Australian Embassy
Tokyo
Japan

Upcoming events

 

Upcoming Event Information

 

"Australian fair 2025" at Saitama children's Zoo 

25-26 October 2025
Matsuyama, Saitama (Saitama children's Zoo)

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Newest work by Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr, and Steve Berrick "PROJECT MRT—Natureless Solution"

11 October 2025 — 23 February 2026
Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM])

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Back to Back Theatre to present "Multiple Bad Things" at KYOTO EXPERIMENT2025

4-5 October 2025
Kyoto, Kyoto (ROHM Theatre Kyoto, South Hall)

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Photo by Jeff Busby

 

Chill Friday Sessions with Luke

26 September 2025
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (Single O Kanda Awaji)

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Bus Stop Films & Unstereotype Alliance - Celebrating Inclusive Filmmaking 

25 September 2025
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (United Nations University)

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Australia House Rice Harvesting Experience 2025

23 September 2025
Tokamachi-city, Niigata Prefecture (Australia House)
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Aretha Brown pop up exhibition ‘Bedazzles’

20-21 September 2025
Sumida-ku, Tokyo (Single O Ryogoku)

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Slow Art Collective at the Chiba City Arts Triennale 2025

19 September-24 November 2025
Chiba, Chiba (Chiba Urban Monorail Chiba station 2F)

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Credit: TADA (YUKAI)

 

AUSTRALIAN SONGBOOK -JAZZ AND WINE-

19-20 September 2025
Minato-ku, Tokyo (BAROOM)

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"Language in Country: Uncovering Indigenous Stories Through Art"
Art for Breakfast with Robert Andrew

16 September 2025
Minato-ku, Tokyo (International House of Japan and online)

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Robert Andrew, A connective reveal—nainmurra guuruburrii dhaura, 2022–ongoing, commissioned by the National 
Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra for the 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony, created in consultation with Dr Matilda House and Paul Girrawah House, Ngambri Ngunnawal Traditional Custodians. 
Image courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Meeanjin, Brisbane. ©the artist

 

Australian artists, Wendy Hubert, Yasmin Smith, Robert Andrew, at Aichi Triennale 2025

13 September-30 November 2025
Nagoya and Seto, Aichi (Aichi Arts Center, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum and Seto City)

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Wendy Hubert 
"Yindjibarndi Landscape" 2024

 


Yasmin Smith
"FOREST" 2022
Photo: THE COMMERCIAL, SYDNEY
Courtesy of the artist and THE COMMERCIAL, SYDNEY.

 

Robert Andrew
"Presence" 2019
Installation view: ‘Presence’ IMA Belltower. Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.

 

 Dean Bowen Australia: Land, Sky, Birds and Creatures

12 Sep - 3 November 2025
Hachioji City, Tokyo (Hachioji City Yume Museum)

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Masaaki Aihara Photo Exhibition On The Earth

6 Sep - 26 Oct 
Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture(Musee Fukuoka Camera)

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Australian boats on display at the “Humans and Boats: Maritime Life in Asia and Oceania” exhibition

4 September - 9 December 2025
Suita City, Osaka (National Museum of Ethnology)

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Photos:National Museum of Ethnology

 

the Adelaidean's digital album UTSURU (Live in Tokyo 2025)

July 2025-
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Adam Elliot's film "Memoirs of a Snail" in Japanese theatres

27 June 2025-
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©2024 ARENAMEDIA PTY LTD, FILMFEST LIMITED AND SCREEN AUSTRALIA

Adam Elliot

 

Exhibition 'Echoes Unveiled: Art by First Nations Women from Australia'

24 June - 21 September 2025
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (Artizon Museum)

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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

 

Documentary film "UKOAPKAS – Cultural Exchange"

April 2025-
Online

 

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)

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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

 

Credit: AnnaKatsanevas

Jenna Lee

 

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

 

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

 

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)

trailer of 'Yilii', a documentary film on Aretha Brown

Aretha Brown

 

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Australia-related books recently published in Japan

 

"Sixty Chapters to understand Contemporary Australia" edited by Tetsuo Mizukami and Takayuki Shimomura

August 2025-
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"Issatu de Wakaru Australia-shi" (Understanding Australian History in One Book)" edited by Takayuki Nagano

August 2025-
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"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-

Digital edition

 

Archive for past publication before 2023

The Masterpieces for Australian Contemporary Literature Series

 

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