The world of Van Gogh is presented with state-of-the-art visuals projected on the floor and the walls of up to 7 meters high installed throughout the venue, as well as with powerful music. The hottest immersive exhibition has attracted 8.5 million visitors worldwide. Photography is allowed throughout the venue. Art fans and families alike can enjoy the feeling of being part of the artworks.

This is a series of open exhibitions that offers opportunities for artists to make their works public. We are awaiting many applications and attendance. *The website and application process will be updated. Please check for details on the museum’s website and the exhibition regulations to be distributed throughout the prefecture around April.

The 14th edition of the series introducing currently active artists will be a solo exhibition by Yoshimoto Naoko (1972– ), who was born and lives in Hyogo Prefecture. The three-dimensional work composed of white shirts that retain the traces of people’s lives will remind viewers of life and death, while the work of birds facing the wind and flapping their wings in the sky will remind them of the light of hope that will never disappear in the midst of difficult circumstances.

This exhibition introduces the diverse expressions of the museum’s modern and contemporary artworks which exist between fiction and reality, including artworks that seek realism while at the same time attempting to be fiction, and vice versa, artworks that are fiction but precisely representing the real world.

Bai Joteki (1916–2008, real name: Inada Fumikazu), a leading calligrapher and seal carving artist in postwar Japan, built his collection based on his unique, insightful research on epigraphy. This exhibition introduces approximately 90 carefully-selected masterpieces from the Ming and Qing dynasties of China in his collection.

The works of art that the museum has newly acquired in the past year will be introduced along with the existing collection in line with themes.

Since its start in 1989, this series of exhibitions that allows visitors to appreciate works by touching them has reexamined the visually-oriented approach to art. This year’s exhibition features Kaori Endo (1989– ), who focuses on crafts and lifestyles rooted in the local area and creates her works mainly using dyeing and weaving techniques. The works that Endo weaves based on the keywords representing Kobe, such as the port, ship, hemp, and import/export, will provide an opportunity to consider the boundaries of art.

The exhibition features selected masterpieces from the museum’s collection under the themes of “art” and “story.”

To commemorate the 180th anniversary of the birth of Wu Changshuo (1844–1927), who left a significant footprint on modern Chinese calligraphy, painting, and seal carving, the exhibition will review his achievements and friendships, focusing on the Bai Joteki Collection owned by the museum.