Discover Osaka Art & Design 2025 Highlights

Four weeks of creative immersion at Osaka Art & Design 2025

Return for his third edition, Osaka Art & Design, transforms the city from May 28th to June 24th, 2025 into a present of creativity on an urban scale. Increase the footprint to around 60 venues that Event combines a rich network of art, design and architecture in Umeda, Nakanoshima, Shinsaibashi, Namba and the newly added district of Abeno, rotation Osaka In a walkable museum of contemporary culture. Visitors can meet a wide range of works of art, design objects and fashion Pieces with several works that can be bought via galleries, department stores and public rooms.

Finds next to Expo 2025 OsakaOAD 2025 positions the city as a dynamic phase for global cultural dialogue. United under the topic of “overlapping-only encounters”, the program combines up-and-coming and established talents from Japan and abroad through large standards InstallationsPresent Exhibitionsand interdisciplinary showcases. The highlights include a collaborative installation of Sayaka Miyata and Mirodi Hirota, which is based on the North afterno-south competitor of Osaka Umeda Twin Tower North and the windows of the Hankyu department store as well as a special presentation of the fashion designer Joanna Hawrots, which is made by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute Institute Institute Institute Institute of Poland is organized.

Osaka Art & Design 2025 Key Visual | All pictures with friendly permission from Osaka Art & Design

Yokai unit

This installation combines folklore with playful urban interventions and represents Yokai-traditional Japanese spirits through a colorful, pop-inspired lens. The creatures, which unexpectedly arise from city gaps, enliven the streets of Osaka with humor and secret, while a sculptural form based on the Hokkai Jo-in Mudra gives an contemplative layer of compassion and coexistence.

Exhibition time: May 28 – June 10, 2025

Location: Nankai Namba Station 2F Concourse

participating creator: Maki Takato

Yokai unit by Maki Takato

Hawrot: portable art – invisible threads

Joanna Hawrots Invisible Threads exhibition examines the woman through portable art and combines Polish textile traditions with the Japanese Kimono culture. The works were presented together with portraits of the photographer Zuza Krajewska.

Exhibition time: May 31 – June 24, 2025

Location: Daimaru Shinsaibashi

participating creator: Joanna Hawrot

Hawrot: Wearable Art – Invisible threads by Joanna Hawrot | Image © Zuza Krajewska

The new miracle museum: the gene of curiosity

Inspired by Ernst Haeckel's illustrations and global textile motifs, the artist Sayaka Miyata is involved in a poetic fusion of natural sciences and art. In collaboration with designer Midori Hirota, she reveals a large -scale installation in Osaka Umeda Twin Towers North to merge manual vehicles and AI to arouse curiosity and arouse the atmosphere of a amazement museum.

Exhibition time: May 8 – June 23, 2025

Location: Osaka Umeda Twin Towers North 1f Concourse

participating creator: Sayaka Miyata And Midori Hirota