The Mori Art Museum in Tokyo is turning 20. Instead of distraction, those responsible are organizing an exhibition of the highest importance: Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living brings together over 35 artistic positions from 16 countries on the climate crisis. Globalization and the enormous growth of people and industry have resulted in enormous environmental changes, the dangerous effects of which we can only guess at. The topic occupies the international art scene. From October 18, 2023 to March 31, 2024, the Mori Art Museum will show works by Monira Al Qadiri, Julian Charrière, Ian Cheng, Agnes Denes, Jef Geys, Hans Haacke, Koie Ryoji, Jochen Lempert, Matsuzawa Yutaka, Ana Mendieta, Saijo Akane, Daniel Turner, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, among others.
The exhibition is divided into four chapters. It begins with All Is Connected, where the complex interconnection of ecosystem and economy and politics is explored. In Return to Earth, the show works through Japanese art from 1950 to 1990. During this period, the Japanese economy grew rapidly, resulting in dangerous air and environmental pollution. The Great Acceleration offers hope for improvement. The Future Is within Us concludes with possibilities for shaping the ecological future, which can be shaped by activism, artificial intelligence and spirituality.
