From February 17 through May 31 2009, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will present the most important retrospective to date of the work of the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami (b. Tokyo, 1962), one of the most celebrated contemporary artists to have emerged from Asia in the last century.

More than 90 artworks in various media including painting, sculpture, industrial design, animation and fashion, in a solo overview of his artistic career that offers an in-depth assessment of the relationship between art and mass culture.

His personal creative universe draws from traditional Japanese art, contemporary Japanese trends such as anime (animation) and manga (comics) and artistic movements such as American Pop Art and European Surrealism.


Signboard TAKASHI, 1992/2007


727-727, 2006


DOB in the Strange Forest, 1999


DOB’s March, 1995


Inochi , 2004


Installation view of Second Mission Project ko2 (1999)


Lotus Flower (Pink), 2008


Tongari-kun, 2003-2004