作者：Travis Jeppesen

自2021年創立以來，東京藝術周（Art Week Tokyo，AWT）為訪客和本地居民提供了一個全新視角，感受這座城市低調卻充滿活力的藝術生態。今年，第五屆藝術周定於2026年11月初舉行－－此時的東京秋高氣爽，正是到訪的最佳時節。本屆東京藝術周將呈獻由42間藝廊及藝術空間組成的強大陣容，其中包括數間新加入的國際參展藝廊，標誌著項目日益擴大的全球影響力。此外，13場機構展覽將展出本土及國際藝術家的作品。

Photography and Montmartre’s artistic past

Another must-see for photography lovers is the small, independent museum LE BAL, tucked away down a dead-end street behind the Place de Clichy in the north of the city. LE BAL has a vibrant program of exhibitions, talks, screenings, and workshops dedicated to photography, video, film, and new media and is currently showing highlights from The Wilson Collection, including 20th-century greats like Daido Moriyama, Francesca Woodman, and Walker Evans. But before it was an exhibition space, LE BAL was a community project; its educational center, La Fabrique du Regard, has worked in more than 275 neighborhoods and with more than 650 artists to teach thousands of young people about the power of the image and how they might document their lives.

A short walk up the hill from LE BAL, the Musée de Montmartre sits under the ice-cream cone spires of the Sacré-Coeur basilica. Despite its proximity to the well-trodden route through Place du Tertre, the museum is often missed off a Paris itinerary. Yet this building is where art history was made: Auguste Renoir, Suzanne Valadon, Maurice Utrillo, and Raoul Dufy (among others) lived on this street. An exhibition about the area’s rich cultural past and a recreation of Valadon’s cluttered, glass-roofed studio give a sense of the area’s artistic effervescence at the turn of the century.

From this viewpoint, visitors can look over the Montmartre vineyard spilling down the hill toward the iconic cabaret, Lapin Agile, where artists and writers such as Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, and Guillaume Apollinaire were regulars. It continued to attract a bohemian crowd long after they’d moved on. Catapult 50 years into the future, and you’d occasionally find legendary French singer Serge Gainsbourg playing piano there before he landed his regular slot at the cabaret Milord l’Arsouille in the first arrondissement.

然而，圍繞今年盛事最熱烈的討論，主要集中在擴大規模的「東京藝術周聚焦」（AWT Focus）及其大膽的全新策展方式。自2023年作為「兼具歷史視野的策展式銷售平台」推出以來，「東京藝術周聚焦」一直是東京藝術周的核心單元。去年，在Adam Szymczyk的策展下，以「何為真實？」（What is Real？）為題的「東京藝術周聚焦」試圖重新定義我們身處超級媒介化世界所面臨的挑戰，在這個世界中，任何確定性都似乎愈發難以捉摸。今年，東京藝術周沒有邀請單一策展人或設定單一主題，轉而邀請了十位策展人，於全城十處空間展開十場展覽計劃。

東京藝術周聯合創辦人、Take Ninagawa藝廊總監蜷川敦子（Atsuko Ninagawa）表示：「『東京藝術周聚焦』從一開始就被構想為策展實驗的試驗場，也是在日本提升大眾對策展實踐認知的載體。在過去三屆成功舉辦的基礎上－－每一屆都由一位策展人在一個核心場館策劃一場主題調研展－－我們認為是時候將視野拓展到多元視角與多個空間了。」

這次大規模擴展在一定程度上受到了維也納「curated by」項目的啟發。主辦方公開徵集了策展方案，最終遴選由東京Misako & Rosen藝廊的Misako Rosen與維也納施華特畫廊（Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder）的Raphael Oberhuber共同完成，後者亦參與了「curated by」項目的組織工作。

Giacometti’s studio, with an art-filled stay in a hôtel particulier

House museums offer a sense of getting close to a famous artist, offering a sometimes reassuring insight into the everyday mess in which they lived and worked. You can’t get more intimate than sculptor Alberto Giacometti’s famously small studio, located in Paris’s other historical artistic hub of Montparnasse. It has been faithfully reconstructed at the Institut Giacometti, inside a beautiful Art Deco mansion a short walk from where he actually worked – thanks to the zeal of his widow Annette Arm, who kept the room totally intact, from his scrawlings on the walls to his paint palette and the cigarette butts in ashtrays. You can see a selection of his works in rotating exhibitions alongside the recreated studio. Nearby in the Latin Quarter, an artistic French apartment in a 1910 hôtel particulier offers a different kind of immersive experience: a private home with a marble fireplace, four-meter-high ceilings, and walls hung with its owner's personal art collection.

這些展覽並未試圖將一切整合到一個包羅萬象的統一敘事之下，而是呈獻了多元的策展視角，這恰好呼應了2026年藝術界日益顯露的多極化趨勢。在XYZcollective空間，Olivier Mignon（金澤項目空間Keijiban的營運者）將匯聚看似不相協調的作品：增鹽太朗（Taro Masushio）根植於酷兒題化經驗的攝影，與Sophie Nys圍繞物體與語言之間關係展開探索的雕塑。與此同時，Take Ninagawa藝廊將把現年90歲的鴨治晃次（Koji Kamoji）的作品帶回日本－－他於1959年離開日本前往波蘭。該展覽由曾任職於華沙扎切塔國家美術館（Zachęta – National Gallery of Art）的Maria Brewińska策劃。在Space Un－－一個致力於非洲離散群體藝術家的新藝廊兼駐留項目－－英國策展人兼作家艾科．埃舜（Ekow Eshun）將策劃Julianknxx的個展，後者是英國當下最受關注的新銳藝術家之一，其跨學科實踐涵蓋影像、表演和詩歌。此次在Space Un的展覽，Julianknxx將展出一組以鹽為靈感的作品，並將在東京藝術周期間組織一系列場外合唱表演。

此外，東京還通過「東京藝術周錄像」（AWT Video）－－一個以影像媒介為核心的專題項目－－成為了影像藝術愛好者的目的地。今年將由上海外灘美術館（Rockbund Art Museum）館長及首席策展人朱筱蕤（X Zhu-Nowell）擔任策劃，入選作品資訊預計將於八月公佈。