Until last year Kataoka, director of Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum, was president of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art. With her tenure now ended, she has had time for a new role, becoming director of Japan’s new National Center for Art Research, which will promote links between cultural institutions and other fields, with the aim of producing, ‘a positive impact on health and wellbeing’ for the nation. As such, her aim in exploring what an art institution can be in the present continues. At Mori her programme has been similarly socially engaged, with the exhibition Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living, featuring artists ranging from Kudo Tetsumi to Ian Cheng and Agnes Denes, in October; the innovatively organised World Classroom in April (in which works were divided across an average school curriculum, from physical education to maths); and an enquiry into human wellbeing and the built environment via Heatherwick Studio’s Building Soulfulness in March. As if two jobs weren’t enough, she is also an adviser to the next Bangkok Art Biennale and appeared at Museum Summit in Hong Kong.
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