Ecology, an Urgent Artistic Challenge

Humanity's impact on our planet since the Industrial Revolution is said to match that of the previous thousands of years of geological change. The environmental crisis is a challenge of the utmost urgency, and right now a major issue on the international art scene. The exhibition will also review the art produced and presented in Japan from the 1950s to the 1970s, when pollution was a dark negative aspect of the country's rapid economic growth, in an attempt to reconsider today's environmental problems from a Japanese point of view. Contemplating how contemporary art and artists have engaged with environmental issues to date and how they may do so in the future, Our Ecology aims to explore the possibilities left for a sustainable future on a global scale.