Upcoming Events

Making Waves: The Art of Japanese Woodblock Print, held at York Art Gallery, surveys 300 years of printmaking from the 17th to 21st centuries. Featuring over 100 works by Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro and others, it includes rare prints, books, kimonos, armour and major UK loans. The exhibition extends into a karesansui garden, inviting reflection on harmony and nature.

More than 25 leading architects have designed miniature treehouses for living bonsai trees - each one a serious piece of thinking made small enough to hold in your gaze. Free to explore, surprising at every turn. At the Museum of Architecture in Oxford Square, Connaught Village, in London.

This summer, the hotly anticipated world premiere of Death Note: The Musical comes to the Barbican theatre! With over 30 million copies sold worldwide, the legendary manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata is reimagined for London in collaboration with original producers HoriPro.

This event, held at The Old Piano Shop Gallery in Norwich, showcases Dr Clara Momoko Geber‑Mérida’s photography documenting Tokyo’s craftswomen in Arakawa, capturing traditional techniques such as metal carving, cloisonné enamel, Edo lettering and woodblock printing, and making visible the skill and dedication of women who have long worked behind the scenes of Japan’s craft industry.

This major exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery in London reframes the history of Japanese photography through the work of 27 women artists, from the 1950s to the present day. Featuring over 200 photographs, videos, installations, and rare photobooks, it celebrates both internationally renowned and long-overlooked voices, offering an expansive portrait of how women have shaped and redefined the medium across generations.

Japan Fest Buxton returns this September to the stunning Pavilion Gardens in Buxton, Derbyshire for a full day celebrating Japanese culture. Enjoy live performances, authentic food, cultural activities, shopping and interactive experiences, bringing together tradition, anime and family fun.

Joy Like Time explores how memory, ritual and renewal intersect through the work of internationally renowned artists Marina Abramović, Kalliopi Lemos and Gillian Wearing. Tracking the careers of a select group of artists in depth, this exhibition looks at how they have found life’s meaning through their practice via craft and repetition and asks, if duration marks everything from commutes to lifespans, from harvests to histories, might it also help us confront one of humanity’s most enduring questions: what is the meaning of life?

Beneath the Great Wave, at The Whitworth,The University of Manchester, brings together exceptional ukiyo-e prints from Edo-period Japan. The exhibition explores the art of Hokusai and Hiroshige, two visionary artists whose images have shaped how we see nature, landscape and everyday life.

The exhibition is on view at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, showcasing the complete set of Hokusai’s iconic Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. Visitors can see masterpieces such as The Great Wave and Red Fuji, along with rare variants and well-preserved prints. Drawn from the Iuchi Collection and presented in collaboration with the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, the exhibition offers a rare opportunity to experience Hokusai’s full artistic vision of Japan’s sacred mountain.