Questions about the future concerned the director of the Mori Art Museum this year. Not her own, which seems assured in a career where biennial gigs and jury appearances are a regular occurrence, but that of humanity. Her Tokyo institution staged Machine Love: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art, an exhibition exploring how technology influences our emotions and relationships, with a retrospective too for Sou Fujimoto, Primordial Future Forest, in which the architect imagines ecological cities to come. Kataoka’s Chiharu Shiota show at Mori moved to MAO Asian Art Museum, Turin, and she also took charge (alongside curators Li Zhenhua and Sara Almutlaq, with whom she presented a scaled-down preview staged at the Venice Architecture Biennale) of Noor Riyadh 2025, the Saudi arts festival, which has spread to six locations. Kataoka had much to look forward to: the triennial showcase of Japanese art Roppongi Crossing returns in December, while it was announced that she will curate the fourth edition of the Helsinki Biennial with Arja Miller in 2027 (as well as select the recipient of the 2025 Ars Fennica Award, Finland’s biggest art gong).