The Takashi Murakami edition exhibition “JAPONISME → Cognitive Revolution: Learning from Hiroshige” will be held at Kaikai Kiki Gallery in Motoazabu from Friday, December 19 to Thursday, January 29, 2026.
JAPONISME → Cognitive Revolution: Learning from Hiroshige” is a solo exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in New York. The exhibition features prints of almost all of the paintings exhibited at the Gagosian Gallery in New York. The Japanese translation of the title is “Japonisme → Cognitive Revolution: Learning from Hiroshige.
The theme of the exhibition is “Japonism.
Japonism is a phenomenon that began with the Paris Exposition of 1867, when Japanese arts and crafts influenced a wide range of European arts, crafts, and decorations.
This exhibition is a testament to Takashi Murakami’s theory of Japonism: “It was the moment of a major cognitive revolution in the art world, triggering the birth of abstract painting, and may have been the starting point for the emergence of contemporary art itself.
The walls of the exhibition space will be covered with 118 prints created in response to the exhibition of Hiroshige Utagawa’s “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo,” which was held at the Brooklyn Museum in April 2024. A closer look reveals that small characters such as Flower, Kaikai and Kiki, DOB, and the Wind God and Thunder God appear throughout the exhibition.
Also on display will be “Japonaise in Claude Monet’s La Japonaise,” a print work that pays homage to the paintings of Claude Monet, an Impressionist known for his influence on Ukiyoe, and a painting of Louis Vuitton’s monogram, which was created in the context of Japonism.
The exhibition, which brings together original paintings from around the world that have become Takashi Murakami’s prints, will allow visitors to reexamine the extent of Japonism’s influence on the art world.
Friday, December 19, 📅Thursday, January 29, 2026
📍 Kaikai Kiki Gallery (B1F Motoazabu Crest Building, 2-3-30 Motoazabu, Minato-ku)
👉Official website🚇About 8 minutes walk from Hiroo Station Exit 1, about 13 minutes walk from Azabu-juban Station Exit 7