Mariko Mori Retrospective Opens in Tokyo, Co-Curated With the Guggenheim Foundation

The Mori Art Museum in Tokyo has opened Mariko Mori: All That Shines, a retrospective of the artist's work that runs until 28 March 2027.

A retrospective is a show that gathers an artist's work from across a career. This one began on 31 October 2026, according to the museum's exhibition page, and it is a collaboration with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the organisation that runs the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

The exhibition has two co-curators. Alexandra Munroe is senior curator at large for global arts at the Guggenheim, and Mami Kataoka is director of the Mori Art Museum. A co-curator is one of the people who selects the works and decides how they are arranged in the galleries.

Munroe has a long record of surveying Japanese art. In 1994 she curated Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky at the Yokohama Museum of Art, a broad survey of the postwar period. A report in The Art Newspaper published on 2 November 2026 includes Munroe's own account of the new show and of how Japan's art scene has changed.

Visitors who want to hear from Munroe directly have one chance on the calendar so far. The museum lists a "Talk Session: All That Shines" with Munroe on 3 November 2026, from 14:00 to 16:00. The session takes place at TOKYO NODE HALL, on the 46th floor of Toranomon Hills Station Tower in Tokyo.

For anyone planning a visit, the exhibition has a long run. It stays open for almost five months, so there is time to see it after the opening weeks. Readers outside Japan can follow the show through the museum's own website, where the exhibition page sets out the dates and programme.