Echigo-Tsumari Art Field

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale / Year-round Program;

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale / Year-round Program; "Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2023" (Apr 29- Nov 5)

Chang Yung Ho + Atelier FCJZ, "Rice House" (Photo Nakamura Osamu)

Year-round program

"Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2023" is held until Nov 5 !

”Niigata welcome campaign!! ￥5,000 /2,500 OFF”　is now being accepted.

Held in February 2024

Snow performance by Tanaka Min

Thatched private house pottery restaurant

Handmade lunch by mothers at Ubusuna House

The 2023 contract is being paid!

Artist merchandise on sale!

Take advantage of the model course.

Tanaka Min performance in February 2024

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale: Dates and the new name of the festival in 2024

2023/9/11 Award

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale merchandise is selected for "Graphic Design in Japan 2023"

2023/9/10 Events

Searching for members to join a community orchestra led by Oka Makoto! Activities will begin in October

2023/8/31 goods

The here-and-only Kohei Nawa merchandise

2023/8/26 Released artworks

Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel, now accepting advance reservations for fall

Great use in hot summer! Tenugui Special

About Echigo-Tsumari

Learn about Echigo-Tsumari Art Field

Events

^10/21SAT ‐ ^10/21SAT

Athletic meet for onigiri!

EAT&ART TARO Presents "Athletic Meet for Onigiri ”! will come to Nunagawa Campus. Let's have a nice day to eat delicious onigiri. Let's eat delicious onigiri from Tsumari even more tasty through heated battles in original competitions. FC Echigo-Tsumari's athletes will lead you to victory.

^10/1SUN ‐ ^10/1SUN

Ochi Yoshie "Traveling School"

A traveling play "Traveling School" will be performed at Echigo-Tsumari Kamigo Clove Theatre in October 2023. In preparation for the performance, director Yoshie Ochi will share the joy of theater with children through play and workshops.

^9/9SAT ‐ ^11/5SUN

Echigo-Tsumari MonET Exhibition Series Vol.2 Matsumoto Haruka"Graphcast Shiftpast"

As a new initiative, MonET will hold a series of special exhibitions. 2023 will feature four exhibitions with four guest curators.

^8/11FRI ‐ ^9/24SUN

SAKATA Kiyoko Solo Exhibition - Unrememberable Words

The third exhibition of 2023 was held at Gallery Yuyama!

^4/29SAT ‐ ^11/5SUN

Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2023

Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2023（April 29-November 5）

In Echigo-Tsumari, the people who live there cultivate their fields from spring to fall, and in winter they have a unique way of life born from the heavy snowfall. On that land, ｍany artworks located on. You can enjoy a journey through artworks deeply connected to the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field.

^7/29SAT ‐ ^11/5SUN

Akiyamago Oakasawa Branch School Project (tentative)" supervised by Fukasawa Takafumi

As part of the project to revitalize the former Oakasawa Branch School in Akiyamago as a new type of museum, we are continuing our research on Akiyamago's folk customs, beliefs, history, and technology, and will be exhibiting plans of the progress of the project in this exhibition. 　

^7/29SAT ‐ ^11/5SUN

Ohtaka Sizzle ＆Tashima Seizo Exhibition; Sizzle! Stay here forever.

Hachi & Seizo Tashima Museum of Picture Book holds the spring exhibition "Nuts sing, Art dances" featuring nuts!

Artworks / Artists

2023/6/1-11/5 (Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays)

Conector natura-cultura

Jorge Ismael Rodríguez

2023/6/1-11/5 (Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays)

2023/4/29-10/31 (Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays)

Homage to Rachel Carson: Four Little Stories

Fujiwara Yoshiko

Throughout the year / Closed on Tue except holidays *Closed on Tues and Wed from Dec. to Feb. ＊Closing for changing exhibitions：2023/7/10-14, 10/11-13, 2024/3/11-13

Super high-resolution human-size photographs—life-size

Hashimoto Norihisa + scope

Year round / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

Set North for Japan (74°33’2”）

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

2023/4/29-11/5 (Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays)

The Arch of Life

Former Soviet Union／USA

Ilya & Emilia Kabakov

2023/6/1-11/5 (Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays)

Space Slitar Orchestra

Charles-Eric Billard

Open all year / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays

Signs for Echigo-Tsumari／Signs for NO BUTAI Snow-Land Agrarian Culture Center, Matsudai

José de Guimarães

Explore Echigo-Tsumari

The Kamigo Junior High School closed down in 2012 but was reopened as a new base for the performing arts. Kamigo Clove Theatre functions as a residency, practice facility, and a performing arts stage and theatre. Artists are invited to reside in this facility and lead a "satoyama" lifestyle and learn through collaboration with local people to influence their performances. Within the building is also a unique restaurant where meals are served by local women while they "perform" a theatrical piece. (Opened irregularly)

Enjoy local home cooking of the four seasons with beautiful pottery at Ubusunano House

This old thatched-roof house is about 100 years old. Enjoy seasonal home-style dishes prepared by local mothers in dishes created by a leading Japanese ceramic artist.

Museum of the one and only site-specific art, built by Hara Hiroshi

The base facility of the "Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale". The architecture was designed by Hara Hiroshi + ATLIERΦ, who also designed the Kyoto Station Building. Fifteen permanent works by artists from Japan and abroad are on display throughout the year, with special exhibitions held seasonally and a museum shop. In 2021, the museum reopened with a major relocation of the permanent collection.

Approx. 40 pieces of art on and around the NOHBUTAI. From playful to representative works.

The Matsudai NOHBUTAI is a base facility designed by Dutch architect group MVRDV. Approximately 40 works of art are scattered in a 2-km area of satoyama from Matsudai NOHBUTAI to Matsudai Castle at the top of the mountain, and the entire area is called the "Matsudai NOHBUTAI Field Museum.

The House of Light is a work of art created by James Turrell, renowned globally as "an artist of light". At this experimental piece you can experience the artist's world of art, is an architectural structure unparalleled elsewhere in the world. It was conceived as a guest house for meditation, as Turrell found this concept in Junichiro Tanizaki's essay "In Praise of Shadows". He came up with the idea of incorporating his work on light into the intimate light of a traditional Japanese-style house.

Natural science museum where children are fascinated. Withstands 2000 tons of snow in winter.

A 10-minutes drive from Matsudai Station, Kyororo is a natural science museum that provides deep insights into the ecology of the local area and its characteristic natural landscape of terraced rice fields, beech forests, and thatched roof houses.

Collaboration of natural beauty and art that changes with the seasons.

One of Echigo-Tsumari's representative sights, the Kiyotsukyo Valley Tunnel has been refurbished by fusing it with art works. A tunnel with a total length of 750m is likened to a submarine cut off from the outside world.
*Advance reservations are required during peak seasons (GW, consecutive holidays, Obon, and autumn foliage season).

Visit

light hiking ! Enjoy the Matsudai "NOHBUTAI" Field Museum

”Matsudai NOHBUTAI Field Museum" is the general name for the area surrounding NOHBUTAI. The entire area is designated as a museum, including the artworks in NOHBUTAI, three artworks at Matsudai Castle, and about 40 outdoor artworks. Enjoy the field museum for a full day.

Hong Kong House Opening Tour with Kitagawa Fram

[Niigata welcome campaign!! ￥5,000 OFF] This is a discount campaign for foreign nationals only. Japanese nationals can apply for tours through the Japanese reservation page.　This is a special tour that includes the opening event of Hong Kong House, which will host a new exhibition this summer and Fram Kitagawa, General Director of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, will lead.
In addition to the Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel and Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art, MonET, visitors will also enjoy a performance-style lunch at Kamigo Clove Theatre Restaurant.

Tombi-Kakku route

[Niigata welcome campaign!! ￥5,000 /2,500 OFF] This is a discount campaign for foreign nationals only. Japanese nationals can apply for tours through the Japanese reservation page. Tour to visit abandoned school works and representative base facilities of the area. Enjoy a homemade lunch at Ubusuna House.　
Main artworks: Tunnel of Light (Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel), House of Light, Hachi & Seizo Tashima Museum of Picture Book Art, Museum on Echigo-Tsumari(MonET)

JIKU-Shinko route

We visit the works by Seiichi Saito/Panoramatics, which are open to the public for a limited time, and tour the early artworks of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale. Lunch is a buffet at Satoyama Shokudo using local products.
Main artworks: JIKU #013 HOKUHOKU-LINE, Matsudai NOHBUTAI, Kyororo, The Last Class

Kohebi-Kunekune route

[Niigata welcome campaign!! ￥5,000 /2,500 OFF] This is a discount campaign for foreign nationals only. Japanese nationals can apply for tours through the Japanese reservation page.
From outdoor artworks to vacant house artworks and art museums, this tour takes you around Echigo-Tsumari in a wide range. Visitors can enjoy the nature of the satoyama in summer, including the beautiful forests with their vivid green colors.

Medaka-Suisui route

[Niigata welcome campaign!! ￥5,000 /2,500 OFF] This is a discount campaign for foreign nationals only. Japanese nationals can apply for tours through the Japanese reservation page.
This course is to enjoy nature and art in the town of Tsunan, which boasts of its great natural beauty. Lunch is served at "Kamigo Clove Theatre” restaurant where you will taste a special menu served in a theatrical style by local mothers with all five senses. If you are looking for a deep experience at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, this is the course for you.

Support

Matsudai Tanada Bank

Open invitation to those who wish to help maintain terraced rice field in the ageing community. Let’s make Echigo-Tsumari rice in this Koshihikari-rice-growing district.

FC Echigo-Tsumari

Activities by a female football team consisting of members who have moved to the region and taken over rice production in the terraced rice field.

Engaging supporters with management and maintenance of artworks, and rice planting and harvesting. Approximately 3000 people from around the world participate in those activeties.

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