The "Fukuoka Art Next (FaN)" project was initiated to integrate more art into daily life and support artists. This September, the city will once again host "FaN Week," an event that takes place at various locations across Fukuoka City. Now in its third year, FaN Week offers a range of experiences—from viewing contemporary Asian art and curated collections to collaborating with artists on new works and purchasing pieces at a highly anticipated art fair. It’s a fantastic opportunity to discover your favorite artists and artworks.
This year’s FaN Week 2025 will be held from September 13th (Saturday) until September 28th (Sunday)!
Venues: Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Artist Cafe Fukuoka, and more.
This year’s theme is The City-Spinning Rabbit
▲牛島智子《くちなしパンを食み スピンするウサギ》
The hare eating a loaf of gardenia bread and spinning around
The main highlight this year is the large-scale rabbit-themed installation to be displayed at the ONE FUKUOKA BLDG. that opened in Tenjin in April of this year.
With many diverse pieces resonating in the exhibition space, new combinations of color and light will inspire the imagination. In this way, the ONE FUKUOKA BUILDING will be re-envisioned as a garden of creativity, with the rabbit centerpiece dashing, or ‘spinning’, throughout the city, harmonizing with different art pieces and places as it radiates brilliant new colors.
For 16 days patrons and visitors will be able to encounter new art and perspectives throughout the city, allowing them to nurture new values and their own creativity as they do so.
*The image shows part of the exhibited work.
Collectors IV -Trigger and Mirror-
This year 46 pieces from the collections of businessmen Masamichi Toyama and Kouchiro Yoshida will be displayed at the fourth installment of this popular exhibition!
For Mr. Toyama, art is akin to an invisible trigger. Art encompassing a wide variety of genres and themes can provide many hints and realizations regarding ordinary life and even business.
For Mr. Yoshida, an avid collector of pieces that incorporate diverse colors and lines, art serves to reflect the interior of his own heart, serving as a mirror to his own inner landscape.
By viewing the two distinct collections, we hope you will gain insight into the collectors' personalities. Furthermore, we would be delighted if these collections serve as both a ‘trigger’ and ‘mirror’ for visitors.
Duration: September 13th (Saturday) ~ September 28th (Sunday)
Closed day: Monday
*The museum will be open on September 15th (Tuesday・Holiday) but closed on September 16th (Tuesday).
Location: Fukuoka Art Museum
Cost: General admission is 200 (150) yen, university and middle school 150 yen (100), and free of charge to middle schoolers and younger.
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Special Exhibit: Electronic Monsters
A special exhibition by internationally active media artist Yao Chung-Han will be shown at Artist Café Fukuoka.
Grand Studio, the exhibition space, is located in the former Maizuru Middle School. Used as a school from 1961 until 2014, the space is quite large, covering over 350 m2. Here, the artist has set up his ‘Electronic Monsters’, electrical light installations that glitter in the dark. These lights are accompanied by countless sounds, making this a unique large-scale installation.
Duration: September 13th, 2025 (Saturday) ~ September 28th, 2025 (Sunday) 11:00 ~19:00
*Closed on September 16th (Tuesday) and September 22nd (Monday)
Location: Artist Café Fukuoka/Grand Studio (2-5, Jonai, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City)
Cost: Free
The 24th Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Winds of Artist in Residence: Illuminate Our Life
For the first period of the 2025 Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Residence Project, artists Mohammed Fazla Rabbi Fatiq (Bangladesh), Willie Xaiwouth (Laos), and Baba Saori (Japan, Fukuoka) are taking part to exhibit their work. The artists visited various locations throughout Fukuoka, and reflected in their work are the fruits of their research and interactions with locals living in the area.
The word ‘Life’ is meant to refer to our day-to-day existence. What is it that we live for? What are we protecting day in and day out through our lives? We encourage you to find out what these artists encountered for themselves in their various art works.
Duration: September 13th, 2025 (Saturday) ~ September 28th, 2025 (Sunday) 11:00 ~19:00
*Closed on September 16th (Tuesday) and September 22nd (Monday)
Location: Artist Café Fukuoka (2-5, Jonai, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City)
Cost: Free
Fukuokan Modern Art by Tomoko Ushijima: The Hare Eating a Loaf of Gardenia Bread and Spinning Around
くちなしパンを食み スピンするウサギ
The hare eating a loaf of gardenia bread and spinning around
Tomoko Ushijima (living in Yame City, winner of the Third Mayoral Fukuokan Art Award) began her artistic career in the 1980s, and by composing an ensemble of flat surfaces, semi-3d surfaces, and fully 3d objects, invites viewers to not just view, but participate in the artistic spaces she creates with their whole body. As an artist, she wishes to investigate the possibilities of more open artistic experience.
Located in the first floor Grand Lobby of the recently opened ONE FUKUOKA BUILDING, motifs rooted in the fundamental principles of nature and the universe—element symbols, regular polyhedra, periodic tables—that have appeared throughout her creative career come together with a three-dimensional rabbit crafted from Yame washi paper, unfolding new possibilities and associations.
Duration: September 13th, 2025 (Saturday) ~ September 28th, 2025 (Sunday)
Location: ONE FUKUOKA BLDG. 1st floor Grand Lobby (1-11-1 Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City)
Cost: Free
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Best Collection III Breaking the Conventional: New Self Portraits
This exhibit will be the third installment of the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum’s Best Collection series, an exhibition which showcases carefully selected masterworks curated from the 5,700 pieces in the museum’s collection. This exhibit will feature artists primarily operating from 1980-1990, with over 40 pieces divided into 11 groups.
One of the general factors that sets Asian artists apart is their drive to explore their own backgrounds and identities through their artwork. By using their backgrounds as a platform for their expressions, they cultivate an idiosyncratic style and sense. By investigating their history, traditions, and cultures, and even tackling the societal realities they bore witness to every day, the self-portraits of these artists reveal much about the world they lived in, and helped create a new era of Asian art.
Duration: June 5th, 2025 (Saturday) ~ November 30th, 2025 (Sunday) 9:30 ~ 18:00 (Friday・Saturday are until 20:00)
Closed day: Wednesdays
Location: The Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, 7th floor, Asia Gallery (3-1 Shimokawabata, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka)
Entry cost: General admission: 200 yen (150 yen)/High school・University 150 yen (100 yen)/Middle school and younger: free
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Vietnam: The Landscape of Memories
The Vietnam War came to a close in 1975, ending with the expulsion of the American army from Vietnamese soil. The event marked a major turning point in history, overturning several trends that had existed until then.
This exhibit marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the war and reflects on the turbulent past 100 years in Vietnam. Topics like colonial rule and struggles for independence from Western powers, the emergence of refugees, and globalization, are traced through approximately 110 pieces made by Vietnamese artists.
Duration: September 13th, 2025 (Saturday) ~ November 9th, 2025 (Sunday) 9:30 ~ 18:00 (until 20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays)
Location: The Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, 7th floor, Project Gallery (3-1 Shimokawabata, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka)
Entry cost: General admission: 200 yen (150 yen)/High school・University 150 yen (100 yen)/Middle school and younger: free
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ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2025
2025 marks the 10th annual Asia Fukuoka Art Fair, an event that has gradually come to be a hub for art from around the Asian region. Throughout the years this event has cultivated connections between Japan and the rest of Asia, and joined global and local forces together to bring about new possibilities and forms of expression.
This truly special edition of AFAF2025 will be graced with the largest collection of art in the event’s history.
Duration: September 26th, 2025 (Friday) ~ September 28th, 2025 (Sunday)
*September 25th (Thursday) is exclusive to VIP guests.
Location: Marine Messe Hall B (2-1 Okihamamachi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka City)
Entry cost: Advance tickets: 2,500 yen (tax included)/Door: 3,000 yen (tax included)
In addition to these six main events, the "Fukuoka Wall Art Project 2025," which transforms construction site walls into canvases for artists, and various other art-related events will take place at department stores and galleries in Tenjin and Hakata. Step out into the streets of Fukuoka and immerse yourself in the vibrant art scene!