Tadanori Yokoo: River of Linked Paintings

【Exhibition Period】

May 23 – August 30, 2026

【Opening Hours】

10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

(Last admission: 5:30 p.m.)

【Closed】

Mondays

(Except July 20, a national holiday, when the museum will remain open. Closed on July 21.)

【Admission】

Adults　　　　　　 ¥800 (¥600)

University Students　¥600 (¥450)

Ages 70 and Over　　¥400 (¥300)

High School Students and Younger　Free

Prices in parentheses indicate discounted rates for groups of 20 or more.

Visitors with disabilities receive a 25% discount on admission (except those aged 70 and over, who are charged the general admission rate). One accompanying caregiver is admitted free of charge.

Visitors wishing to receive discounts must present valid identification and purchase tickets at the museum ticket counter during the exhibition period.

The disability certificate application "Mirairo ID" is also accepted.

Tickets are also available through Rakuten Ticket.

Reciprocal Discount with Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art

Visitors presenting a ticket stub from a special exhibition or collection exhibition at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art may view Tadanori Yokoo: River of Linked Paintings at the group admission rate.

Likewise, visitors presenting a ticket stub from Tadanori Yokoo: River of Linked Paintings may receive the group admission rate for a special exhibition or collection exhibition at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.

Valid only with ticket stubs issued during the exhibition period.

Each ticket stub (including complimentary tickets) may be used once.

When visiting both a special exhibition and a collection exhibition at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, the applicable combined ticket discount will be applied.

【Overview】

Celebrating his 90th birthday this June, Tadanori Yokoo embarked on a new artistic endeavor in his late eighties. Inspired by the collaborative poetic tradition of renga (linked verse), he named this new series Renga (Linked Paintings).

The project began with a commemorative photograph taken with his classmates in his hometown of Nishiwaki, Hyogo Prefecture. Using Requiem of Memory (1994, collection of the museum), a painting based on that photograph, as the starting point, Yokoo challenged himself to paint freely without being constrained by a predetermined theme.

Each completed work led him in unexpected directions, allowing one painting to generate the next. Over the course of approximately two years, he created more than sixty works in the series. First presented at the Setagaya Art Museum in 2025, this exhibition now brings the series to Kobe.