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ROPPONGI ART NIGHT 2025

HAPPENINGText: Sébastien Raineri

Beyond the large-scale installations and headline exhibitions, Roppongi Art Night 2025 also places strong emphasis on engagement, accessibility, and collaboration. A rich variety of programs invite visitors to experience it directly through workshops, performances, and inclusive initiatives.

One of the festival’s distinctive features is its commitment to inclusivity. The “Accessible Roppongi Art Night” initiative offers barrier-free tours and experiences designed to ensure that audiences of all ages and abilities can participate fully. This program reflects the festival’s ambition to reimagine the city as an open stage where art belongs to everyone.


Namjae Seo, POLOSSEUM

Participation is central to the event’s spirit. In public spaces and partner venues, audiences encounter interactive installations and workshops where they can contribute their own voices, movements, and creations. From co-creating inflatable monuments with circus artist Namjae Seo to joining percussion ensemble TAGO in rhythmic street performances, visitors are encouraged to dissolve the boundary between performer and spectator.


TAGO, BEAT of KOREA THE DRUM SHAMAN

In addition, educational and community-oriented programs broaden the event’s scope. Workshops for children, family-friendly events, and artist talks cultivate intergenerational dialogue and nurture future audiences. Collaborations with local businesses and institutions integrate art into the city’s social and economic fabric, transforming Roppongi into a laboratory for civic imagination.

Roppongi Art Night 2025 reaffirms its place as one of Tokyo’s most vital cultural festivals, an event where art transcends galleries to animate the city itself. By uniting monumental public works, daring performances, and participatory programs under the theme of “A Festival of City, Art, and Future,” the festival demonstrates the transformative power of creativity in shaping urban life, where art becomes a shared language connecting diverse communities and generations.

Roppongi Art Night 2025: “A Festival of City, Art, and Future”
Date: September 26th – 28th, 2025
Place: Roppongi Hills, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Midtown, Suntory Museum of Art, 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Roppongi Shopping Street, and other cooperating facilities and public spaces in the Roppongi area.
Tel: +81 (0)50 5541 8600
https://roppongiartnight.com

Text: Sébastien Raineri
Photos: Courtesy of Roppongi Art Night Executive Committee

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