The Taguchi Art Collection is a world-renowned contemporary art collection, built from a unique perspective by entrepreneur Hiroshi Taguchi and his daughter, Miwa Taguchi, through their keen observation of global economic trends and the art scene. Covering a diverse range of works by emerging to mid-career artists from across the globe—including Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa—the collection offers a compelling reflection of "the now."This exhibition marks the first time the Taguchi Art Collection (Tagu-Colle) is being introduced in Miyazaki. Part 1, "The Door to Contemporary Art," serves as an entry point into the world of contemporary art, featuring sculptures, videos, and installations by artists such as Kohei Nawa, Yusuke Asai, and José Dávila. Part 2, "The Grand Hall of Contemporary Art," showcases works from various regions, centering on artists who have participated in the prestigious Venice Biennale, including the increasingly prominent Ethiopian artist Elias Sime. Part 3, "Visiting the Artists," focuses on influential Japanese artists of various generations, such as Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, and Izumi Kato, highlighting the current landscape of Japanese contemporary art. From the collection’s vast archive of over 700 works, we are proud to present approximately 70 exceptional pieces, including 17 works being unveiled to the public for the first time. We invite you to experience this encounter with diverse and unique expressions that mirror our contemporary world, and to rediscover artists who have previously visited the Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum as guest speakers or jurors. Organized by Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, Miyazaki Nichinichi Shimbun, UMK TV Miyazaki In collaboration with Taguchi Foundation, Artsplus Institute of Contemporary Art, Art Office Shiobara Supported by Miyazaki Prefectural Arts and Culture Association, Miyazaki Prefecture Association of Municipal Boards of EducationArtists Satoru Aoyama / Joël Andrianomearisoa / Yusuke Asai / Miriam Cahn / Jose Dávila / Damien Hirst / Jenny Holzer / Mari Katayama / Izumi Kato / Abdoulaye Konaté / Tomoko Konoike / Yayoi Kusama / Alicja Kwade / Gonzalo Lebrija / Roy Lichtenstein / Ad Minoliti / Yasumasa Morimura / Richard Mosse / Takashi Murakami / Yoshitomo Nara / Kohei Nawa / Shinro Ohtake / Yoko Ono / Gabriel Orozco / Laure Prouvost / Elias Sime / Mika Shimauchi / Chiharu Shiota / Yutaka Sone / Hajime Sorayama / Hiraku Suzuki / Gavin Turk / Xavier Veilhan / Erwin Wurm / Lynette Yiadom-BoakyeFor further info click <a href="https://taguchiartcollection.jp/en/exhibition/2026-miyazaki/">here</a>.&nbsp;

The Taguchi Art Collection is a world-renowned contemporary art collection, built from a unique perspective by entrepreneur Hiroshi Taguchi and his daughter, Miwa Taguchi, through their keen observation of global economic trends and the art scene. Covering a diverse range of works by emerging to mid-career artists from across the globe—including Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa—the collection offers a compelling reflection of "the now."

MIYAZAKI meets Taguchi Art Collection: What is Contemporary Art?

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2026The Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition returns as one of the UK's most anticipated cultural events, bringing together work by established artists, emerging talent, Royal Academicians, and members of the public. Spanning painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, film, and digital art, the exhibition offers a vibrant snapshot of contemporary art and ideas.Curated by Ryan Gander, the 2026 exhibition is themed Interconnectedness, exploring the relationships, associations, and unexpected connections that link people, ideas, and creative practices. Works from all disciplines are displayed together throughout the galleries, encouraging dialogue across different media and perspectives.Alongside the art, visitors can enjoy late openings, social spaces including the in-gallery gin bar, and the opportunity to purchase many of the exhibited works. More than an exhibition, the Summer Exhibition remains a unique annual celebration of creativity, community, and contemporary culture.

Gallery view of the Summer Exhibition 2026, at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 16 June - 23 August 2026. 

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2026The Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition returns as one of the UK's most anticipated cultural events, bringing together work by established artists, emerging talent, Royal Academicians, and members of the public. Spanning painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, film, and digital art, the exhibition offers a vibrant snapshot of contemporary art and ideas.

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2026 

Baldwin Gallery is pleased to present ‘A Quotidian Life’, the second solo exhibition of British artist Gavin Turk in Aspen. The exhibition will present a recent series of still-life paintings that pay homage to early 20th century Italian artist Giorgio Morandi. In typical Turk style he has subverted Morandi’s serene arrangements of vases and handmade vessels, by replacing the models with quotidian product packaging.Looking at the precious and overlooked nature of product packaging, I have become a domestic anthropologist, attempting to uncover the conspiracy of blindness imposed by ideological perspectives.&nbsp;- Gavin Turk&nbsp;The paintings in this anachronistic series are meticulously executed in a restricted tonal palette against a monochrome ground, some of the objects are highlighted in accents of colour, inviting a close study of rhythmically arranged lines and forms. The audience is encouraged to explore this curious juxtaposition, as empty containers from used products are elevated to classical models, while simultaneously reminding us of our consumer driven culture.&nbsp;Turk began this project by preserving and cataloguing used disposable packaging, in what the artist refers to as ‘an exercise in self-portraiture’. The artwork titles list the products depicted in each composition, Turk offers a glimpse into his consumption habits, prompting reflection on the significance of these mundane artifacts as traces of human presence over time. As Turk aptly states, "We are what we throw away." Each work is set within a bespoke frame, suggesting a distinctive historical journey for each piece, culminating in their convergence for this exhibition.&nbsp;Through this exploration, the viewers are challenged to reconsider the implications of their daily consumer choices and draw awareness to the nostalgia and branding of consumer products. Turk is renowned for transforming banal, overlooked objects – refuse bags, apple cores, matchboxes, Styrofoam cups, shipping containers, candle – into intricately constructed works of fine art, whether through his hand-painted bronzes or masterful canvas paintings, overthrowing art historical conventions, disrupting the canon, questioning authorship, and imploring critique of human behaviour and our relationship to relics of our time. This ingenious new body of work is at once tongue-in-cheek, visually, and technically compelling, familiarly nostalgic, and provokes imperative reflection.&nbsp;

  Gavin Turk The Groovy Food Organic Agave Nectar, Whittard English Breakfast Loose Tea Pouch, Maldon Sea Salt Flakes, M&S Table Salt, 2024

Baldwin Gallery is pleased to present ‘A Quotidian Life’, the second solo exhibition of British artist Gavin Turk in Aspen. The exhibition will present a recent series of still-life paintings that pay homage to early 20th century Italian artist Giorgio Morandi. In typical Turk style he has subverted Morandi’s serene arrangements of vases and handmade vessels, by replacing the models with quotidian product packaging.

A Quotidian Life 

Q: When is a door not a door? A: When it is ajar.Ben Brown Fine Arts is pleased to present The Escapologist, the sixth solo exhibition of British artist Gavin Turk at the London gallery. The exhibition showcases a new series of oil paintings depicting doors left ajar, each offering a glimpse into an ambiguous and surreal terrain beyond. Shown together, the works transform the gallery into a labyrinth of thresholds. Each painting functions as a portal, drawing the viewer towards a narrow opening that reveals a field of smooth, liquid brushwork. These passages dissolve into bands of luminous colour that suggest an atmospheric horizon, generating unstable optical effects that coax the eye into a false sense of depth. For more than three decades, Turk has relentlessly interrogated the systems through which belief is produced – in images, in authorship, in value – using familiar forms, art historical tropes, psychoanalytic symbols and dreamlike objects to set perceptual traps. The door is a recurring motif in his practice and, like the egg that also appears throughout his work, carries both Surrealist symbolism and art historical weight. As Turk notes, “When I see a door in a doorframe, I also see an egg. An egg is all door, in that sense, the door is both a point of departure and arrival.” A ubiquitous object, the door embodies paradox. It marks both beginnings and endings and defines the unstable relationship between inside and outside.For further information please click <a href="https://www.benbrownfinearts.com/exhibitions/229-gavin-turk-the-escapologist/">here</a>.&nbsp;

Q: When is a door not a door?A: When it is ajar.

The Escapologist 

The exhibition Everything Is Political! presented since 7 November in Clichy, will open in Senlis from 21 February 2026.This new chapter strongly asserts that politics is not confined to institutions or official discourse: it runs through our bodies, our relationships, and our imaginations.At a time of growing distrust toward structures of power, the exhibition brings to light their mechanisms, their strategies of influence, and their concrete effects on our lives.In resonance with the works shown in Clichy, the Senlis presentation reveals the fault lines of our societies: relations of domination, systems of control, and forms of violence—whether explicit or insidious. These are realities that the artists render visible, interrogate, and reframe.The aim is not shock or paralysis, but the awakening of a critical gaze and the possibility of resistance.Artists: Adel Abdessemed, Carlos Aires, Willem Andersson, Vladimir Anselm, Nasser Bakhshi, Neïl Beloufa, Barton Lidice Benes, Gilles Caron, Philippe Chancel, Andy Denzler, Raymond Depardon, Subodh Gupta, Greg Haberny, Debora Hirsch, Alain Josseau, Naji Kamouche, Youcef Korichi, Rachel Labastie, Dorothea Lange, Senzeni Marasela, Filip Markiewicz, Antoni Miralda, Roghayeh Najdi, Stéphane Pencréac’h, Gilles Saussier, Leszek Skurski, Gavin Turk.

The exhibition Everything Is Political! presented since 7 November in Clichy, will open in Senlis from 21 February 2026.This new chapter strongly asserts that politics is not confined to institutions or official discourse: it runs through our bodies, our relationships, and our imaginations.At a time of growing distrust toward structures of power, the exhibition brings to light their mechanisms, their strategies of influence, and their concrete effects on our lives.

TOUT EST POLITIQUE! SENLIS

This exhibition explores the dynamic evolution of British art from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. After going through the Thatcher era (1979–1990), a charged and uncertain social climate gave rise to a new generation of artists who challenged traditional norms and embraced bold, experimental practices.&nbsp;Many of the newer generation of artists who came to prominence in the 1990s were referred to in the art and popular media&nbsp;under the title Young British Artists (YBAs). Alongside other artists active at the time, these artists explored themes such as popular culture, personal identity, and shifting social structures. They worked across a diverse range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, video, and installation. Featuring around 100 works by approximately 60 artists, the exhibition traces the radical creativity and groundbreaking approaches that redefined British art in the 1990s.SARAH AINSLIE •&nbsp;FRANCIS BACON •&nbsp;RICHARD BILLINGHAM •&nbsp;SUTAPA BISWAS •&nbsp;BLACK AUDIO FILM COLLECTIVE •&nbsp;HENRY BOND •&nbsp;CHRISTINE BORLAND •&nbsp;ANGELA BULLOCH •&nbsp;HELEN CHADWICK •&nbsp;DINOS CHAPMAN •&nbsp;JAKE CHAPMAN •&nbsp;MAT COLLISHAW •&nbsp;KEITH COVENTRY •&nbsp;MICHAEL CRAIG-MARTIN •&nbsp;MARTIN CREED •&nbsp;JEREMY DELLER •&nbsp;CATHY DE MONCHAUX • TRACEY EMIN •&nbsp;CEAL FLOYER •&nbsp;MARK FRANCIS •&nbsp;ANYA GALLACCIO •&nbsp;GILBERT &amp; GEORGE •&nbsp;LIAM GILLICK •&nbsp;DOUGLAS GORDON •&nbsp;LUCY GUNNING •&nbsp;RICHARD HAMILTON •&nbsp;MONA HATOUM •&nbsp;LUBAINA HIMID •&nbsp;DAMIEN HIRST •&nbsp;GARY HUME •&nbsp;DEREK JARMAN •&nbsp;SARAH JONES • ANISH KAPOOR •&nbsp;JIM LAMBIE •&nbsp;MICHAEL LANDY •&nbsp;MARK LECKEY •&nbsp;SARAH LUCAS •&nbsp;STEVE MCQUEEN •&nbsp;LISA MILROY •&nbsp;SEAMUS NICOLSON •&nbsp;CHRIS OFILI •&nbsp;JULIAN OPIE • CORNELIA PARKER •&nbsp;SIMON PATTERSON •&nbsp;GRAYSON PERRY •&nbsp;STEVEN PIPPIN •&nbsp;MARC QUINN •&nbsp;JULIE ROBERTS •&nbsp;DAVID ROBILLIARD • JOHNNIE SHAND KYDD •&nbsp;DAVID SHRIGLEY •&nbsp;GEORGINA STARR •&nbsp;WOLFGANG TILLMANS •&nbsp;GAVIN TURK •&nbsp;MARK WALLINGER •&nbsp;GILLIAN WEARING •&nbsp;RACHEL WHITEREAD •&nbsp;ELIZABETH WRIGHTFor more information on the show please click <a href="https://www.ybabeyond.jp/en/#artists">here</a>.&nbsp;

This exhibition explores the dynamic evolution of British art from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. After going through the Thatcher era (1979–1990), a charged and uncertain social climate gave rise to a new generation of artists who challenged traditional norms and embraced bold, experimental practices. Many of the newer generation of artists who came to prominence in the 1990s were referred to in the art and popular media under the title Young British Artists (YBAs).

MIYAZAKI meets Taguchi Art Collection: What is Contemporary Art?

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2026

A Quotidian Life

The Escapologist

TOUT EST POLITIQUE! SENLIS

YBA & BEYOND, British Art in the 90's from the Tate Collection