ART FAIR TOKYO is the largest fair of its kind in Japan, featuring high-quality domestic and international galleries covering a wide range of genres and periods from antiques, arts and crafts, nihonga, and modern art to contemporary art. ART FAIR TOKYO began in 2005, and since 2007, it has been held at the Tokyo International Forum every April during the cherry blossom season. ART FAIR TOKYO offers the opportunity to enjoy and acquire art across genres and periods, and celebrates the strength and vibrancy of Tokyo’s art scene.

ART FAIR TOKYO 2010, held in April, attracted a record 50,000 visitors over its four days (including the preview day). Art fans and patrons from around the world came together, and generated vibrant sales throughout the fair. This success proved beyond doubt that ART FAIR TOKYO had established an international reputation as one of Japan’s leading art fairs. Furthermore, ART FAIR TOKYO has, over the years, become widely recognized within Japan and, at the same time, its organizational structure has been bolstered significantly.

ART FAIR TOKYO 2011 will be held with an international vision of ‘Tokyo as a city within Asia’. Not only by holding a regular fair but by improving its related-events and peripheral programs, ART FAIR TOKYO will make every effort to open art to society within Japan. We are therefore most pleased to welcome the participation of Deutsche Bank Group as our Main Sponsor of ART FAIR TOKYO 2011 for the first time, with its commitment to art for the new ideas and perspectives it spawns. ART FAIR TOKYO will develop into a new, original fair, distinguished from those held in Basel, London and Hong Kong.

At the same time as ART FAIR TOKYO will be held in Tokyo, Japan’s capital city in which traditional and modern culture exist side-by-side, we will collaborate with various members of the vibrant local art scene to showcase its attractions carefully, yet dynamically, to the world.

We hope for your understanding and continued support towards the further development of ART FAIR TOKYO 2011.

Takahiro Kaneshima
ART FAIR TOKYO Executive Director

Message from the Main Sponsor

Deutsche Bank Group (Japan) is honoured to be the main sponsor of ART FAIR TOKYO 2011, the largest art fair in Japan.

Deutsche Bank Group is a leading global financial institution operating in 73 countries, offering unparalleled products and services in investment banking, commercial banking, asset management and other financial businesses, worldwide.

At Deutsche Bank Group we regard our corporate social responsibility as an investment in society and in our own future. By living-up to our corporate social responsibilities, we build social capital in all the regions in which we operate, and we choose to do this by focusing on five areas of activities, including art, music and education.

Our approach to our commitment to art is best described by our motto, “Art works”. In line with this motto, we leverage our collection of over 56,000 works by displaying them in more than 900 of our offices worldwide, offering our employees, clients and visitors access to these highlight pieces of contemporary art. Through our commitment to art, we also support the development of young talented artists and promote projects that provide children with an opportunity to unfold their hidden potential in a new world through contemporary art. We are also well known as a patron of art through our main sponsorship of the Frieze Art Fair in London and the Hong Kong International Art Fair.

This year marks an important anniversary in the history of the close relationship between Germany and Japan, the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation signed in 1861. We are therefore especially honoured to be a part of the ART FAIR TOKYO in 2011, to support its initiative to develop an international art fair based in Japan. It is our sincere hope that ART FAIR TOKYO 2011 succeeds in broadening the audience that art attracts, and to help its audience in discovering meaning in the art they encounter.

In closing, let me take this opportunity to express our appreciation to all parties who are making this art fair possible.

Yours sincerely,

David Hatt
Chief Country Officer
Deutsche Bank Group (Japan)