Latest Events in Osaka(February Updated)

TREASURE, a global boy group that debuted under YG ENTERTAINMENT on August 7, 2020, swept all the rookie awards in 2021, earning the title of "monster rookie." In 2024, their second JAPAN TOUR "2024 TREASURE TOUR [REBOOT] IN JAPAN" was held in 7 cities and 8 venues for 16 performances, breaking the record of their first tour with a total of 300,000 people. In July of the same year, they held the fan meeting "2024 TREASURE FAN MEETING ~ WONDERLAND ~" with 23 performances in 6 cities and a total of 170,000 people, an unprecedented scale for a Korean boy band. With a total of 39 shows on both tours and a total audience of nearly 500,000 people, they are attracting a lot of attention as a "live performance-oriented" global boy band.

Surrealism, a movement defined by André Breton in 1924, emerged under the influence of Freud's psychoanalysis, which focuses on the unconscious and dreams. Initially it emerged as a literary trend, but its influence gradually spread to a wide range of fields, including visual arts such as objects, paintings, photography, and video, as well as advertising, fashion, and interior design. Surrealism brought about an artistic revolution, and while it also contained political elements, it also spread to scenes closely related to everyday life, approaching society from both political and everyday perspectives. This project aims to deconstruct Surrealism, which has had an overwhelming presence and expanded to visual arts and ultimately society as a whole, using the medium of expression as a keyword, and reconstruct the image of Surrealism.

The Nemophila Festival is held in Maishima, located next to Yumeshima, the site of the Osaka Expo. It is a major spring event where you can enjoy the nemophila flowers blooming in full bloom across a vast area of ​​approximately 44,000 square meters while feeling the pleasant sea breeze and overlooking the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in the distance. Held from April to May, when the nemophila flowers are at their best, the harmony of the nemophila flowers that dye the entire hill blue, the vast sea of ​​Osaka Bay, and the clear blue sky is a spectacular sight that you'll want to capture in photos.

TOMORROW X TOGETHER (TXT) is set to arrive in Japan, bringing their ACT: TOMORROW world tour to Japanese stages. Following their initial performances in Seoul and a major tour across North America, members Soobin, Yeonjun, Beomgyu, Taehyun, and Huening Kai are ready to showcase their spectacular performances in Japan. On July 21st, they released their fourth album, "The Star Chapter: TOGETHER," which marks the beginning of this tour. The tour name "ACT: TOMORROW" perfectly embodies TXT's unique identity as "stage storytellers," renowned for combining narrative storytelling with stunning stage performances and immersive live experiences.

Wada Mayuko is a contemporary artist born in Osaka, Japan in 1985. She expresses her artistic language through painting and installation, and her works often explore the relationship between image and space, form and expression. The exhibition includes Wada Mayuko's recent paintings and related works, showcasing her unique exploration of image, structure, and materials (such as her focus on birds, forms, and constructions).

This exhibition will showcase distinctive toys from across Japan from the museum's collection, highlighting the prayers embodied in their materials, patterns, and shapes. We hope these regional toys will evoke a sense of nostalgia, even if it's your first time seeing them.

XG’s second world tour is officially confirmed! Less than a year after the end of their first world tour "XG 1st WORLD TOUR 'The first HOWL'", which held 47 shows in 35 cities worldwide, XG is about to embark on a brand new global tour. As their first tour after releasing their debut studio album, XG will showcase their unique worldview and stunning stage performances, further defining and proving the new music genre they have created, "X-POP", and fully demonstrating XG's true charm. The tour will start in Japan in February 2026, then move on to Asia, North America, the UK and Europe, Australia, and Central and South America. Advancing towards an unprecedented and boundless new realm. "XG WORLD TOUR: THE CORE" is an event you simply can't miss!

This exhibition brings together a wide range of works by Akihiko Kinutani, from his early works created during his time at Tokyo University of the Arts, to murals and reproductions from his studies in Venice, to his original work "Goddess of the Silver Peak" created for the official poster of the Nagano Winter Olympics, "No Sparrow and Shichika" created when he was seventy, and his posthumous work "Treasure Ship Crossing a Sea of ​​Colorful Clouds." Spanning from the 1960s to the 2020s, the exhibition showcases the evolution of Akihiko Kinutani's unique artistic world.

This exhibition showcases a selection of paintings created by Zhang Jian in Osaka between 2024 and 2026. It traces the artist's shift from Impressionist expression to more personal and emerging modes of expression. As with his previous work, the artist's work remains grounded in a sustained focus on nature. However, in his recent works, through experimental methods rooted in directly existing environments, Zhang Jian increasingly captures subtle psychological feelings arising between people, as well as fleeting moments of light created by nature, resulting in works that are more improvisational and sensory.