Upcoming Event Information
The play "The Drover's Wife" by Leah Purcell to be presented by theatre company Haisho
20-27 July 2025
Toshima-ku, Tokyo (Theater Green, BOX in BOX THEATER)
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Adam Elliot's film "Memoirs of a Snail" in Japanese theatres
27 June 2025-
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Joshibi University of Art and Design Open Lecture: Women of Distinction: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander female artists
2025 June 2026
Suginami-ku, Tokyo (Jyoshibi Univ. Suginami Campus)
Speaker: Sophia SAMBONO, Associate Curator, Indigenous Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Australia
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Irene Entata b.1946 HERMANNSBURG POTTERS / Cows 2000 / Reelpa (Drovers) 2002 / Rubbing salts 2006 / Mission days 2005 / Earthenware, hand-built terracotta clay with underglaze colours. © Irene Mbitjana Entata/Copyright Agency
‘Seeds and sovereignty’ / Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / installation view. Photograph: Chloe Callistemon. Courtesy QAGOMA
‘Judy Watson: mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri’ / Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / installation view. Photograph: Chloe Callistemon. Courtesy QAGOMA
Exhibition 'Echoes Unveiled: Art by First Nations Women from Australia'
24 June - 21 September 2025
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (Artizon Museum)
Learning Program
27 June 15:30-16:30 18:30-19:30 Gallery Talks by Artists
Maree Clarke, Julie Gough, Yhonnie Scarce, Judy Watson
* Details will be announced on the Artizon Museum’s website at a later date.
Yhonnie SCARCE, Hollowing Earth, 2017, Hand-blown uranium glass, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation © Courtesy the Artist and THIS IS NO FANTASY
Maree CLARKE, Walert – gurn barerarerungar: Tipperary, Ireland Dunstable, Britain Yorta Yorta Trawlwoolway Boonwurrung, Mutti Mutti, Wamba Wamba, 2020-21, National Gallery of Victoria © Maree Clarke
Julie GOUGH, Some Tasmanian Aboriginal children living with non-Aboriginal people before 1840, 2008, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra © Julie Gough
Noŋgirrŋa MARAWILI (Nonggirnga MARAWILI), Bolngu, 2016, Natural ochres on bark, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation © the artist ℅ Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre
Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Tangki – Donkey, 2021, Video, Tjanpi Desert Weavers, NPY Women’s Council © Tjanpi Desert Weavers, NPY Women’s Council
Judy WATSON, red tides, 1997, Pigment and pastel on canvas, Art Gallery of New South Wales
© Judy Watson / Copyright Agency, Image © Art Gallery of New South Wales
Prof. Amanda Nettelbeck (The University of Adelaide; Visiting Professor of Australian Studies, The University of Tokyo) to speak at Workshop ‘Unresolved Histories: Indigenous Rights in Two Settler-Colonial Contexts’
21 June 2025
Fuchu, Tokyo (Institute for Global Area Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) and Online
Kalan exhibition as part of 2025 JAALA Biennial
15-21 June 2025
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
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Maria van Neerven, Sandy Greenwood, Val Smith (Widjabul Wiabal), and members of the Bundjalung Tribal Society
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Jenny Fraser (Migunburri)
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Australian Studies Association of Japan Annual Conference
14-15 June 2025
Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa (Keio University Hiyoshi Campus)
Steven McRae to perform at Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a co-production between the The Australian Ballet and the National Ballet of Japan
12-24 June 2025
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (New National Theatre Tokyo)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland© by Christopher Wheeldon
Photo by HASEGAWA Kiyonori
Australian Ballet Japan Tour 2025 "Don Quixote"
30 May-1 June 2025
Taito-ku, Tokyo (Tokyo Bunka Kaikan)
Australian Ballet Press Release
More information (the Japan Performing Arts Foundation (NBS) website)
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Ako Kondo and Chengwu Guo
Photo: Rainee Lantry
Film "Descent Into the Maelstrom" screening
14 May 2025 14:00
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo (Cinemart Shinjuku)
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Australian artists at the 24th (Public Appeal) International ART Exchange Exhibition
6 June-12 June 2025
Taito-ku, Tokyo(Tokyo Metropolitan Museum)
Sean Williams to perform at the Naviar Records event
6 May 2025
Suginami-ku, Tokyo (Knock Koenji)
Daniel McDonald's exhibition 'Invisible Dreams'
1-5 May 2025
Suginami-Ku, Tokyo(Momose Shokudo)
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Film "Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party" in Japanese theatres
25 April 2025-
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Australian films to be screened at Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2025
Online Grand Theatre: 24 April-30 June 2025
Venues in Tokyo: 28 May-11 June 2025
Nash Edgerton “CANDY BAR”
Andrew Kavanagh “This Must Be Love”
Andreas Nilsson “The Tale of Mr. Tight Ass”
Max Barden “The Comment Section”
Alexandrena Parker “Screentime”
Jasper Martin “Earwax”
Jenna Lee to show her work "A house filled with language once more" at the Setouchi Triennale 2025
18 April-25 May, 1-31 August, 3 October-9 November 2025
Tonoshocho, Shozugun, Kagawa (Karatoka)
article-particle (Guyu-Gwa)
Sizes various
Pigment jars, pages of ‘Aboriginal Words and Place Names’, fire, label
Installation view, ALT/TEXT Incinerator Gallery. Courtesy of the Artist @jenna.mlee and MARS Gallery @marsgallery
Photography by Gianna Rizzo @meaty
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Credit: AnnaKatsanevas
Works by Australian artists, Patricia Piccinini, Ron Mueck and Sam Jinks to be exhibited at the 'Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2025'
13 April-13 October 2025
Osaka, Osaka (Osaka Culturarium, Tempozan)
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Patricia Piccinini, The Comforter
© Patricia Piccinini Courtesy of Olbricht Collection and the artist
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Ron Mueck, Untitled (Man in a sheet)
© Ron Mueck Courtesy of Olbricht Collection and Anthony D'Offay, London
Photo: Joachim Fliegner, Bremen
Sam Jinks, Woman and Child
©Sam Jinks Courtesy of the artist, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney and Institute for Cultural Exchange, Tübingen
Kristian Bezuidenhout performances in Japan
2-6 April 2025
2 April Izumi Hall
3 & 5 April Toppan Hall (sold out)
6 April Mitaka City Arts Center
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Film "Better Man" by Michael Gracey in Japanese theatres
28 March 2025-
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Stuart Skelton to perform in "Parsifal" and "Missa Solemnis" as part of the Spring Festival in Tokyo
27, 30 March, 4 and 6 April 2025
Taito-ku, Tokyo (Tokyo Bunka Kaikan)
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Credit: Sim Canetty-Clarke
Pip & Pop’s installation
19 March-29 April 2025
Kurashiki, Okayama (mt factory tour/Kurashiki Ivy Square Ivy Akarenga house)
mt factory tour vol.14 (20 March-2 April)
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mt room (29 March-29 April)
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Kate Crawford to participate in Mori Art Museum's 'MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art' exhibition
13 February-8 June 2025
Minato-ku, Tokyo (Mori Art Museum)
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Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler
Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power,1500–2025
2023
Installation view: Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power,1500–2025, Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2023-2024
Photo: Piercarlo Quecchia – DSL Studio
Photo courtesy: Fondazione Prada
Film "2040" in Japanese theatres
11 January 2025 -
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Aretha Brown's mural painting
December 2024-
Nerima-ku Tokyo (on B1 floor towards Exit 3 at the Shinsakuradai station on the Seibu Yurakucho line)
Saison AIR Partnership 2023 Footscray Community Arts Exchange Project report
20 June 2024
Koko-ku, Tokyo (Morishita Studio)
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Australian Studies Association of Japan 2024 National Conference
15-16 June 2024
Matsuyama University, Himata Campus (Matsuyama, Ehime)
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Archived video
Professor Rodney Smith, University of Sydney "The 2023 Voice Referendum and Current Challenges to Australian Democracy"
English video clip
“Haiku and Australia—borderless, but placeless?”
English video clip
‘Borders and Identities: Impacts of the Covid pandemic’
English video clip
Ngioka Bunda-Heath to take part in the Saison AIR Partnership 2023 Footscray Community Arts Exchange Project
15 August-11 September 2023
Koto-ku, Tokyo (Morishita Studio) adn Sapporo, Hokkaido (Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio)
Artist Talk:
17 August 19:00-20:30 at Morishita Studio
Workshop:
28 August 19:00-21:00 at Morishita Studio
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Ngioka Bunda-Heath, Blood Quantum
Photo：Michael Jalaru Torres
What Do Aboriginal Writers Question in Australian Contemporary Literature?
The Final Volume in the Series of Masterpieces of Contemporary Australian Literature
Commemorative Forum for the Publication of "Odyssey of the Horizon" by Alexis Wright
2 June 2023
Online & Shibuya, Tokyo (Club Hillside Salon)
The Masterpieces of Australian Contemporary Literature Series
Saison AIR Partnership 2022 Footscray Community Arts Exchange Project report
25 May 2023
Koko-ku, Tokyo (Morishita Studio)/Online
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Archived video (in Japanese)
Australia-related books recently published in Japan
"Contemporary Australian Politics" edited by Hiroya Sugita
February 2025-
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"Creature" by Shaun Tan
Translated by Sawako Kishimoto, Published by Kyurudo
December 2024-
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"The Shortest History of Economics" by Andrew Leigh
Translated by Atsushi Kurowa, Published by Toyokeizaishimposha
December 2024-
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"Hiring Humanitarian Entrants as a Migrant Labour Force in Regional Australia" by Kazuhiro Onozuka
December 2024-
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"The Bookbinder of Jericho" by Pip Williams
November 2024-
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"Australian Multicultural Society and Citizenship in the Neoliberal Era" by Ritsuko Kurita
July 2024-
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"HOKARI Minoru's works Book 1 The Living Earth" and "HOKARI Minoru's works Book 2 Anti Minorities History"
April/October 2024-
April 2024- "HOKARI Minoru's works Book 1 The Living Earth"
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October 2024- "HOKARI Minoru's works Book 2 Anti Minorities History"
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Leah Purcell's "The Drover's Wife"/Alana Valentine's "Parramatta Girls" (Australian play series vol.16) translated by Keiji Sawada
February 2024-
Mayumi Kamada ed. "Jiro Muramats and his Family: Portraits of the Family Connecting Japan and Australia"
January 2024-
Archive for past publication before 2023
The Masterpieces for Australian Contemporary Literature Series