21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art

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Mission Statement of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa has been established with the mission of generating new culture and revitalizing its community. Innovative city planning has become intensely important to our society, which faces a historical turning point in the 21st century. Through a spirit of cooperation, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa will seek to awaken Kanazawa's creative energy and become a compelling regional cultural attraction.
1. To be a museum that moves in step with contemporary society.
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa will allow visitors to experience and enjoy the world's foremost contemporary art. The richly diverse art of our times cuts across genres and transcends barriers of time and space. By providing experiences of such art, the Museum will perform as a bridge between the region and the art of the future.
2. To create a participation-oriented museum along with citizens and revitalize the community.
We hope that 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa will serve as a new "town square" for the city, where people can freely partake in education, creation, entertainment, and communication. Through its cooperative engagement with people and industries, the Museum will endeavor to explore and generate completely new activities as an art museum.
3. To be an art museum open to the world, where regional traditional arts connect with the future.
The Museum will perform as a laboratory for exploring, from an inter-cultural perspective, ways of ensuring the viability of Kanazawa's distinctive cultural traditions, dating from feudal times, amid the diversifying values of the 21st century.
4. To grow in spirit along with children.
The museum will serve as an open classroom, providing the optimal environment for children to see, touch, and experience art. As children grow, so will the Museum grow and continue to evolve for generations to come.

represented artists

Doug Aitken      Francis Alÿs      Cecile Andrieu      Maja Bajevic      Matthew Barney      Michael Brennand-Wood      Lee Bul      Chris Burden      Scott Chaseling      Lygia Clark      Francesco Clemente      Tony Cragg      Pippin Drysdale      Olafur Eliasson      Leandro Erlich      Jan Fabre      Jan Fisar      Kazunori Fujii      Kitade Fujio      Mae Fumio      Katsura Funakoshi      Carmela García      Isa Genzken      Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster      Johan Grimonprez      Kohji Hatakeyama      Mona Hatoum      Federico Herrero      Itabashi Hiromi      Damien Hirst      Kojima Hisaya      Carsten Höller      Rebecca Horn      Fabrice Hybert      Runa Islam      Anish Kapoor      Joseph Kosuth      Guillermo Kuitca      Yayoi Kusama      Rosemary Laing

Luisa Lambri      Bodil Manz      Gordon Matta-Clark      Cildo Meireles      Ana Mendieta      Beatriz Milhazes      Yasumasa Morimura      Vik Muniz      Takashi Murakami      Shirin Neshat      Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba      Carsten Nicolai      Walter Niedermayr      Motohiko Odani      Gabriel Orozco      Tony Oursler      Jorge Pardo      Philippe Parreno      Giuseppe Penone      Grayson Perry      Gerhard Richter      Pipilotti Rist      Hiraki Sawa      Yutaka Sone      Thomas Struth      Do-Ho Suh      Sarah Sze      Fiona Tan      Atsuko Tanaka      Wolfgang Tillmans      Janaina Tschäpe      James Turrell      Luc Tuymans      Marijke van Warmerdam      Magnus Wallin      Andy Warhol      Sislej Xhafa      Kenji Yanobe