Light, time and perception: the Jena Art Collection is dedicating an exhibition to Japanese artist Hiroyuki Masuyama that mediates between past and future, science and poetry - an invitation to make the invisible visible.

The Jena Art Collection is presenting a major solo exhibition by Japanese artist Hiroyuki Masuyama, who has attracted worldwide attention with his luminous imagery and expansive installations. Born in Tsukuba in 1968, the artist has lived and worked in Germany since the 1990s and combines East Asian pictorial tradition with European art motifs and modern technology in his works.

Masuyama's work is characterized by a fascination with time and transience - central themes that he explores using unusual technical and aesthetic means. For his famous light boxes and photographic compositions, he often superimposes hundreds of individual shots taken over days, weeks or seasons. This results in images that condense the past, present and future into a shimmering moment.

In Jena, Masuyama turns his gaze to the sky - as a place of longing, but also of change. His works deal with nature and technology, the fragility of the earth as a habitat and the question of how man tries to capture the fleeting. At the same time, the exhibition reflects on perception itself: How is an image created? And what happens when time becomes light? The poetic power of his works unfolds in the field of tension between precision and sensitivity. Masuyama's art is never loud, but always of great intensity - a meditative examination of the world that inspires wonder and reflection in equal measure.
December 6, 2025 to March 8, 2026