Programs

MA01

Mori Art Museum

Louise Bourgeois: I have been to hell and back. And let me tell you, it was wonderful.

Maman
1999/2002
Collection: Mori Building Co., Ltd., Tokyo

[Date]
2024/9/25(Wed) – 2025/1/19(Sun), 10:00-22:00 (last admission 21:30)
* Open until 23:00 on 9/27(Fri) and 9/28 (Sat)
* Open until 17:00 on Tuesdays (last admission 16:30)
* Open until 22:00 on 12/24 and 12/31
[Place]
Mori Art Museum (Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 53rd Floor)
[Admission fee]
[Weekdays] Adults ¥2,000 (¥1,800), Students (high school and university) ¥1,400 (¥1,300), Seniors (65 and over): ¥1,700 (¥1,500), Children (Jr. High Students and under) Free [Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays] Adults ¥2,200 (¥2,000), Students (high school and university) ¥1,500 (¥1,400), Seniors (65 and over): ¥1,900 (¥1,700), Children (Jr. High Students and under) Free
* Prices indicated by ( ) are online prices.
This is the first major solo exhibition in Japan in 27 years by Louise Bourgeois, the artist well-known for “Maman”, the giant spider sculpture that symbolizes Roppongi Hills. The exhibition introduces her career spanning over 70 years through approximately 100 works including sculpture, painting, drawing, and installation. About half of the works are being exhibited in Japan for the first time.

ARTISTS

Louise Bourgeois

Born in Paris in 1911, Louise Bourgeois was the second daughter of parents who ran a commercial gallery specializing in tapestries and a conservation studio. She studied art at the Sorbonne, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Ecole du Louvre, and Académie de la Grande Chaumière, while attending the studios of artists such as Fernand Leger. In 1989, she had her first solo exhibition in Europe at the Kunstverein Frankfurt, Germany, and in 1993 she was represented by the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Since then, she has had notable solo exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1995), Yokohama Museum of Art (1997), Tate Modern, London (2000), among countless others. She passed away in 2010.