Aichi Triennale 2025 Explores Regeneration Through Ceramics and Global Dialogue
The 2025 Aichi Triennale, under the direction of Hoor Al Qasimi, draws its name from the 1970 poetry anthology by Syrian poet Adonis. The event will take place across the Aichi Arts Center, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, and Seto City, highlighting themes of destruction and renewal. Featured works include Noah's Tombs (2025) by Dala Nasser, Sky Revolution (2023) by Bassim Al Shaker, Stoned Past (2025) by Hrair Sarkissian, and Bait Al-Mal (2019) by Kamala Ibrahim Ishag. Additional contributors encompass Solomon Enos, Sakura Koretsune, Rui Sasaki, Wangechi Mutu, Izumi Kato, Yasmin Smith, Akane Saijo, Adrián Villar Rojas, Kwon Byungjun, ikkibawiKrrr, and Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme. The triennale will focus on ceramics, intergenerational dialogue, and global challenges.
Key facts
- Aichi Triennale 2025 is led by first non-Japanese artistic director Hoor Al Qasimi
- Title references Syrian poet Adonis's 1970 collection 'A Time Between Ashes and Roses'
- Exhibition spans Aichi Arts Center, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, and Seto City
- Features works by artists from Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Hawaii, Japan, Argentina, Korea, and Palestine
- Ceramics serve as central medium connecting ancestral, geological, and human time
- Includes newly commissioned site-specific works in abandoned school and outdoor spaces
- Korean collective ikkibawiKrrr collaborates with local Hashinoshita Center community
- Explores themes of destruction, renewal, and regeneration amid ongoing global crises
Entities
Artists
- Hoor Al Qasimi
- Adonis
- Dala Nasser
- Bassim Al Shaker
- Hrair Sarkissian
- Kamala Ibrahim Ishag
- Solomon Enos
- Sakura Koretsune
- Rui Sasaki
- Wangechi Mutu
- Izumi Kato
- Yasmin Smith
- Akane Saijo
- Adrián Villar Rojas
- Kwon Byungjun
- Basel Abbas
- Ruanne Abou-Rahme
- Jiwon Yu
Institutions
- Aichi Triennale
- Aichi Arts Center
- Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum
- Raqqa Museum
- Hashinoshita Center
- ikkibawiKrrr
- Former Seto Fukagawa Elementary School
- Nihon Kosen bathhouse
Locations
- Aichi
- Japan
- Seto City
- Turkey
- Jordan
- Lebanon
- Baghdad
- Iraq
- New York
- United States
- Syria
- Raqqa
- Sudan
- Honolulu
- Hawaii
- Hiroshima
- Sydney
- Australia
- Kyoto
- Argentina
- Korea
- Seoul
- South Korea
- Palestine
- Yemen
- East Africa