Museum report·Tokyo
Mariko Mori Returns to Tokyo With First Major Home Retrospective in 24 Years
Mori Art Museum stages Mariko Mori: All That Shines from October 31, 2026 to March 28, 2027, gathering around forty works across three decades of the artist's career. Co-organized with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, it is her first major institutional retrospective in Japan since 2002.

The Mori Art Museum in Tokyo will present Mariko Mori: All That Shines, a major retrospective tracing more than three decades of the artist's practice, from October 31, 2026 through March 28, 2027. Organized in collaboration with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and co-curated by Alexandra Munroe and Kataoka Mami, the exhibition brings together roughly forty works spanning photography, video, drawing, sculpture, and large-scale interactive installation. It marks Mori's first major institutional retrospective in her native Japan since Mariko Mori: Pure Land at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in 2002. The show is structured around her long-standing concept of Oneness, charting her evolution from the cyberpunk-inflected, performance-based photography of the mid-1990s toward expansive meditative works that fuse technological futurism with Buddhist cosmology, ancient sacred sites, and astrophysics. The presentation unfolds chronologically across five sections, moving from anime, video game, and cosplay-influenced early works toward her later explorations of consciousness, nature, and humanity's relationship with the universe. Highlights include the early video work Miko No Inori (1996), the brainwave biofeedback installation Wave UFO (1999-2002), and Tom Na H-iu (2006), an interactive sculpture that translates real-time neutrino emissions from supernova explosions into pulses of light. Monumental outdoor structures such as Primal Rhythm: Sun Pillar (2011) and Ring: One with Nature (2016), aligned to the winter solstice sun, are presented through photographic documentation. The exhibition occupies the museum's galleries on the 53rd floor of Roppongi Hills Mori Tower. Opening day coincides with Roppongi Art Night 2026, for which the museum will stay open through 6 a.m. the following morning. The museum will close for renovation from September 2027, making this one of the final major exhibitions before the hiatus.


