Kishio Suga – Where Both Sides Meet

Post-war Japanese art

Museum Cobra proudly presents the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands of the influential Japanese artist Kishio Suga (1944). From 28 June to 26 October 2025, the groundbreaking works of Kishio Suga, a key figure of the minimalist Mono-ha movement, will fill the entire top floor of the museum. The exhibition offers a unique opportunity to experience his explorations of space, matter and ecology and to become acquainted with this pioneer of post-war Japanese art.

New context

With the exhibition Kishio Suga – Where Both Sides Meet, Museum Cobra presents the work of one of the most important representatives of the Japanese Mono-ha movement, which focuses on the relationship between materials and their environment. Suga's installations – often specially made for the space in which they are displayed – place materials in a new context and blur the boundaries between man, nature and art. For this exhibition, the museum opens the entire top floor, set up for large-scale installations. A combination of iconic installations, video recordings of Suga's 'activations' and wall assemblages invites us to reconsider the role of materials and the interconnectedness of everything that exists.