s collection, conveying the richness and variety of photography and the moving image. The exhibition’s title, transphysical, combines the word “physical,” relating to material and the body, with the prefix “trans,” which suggests movement or transformation from one form or state to another. It explores both the physicality of photographs as objects and the bodily expression of both subjects and artists. Marking the museum’s 30th anniversary, this exhibition offers new perspectives on works from the collection and invites viewers to reflect on the complex, multilayered processes through which images come into being. In an era of accelerating digitization, these carefully selected works offer a striking counterpoint, prompting fresh reflection on the nature of photography and the moving image. In today’s world, where digital technologies are rapidly advancing and the boundaries between the real and the virtual are increasingly fluid, the way we engage with artworks as physical objects may be on the brink of change. We hope that your encounter with these works, experienced here and now through your own physical being, makes an impression that becomes a lasting memory.

[Room 1] Photography and Painting (curated by Endo Miyuki)


Louis Ducos du Hauron, Landscape of Agen, with Tree and Stream, 1877, Héliochromie


[Room 2] dance (curated by Yamazaki Kaho)


Yamashiro Chikako, Okinawa Graveyard Club from the Graveyard Series, 2004, Single-channel video, sound


[Room 3] COLORS (curated by all four curators)


Yasumura Takashi, Rubber Glo es and a Stick for Stirring Hot Water from the series Domestic Scandals, 1999, Chromogenic print


Onodera Yuki, No.CO-2 from the series 12 Speed, 2008, Ink-jet print


[Room 4] Constructed Realities (curated by Chiu Yu-Hsuan)


Morimura Yasumasa, Theater of Creativity / Self-portrait as Yves Klein from the series A Requiem, 2010, Gelatin silver print


[Room 5] Encountering the Vintage (curated by Ishida Tetsuro)


Ansel Adams, Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, California, 1960( printed later), Gelatin silver print ©The Adams Publishing Rights Trust.

All images are Collection of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.

Exhibiting Artists|
Ansel Adams, Eugène Atget, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Louis Ducos du Hauron, William Eggleston, Robert Mapplethorpe, Erwin Olaf, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Chen Wei, Ishihara Tomoaki, Idemitsu Mako, Imai Hisae, Iwane Ai, Ei-Q, exonemo, Onodera Yuki, Kawauchi Rinko, Komoto Akira, Koyama Hotaro, Suzuki Nozomi, Taguchi Kazuna, Tawada Yuki, Tomatsu Shomei, Naito Masatoshi, Nomura Sakiko, Hamada Ryo, Hosokura Mayumi, Morimura Yasumasa, Yasumura Takashi, Yamazawa Eiko, Yamashiro Chikako, Yamamoto Tadasu, and more

*The schedule is subject to change. Any further changes will be announced.

Organized by Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)