Art Festivals & Events

“art stage OSAKA” was first held in 2022 as an international art fair in Osaka to propose “ways of communicating with art in the new era” to enrich people’s minds and lives through art as cultural and social capital.
The Art Tokyo Association aims to develop Japan's cultural potential around the world, and will hold two art events, 'art stage OSAKA' and 'artKYOTO 2023' at the same time in the Kansai region, in order to convey the appeal of art to people in Japan and abroad. As well as activating the art market in the Kansai region, the event will also aim to create an art scene there that will attract attention from around the globe in preparation for the Osaka Expo to be held in 2025. It will also try to draw attention from tourists visiting Japan and the Web3 network, to form a community that transcends the framework of the conventional art scene, aiming to develop it into an international event never before seen.

This year's exhibition, themed 'Future Society as seen through Art,' will consist of three sections, with artwork being available for purchase.
'World Art Osaka' collaborates with ambassadors and consuls to Japan and showcases works by artists from ten Asian countries. 'Japanese Contemporary' will feature works by active contemporary artists based in Japan, and 'New Media' will feature NFT works supported by an enthusiastic community. Through this program of exhibitions in 3 sections and symposiums, art stage OSAKA 2023 aims to be a place where people from different regions and fields can share and exchange their views and perspectives with each other to deepen mutual understanding, and explore new insights and our own respective paths toward the realization of a more prosperous society in the future.

Main works

World Art Osaka Paintings Now Redux

In collaboration with the ambassadors and consuls to Japan, this international exhibition presents works by artists active in diverse cultural backgrounds and world affairs from 10 countries in Asia. Asia, which has experienced rapid growth – energetic and sometimes chaotic – within an extremely short span of time, has overcome various contradictions with modernism and depicted these “scenes” in the surface of paintings. This exhibition introduces the reality of such Asian paintings, from abstract to figurative, from conceptual to the socially-conscious; we hope you will experience the rich variety of "now" in the Asian region.

Japanese Contemporary -Is there anything left to pray for in a world without God, where everything is calculated?-

Featuring works by contemporary artists unraveling visions of the future, this exhibition presents artworks from different perspectives of social issues, spirituality, and faith. The exhibition examines the relationship between politics and art in postwar Japan and the new artistic spirit fostered by scientific and technological innovations exploring how artworks with Japanese and Asian spirituality create new values through irrationality amidst the advancing rationality of science. We hope that the artists' works will serve as a compass for us and guide new insights into a more prosperous future.

New Media State of the "Art"

This exhibition showcases digital contents in which values are being shaped in unconventional ways from the current art market, such as NFTs - sharing passion with their communities - and digital archives of actual artworks. Witnessing the increasing utilization of NFT, the rise of a new creator economy, and the emergence of works and communities that transcend the boundaries between the physical and digital, we hope to together imagine the potentials of these changes - how they will transform values in the art world and, by extension, in the future society.

The art stage OSAKA symposium 2023 "The Door to the Future" was held.

Under the theme "The Door to the Future," specialists from various fields, including art and NFTs, gathered to engage in discussions and talk sessions from diverse viewpoints. They envisioned what the future society might look like through the lens of art and investigated the paths that should be taken toward realizing a more prosperous future for all.