Mori readies Ron Mueck

Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum will open a Ron Mueck exhibition on April 29, bringing the sculptor’s hyperreal human figures to Roppongi Hills through September 23. (mori.art.museum) The museum lists the show at its 53rd-floor space in Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, with opening hours of 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and shorter 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. hours on most Tuesdays. Advance tickets went on sale on March 2, according to the museum’s website. (mori.art.museum) Mori Art Museum is organizing the exhibition with the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, which says the Tokyo presentation runs from Wednesday, April 29, 2026, to Wednesday, September 23, 2026. The foundation says the show follows earlier stops in Paris in 2023, then Milan and Seoul before Tokyo. (fondationcartier.com) The Tokyo exhibition brings together 11 works spanning Mueck’s career, with a focus on large sculptures including *Mass* from 2016-2017. Mori’s press materials say six of the works will be shown in Japan for the first time. (mori.co.jp) The show is Mueck’s second solo exhibition in Japan, after a retrospective at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa in 2008. That gap gives Tokyo museums a rare new chance to present his work at scale to Japanese audiences. (fondationcartier.com) Mueck, who was born in Australia in 1958 and is based in the United Kingdom, is known for figurative sculpture that shifts the size of the body dramatically while keeping skin, hair, and expression intensely lifelike. Fondation Cartier says the figures range from newborns to elderly people and turn emotions such as loneliness, anxiety, and resilience into physical form. (fondationcartier.com) Before turning fully to sculpture in the mid-1990s, Mueck worked for more than 20 years in film and advertising. Mori’s press release links that background to the exacting surfaces and physical detail that made works such as *Pinocchio* and later *Angel* central to his reputation. (art-view.roppongihills.com) The Tokyo presentation also includes photographs and films by French photographer and filmmaker Gautier Deblonde documenting Mueck’s studio process. As the opening nears, Mori is framing the exhibition as one of its main spring-to-summer draws, with related gallery talks and school programs already on the calendar. (fondationcartier.com)