To mark its 25th anniversary, Pola Museum of Art in Hakone, Kanagawa is presenting "Collection Cinema," a special program showcasing two newly acquired video works from its collection. The program runs in two parts from June 17, 2026 through April 7, 2027, at Exhibition Room 3 in the museum.
Pola Museum of Art opened in Hakone, Kanagawa in 2002, with a collection centered on 19th and 20th-century Western painting, particularly Impressionism. In recent years, the museum has also been actively acquiring works by leading international contemporary artists.
The program runs concurrently with the exhibition "New Eyes — Monet and 21st-Century Art."
COLLECTION CINEMA I: June 17 – November 30, 2026
Christian Marclay Door
Christian Marclay is known for his innovative practice at the intersection of visual art and sound culture, working across performance, collage, photography, sculpture, video, and installation for over 40 years.
Door is a major work created over more than a decade through citation and collage drawn from an enormous range of films from different eras and cultures. Carefully collected and categorized scenes involving doors flow seamlessly into the next door in another film, forming a labyrinthine world that moves freely through cinema history and loops infinitely, generating richly layered images through the illusion of temporal and spatial continuity.
About Christian Marclay
Born in California in 1955, Marclay spent his formative years in Switzerland and currently lives in London. Over more than 40 years, he has pursued pioneering work at the intersection of visual art and sound culture through diverse media including performance, collage, photography, sculpture, video, and installation. In 2011, his celebrated work The Clock won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. The work was also shown at the Yokohama Triennale that same year and has continued to captivate audiences at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2024) and the Neue Nationalgalerie, Germany (2025). Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Centre Pompidou, France (2022), Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan (2021), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2019), Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2019), Aargauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland (2015), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (2010).
COLLECTION CINEMA II: December 4, 2026 – April 7, 2027
Gerhard Richter Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version
Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version is a video installation created by Richter in collaboration with film director Corinna Belz, composer Rebecca Saunders, and trumpeter Marco Blaauw, based on paintings he produced earlier. The work delivers an immersive experience through sound from 13 speakers and vivid imagery that continually generates and transforms. It represents a new phase of the "Strip" series developed since the 2010s and stands as one of the summations of the artist's recent practice.
About Gerhard Richter
Born in Dresden in 1932 and currently based in Cologne, Richter spent his early years under Nazi Germany and decided to become a painter at the age of 16. For over 60 years, he has continuously explored and renewed the conditions of painting — its principles, limits, and possibilities — moving between medieval religious painting and German Romanticism. He is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential living artists. Recent major solo exhibitions have included a landmark retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, France, as well as shows at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (2022), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2020), Tate Modern / Neue Nationalgalerie / Centre Pompidou (2011–2012), and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2002). Pola Museum of Art holds works by Richter including Grey House (1966), Abstract Painting (649-2) (1987), and Strip (926-3) (2012).
Exhibition Details
Exhibition: Collection Cinema
Venue: Pola Museum of Art, Exhibition Room 3
Address: 1285 Kozushima, Sengokuhara, Hakone, Ashigarashimo, Kanagawa
Period I (Collection Cinema I): June 17 – November 30, 2026
Period II (Collection Cinema II): December 4, 2026 – April 7, 2027
Note: The museum will be closed on December 1 (Tuesday). The "Collection Cinema" gallery will be closed for rotation on December 2 (Wednesday) and 3 (Thursday).
Hours: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (last admission 4:30 PM)
Admission: Adults ¥2,200 / University and high school students ¥1,700 / Junior high school students and younger: free
Holders of a disability certificate and one accompanying person: ¥1,100 (all prices tax included; group discounts available)
Official Website: https://www.polamuseum.or.jp
