Roppongi Crossing 2025: What Passes Is Time. We Are Eternal.
Roppongi Crossing, the Mori Art Museum’s acclaimed triennial exhibition series, returns at the end of 2025 with ‘What Passes Is Time. We Are Eternal.’ This eighth edition brings together an international cast of 21 artists and collectives to explore the elusive and layered concept of time through a diverse array of contemporary works.
Co-curated by Mori’s own curators and two guest curators from Asia, the exhibition is just as interdisciplinary as we’ve come to expect from Roppongi Crossing, featuring painting, sculpture, video, crafts, zines and community-based projects. Highlights include AA Murakami’s immersive installations of fog and light, Takuro Kuwata’s bold ceramics, and sound pieces by Miyu Hosoi that transform ambient noise into meditative experiences. The subtitle, drawn from a poem by Indonesian writer Sapardi Djoko Damono, reflects the show’s philosophical heart: Even as time slips past, our memories, identities and expressions endure.
Through personal, historical and ecological interpretations of time, Roppongi Crossing 2025 reconsiders the meaning of Japan in a fragmented world. It offers a poignant space for reflection, empathy and connection, where fleeting moments reveal traces of eternity.