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YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND

Yoko Ono with Glass Hammer 1967 from HALF-A-WIND SHOW, Lisson Gallery, London, 1967. Photograph © Clay Perry / Artwork © Yoko Ono.

Yoko Ono with Glass Hammer 1967 from HALF-A-WIND SHOW, Lisson Gallery, London, 1967. Photograph © Clay Perry / Artwork © Yoko Ono.

  
The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, in cooperation with Tate Modern, presents a comprehensive solo exhibition celebrating the ground­breaking and influential work of artist and activist Yoko Ono (b. 1933 in Tokyo). Ono is a trailblazer of early conceptual and partici­patory art, film and performance, a celebrated musician, and a formidable campaigner for world peace. Spanning seven decades of the artist’s powerful, multidisciplinary practice from the mid­-1950s to now, YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND traces the development of Ono’s innovative work and its enduring impact on contemporary culture. The exhibition in K20 brings together over 200 works including instruction pieces and scores, installations, films, music and photography, revealing a radical approach to language, art and participation that continues to speak to the present moment.
  
On now at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Grabbepl. 5, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany, until 16 March 2025. Find out more here.
  
  

YOKO ONO: MEND PIECE


  
Bangkok Kunsthalle in partnership with A4 Arts Foundation and Proyectoamil presents ‘Mend Piece’ by Yoko Ono. The 1960’s was a time of social change as well as the breaking of artistic conventions. From this wealth of intellectual and radical thought, Ono formed her early artistic practice. Conceived in 1966, ‘Mend Piece’ emerged as an early exploration of participatory art, challenging the very definition of what art can be.
  
On now at Bangkok Kunsthalle, 599 Pantachit Alley, Pom Prap, Pom Prap Sattru Phai, Bangkok 10100, Thailand. Find out more here.
  
  

JOIN US IN NUTOPIA

John & Yoko waving white handkerchieves as The Nutopian Flag at a press conference having announced The Declaration Of Nutopia at the Association of The Bar of the City of New York, 42 W44th Street, NYC, 2 April 1973. (Popperfoto/Getty Images)

John & Yoko waving white handkerchieves as The Nutopian Flag at a press conference having announced The Declaration Of Nutopia
at the Association of The Bar of the City of New York, 42 W44th Street, NYC, 2 April 1973. (Popperfoto/Getty Images)

  
  
Dear Friends,

Nutopia is a country that exists in all of us. John and I created this imaginary world. We called a press conference and produced a white handkerchief from our pockets and said “This is a flag to Surrender to Peace.” Not Fight for Peace, but “Surrender” to Peace was the important bit. All of us represent Nutopia. Let’s all wave the white flag or handkerchief in our minds and say, ” I love all of me” and have lots of fun. Because we deserve it. Each one of us.

John had said that we were all Ambassadors of Nutopia. And so we are. When you come to our apartment, you’ll see that there is a gold plaque on the kitchen door, that says Nutopian Embassy. John put it there. Strangely enough, now friends just like to come in from that door, and not the front door. It seems the plaque made the kitchen door our front door.

Ambassadors of Nutopia – Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace and let people know to IMAGINE PEACE. Pretty soon, the whole world will realize that we all belong to Nutopia. Together, we will let the other planets know that that’s what’s happening here on our planet – that we are all together, and living life in Peace.

Lots of love,


  
Join in the conversation at forum.citizenofnutopia.com.
  

Excerpted from ‘On the Day of the Birth of Nutopia‘, 2008 by Yoko Ono.

  
  

EX-IT AT PALAZZO DELLA RAGIONE, PADUA


Palazzo della Ragione in Padua welcomes Ex It, Yoko Ono’s site-specific installation on peace (until 6 Jan 2025) – one hundred wooden coffins of different sizes with olive trees growing from within as a metaphor for the resilience of life and the vitality of nature.

Yoko: I had the opportunity to visit Padua, Italy. I was taken to an ancient stone palace, built many centuries ago: Palazzo della Ragione, built in 1218. Without giving me any explanation, a man took me up to the second floor. In front of me now opened a huge space, similar to a ballroom. Suddenly, in my vision, I saw many people lined up in a row in the room. What was going on? At that moment, the person who had brought me there explained to me that that was a room where executions were carried out. It was not a ballroom. I saw many, many coffins of men, women and children filling the room. Eventually, trees sprouted from each of the coffins. The trees became a forest. Birds sang all around … and I began to cry. That’s how this work was born. It is the memory of every race, every country. It is the memory of genocide: the pain, the horror and the salvation. The dead wanted us to remember, I think. Our tears will help heal the memory.


 

WISH TREE FOR YOKO ONO


Make a Birthday Wish on the Webby Award-winning ‘Wish Tree for Yoko’ at wishtreeforyokoono.com.

To celebrate Yoko Ono’s birthday on 18 February, Sean Ono Lennon made a virtual ‘Wish Tree’ for people all over the world to post their wishes online and (in association with One Tree Planted) plant real trees in Yoko’s honor.

We hope to gather as many wishes and plant as many trees as possible to honor this incredible woman.

Sean Ono Lennon says: “My mother is a real life tree hugger. If we ever walk past a tree of any significance she inevitably stops and hugs the tree with incredible enthusiasm. Since 9 is a very special number in her Universe, I thought we should do something special for her 90th birthday. So I made a virtual Wish Tree, like the Wish Trees she often makes for museums and galleries. I wanted to give the whole world an opportunity to make a wish for her, and plant a tree in her honor. Make a wish. Plant a tree. Wish Yoko a happy birthday. It’s that simple.”

To find out more about Yoko’s original ‘Wish Tree’ installations and the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER, her tribute to John, go here.

‘Wish Tree for Yoko Ono’ has been realised by James Swindells and Loud Beings for Sean Ono Lennon and was awarded the 2024 Webby Award for Website and Mobile Site Technical Achievement.

 


 


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Events & Exhibitions

Wish Tree Garden at Copenhagen Contemporary

Wish Trees at UCD’s new Shrem Museum

ARISING - Call to Action

Air Capsules at Museum of Jewish Heritage, NYC

My Mommy Is Beautiful & Helmets with A Piece of Sky at Reykjavik Art Museum

Play It By Trust & Map Piece at Reykjavik Art Museum

ARISING - Call to Action

Bed Peace film at Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Current

  • Group Show: 2023 - Extreme Tension Art between Politics and Society 1945 – 2000

    Neue Nationalgalerie, Potsdamer Str. 50, 10785 Berlin, Germany - map
    ON NOW until Sun 28 Sep 2025


  • Group Show: SOUND MACHINES


    ON NOW until Sun 01 Mar 2099

    Ongoing. Online exhibition organized by MoMA and Feral File. link


  • YOKO ONO: WISH TREES FOR PEACE

    Château La Coste, 2750 Route De La Cride, 13610 Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France - map
    ON NOW until Thu 31 Dec 2099


  • Group Show: Handle with Care: Getting to the Heart of What Matters, featuring Yoko Ono’s MEND PIECE, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art version (1966/2021)

    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA - map
    ON NOW until Mon 31 Dec 2029

    Visitors are invited to participate in MEND PIECE, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art version  - Friday to Sunday, 11 am – 4 pm on Floor 4 of SFMOMA.


  • Group Show: What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms


    ON NOW until Tue 22 Jul 2025

    includes Yoko Ono’s MEND PIECE, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art version (1966/2021)
    link


  • Group Show: Hans Ulrich Obrist Archives – Chapter 4: Gustav Metzger – All of Us Together

    LUMA Arles, Parc des Ateliers, 33 Av. Victor Hugo, 13200 Arles, France - map
    ON NOW until Sat 31 May 2025


  • Collection Show: MAPPING THE 60S - Art Histories from the MUMOK Collections

    mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien, Austria - map
    ON NOW until Sun 01 Feb 2026


  • Group Show: Mapping the 60s: Art Histories from the Mumok Collections

    mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien, Austria - map
    ON NOW until Sun 01 Feb 2026


  • Collection Show: THIS IS TOMORROW

    Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 30-32, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany - map
    ON NOW until Wed 31 Dec 2025


  • Group Show: Connecting Bodies: Asian Women Artists

    MMCA (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) Seoul, 30 Samcheong-ro, Jongno District, Seoul, South Korea - map
    ON NOW until Mon 03 Mar 2025


  • Yoko Ono: Ex It

    Ragione Palace, Piazza delle Erbe, 35100 Padova PD, Italy - map
    ON NOW until Mon 06 Jan 2025


  • Group Show: Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City (1969-2001)

    80WSE, 80 Washington Square E, New York, NY 10003, USA - map
    ON NOW until Fri 20 Dec 2024


  • Yoko Ono: FLY billboard

    New Berlin Art Society, Chausseestraße 128-129, 10115 Berlin, Germany - map
    ON NOW until Sun 23 Feb 2025


  • Yoko Ono: IMAGINE PEACE

    Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, S Shore Rd, Gateshead NE8 3BA, UK - map
    ON NOW until Mon 06 Jan 2025


  • Group Show: Cutting Clouds / Tagliando le nuvole

    Donnaregina Contemporary Art Museum - Madre Museum, Via Luigi Settembrini, 79, 80139 Napoli NA, Italy - map
    ON NOW until Tue 07 Jan 2025


  • Group Show: mode d’emploi

    Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, France - map
    ON NOW until Sun 01 Jun 2025


  • YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND

    Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Grabbepl. 5, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany - map
    ON NOW until Sun 16 Mar 2025


  • Group Show: The Atomic age: Artists put to the test of history / L'Âge atomique: Les artistes à l'épreuve de l'histoire

    Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, 11 Av. du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris, France - map
    ON NOW until Sun 09 Feb 2025


  • Group Show: Love is Louder

    BOZAR, Rue Ravenstein 23, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium - map
    ON NOW until Sun 05 Jan 2025


  • Group Show: UNDERGROUND, American Avant-Garde Film in the 1960s

    Eye Film Museum, IJpromenade 1, 1031 KT Amsterdam, Netherlands - map
    ON NOW until Sun 05 Jan 2025


  • Group Show: Look at Us! - Female Artists in Expressionism & Fluxus

    Museum Ostwall, U-Dortmund, Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse 2, 44137 Dortmund, Germany - map
    ON NOW until Sun 23 Mar 2025


  • Group Show: Laure Prouvost: Oma-je

    Fondation PHI pour l’art contemporain, 451 Rue Saint-Jean, Montréal, QC H2Y 2R5, Canada - map
    ON NOW until Sun 09 Mar 2025


Coming Soon

  • IMAGINE PEACE TOWER lit

    Imagine Peace Tower, Videy Island, Capital Region, Iceland - map
    Sat 21 Dec 2024 - Tue 31 Dec 2024


  • IMAGINE PEACE TOWER lit

    Imagine Peace Tower, Videy Island, Capital Region, Iceland - map
    Tue 18 Feb 2025


  • YOKO ONO's birthday

    1 W 72nd St, New York, NY 10023, USA - map
    Tue 18 Feb 2025


  • JOHN & YOKO wedding anniversary [Gibraltar, UK]

    British Consulate, The Convent, Main Street, Gibraltar - map
    Thu 20 Mar 2025


  • IMAGINE PEACE TOWER lit

    Imagine Peace Tower, Videy Island, Capital Region, Iceland - map
    Fri 21 Mar 2025 - Thu 27 Mar 2025


  • Yoko Ono: Earth Peace (2014) - Annual raising of Yoko Ono's Earth Peace (2014) flag by Creative Folkestone

    The Grand, The Leas, Folkestone CT20 2XL - map
    Sun 21 Sep 2025


  • Annual Lighting of the IMAGINE PEACE TOWER

    Imagine Peace Tower (Friðarsúlan), Viðey Island, Reykjavík, Iceland - map
    Thu 09 Oct 2025


  • IMAGINE PEACE TOWER lit

    Imagine Peace Tower, Videy Island, Capital Region, Iceland - map
    Thu 09 Oct 2025 - Mon 08 Dec 2025


  • JOHN LENNON's birthday

    Worldwide - map
    Thu 09 Oct 2025



Videos

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Albums

Yoko Ono – Warzone (2018)
ONO – Yes, I’m A Witch Too (2016)
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band – Between My Head And The Sky (2014)
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band – Take Me To The Land Of Hell (2013)
Yoko Ono, Kim Gordon & Thurston Moore – YOKOKIMTHURSTON (2012)
John Lennon – Power To The People – The Hits (1968-1984/2010)
ONO – Yes, I’m A Witch (2007)
Yoko Ono – Blueprint For A Sunrise (2001)
Yoko Ono/IMA – Rising Mixes (1996)
Yoko Ono/IMA – Rising (1995)
ONO – Open Your Box (1991)
Yoko Ono – Starpeace (1985) – re-release coming soon
John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Milk And Honey (1984)
Yoko Ono – It’s Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982) – re-release coming soon
Yoko Ono – Season Of Glass (1981) – re-release coming soon
John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Double Fantasy Stripped Down (1980/2010)
John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Double Fantasy (1980)
Yoko Ono – A Story (1974/1997) – re-release coming soon
Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Super Band – Let’s Have A Dream – 1974 One Step Festival Special Edition (1974/2022)
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band & Something Different – Feeling The Space (1973)
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band with Elephant’s Memory, Endless Strings and Choir Boys – Approximately Infinite Universe (1973)
John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band with Elephant’s Memory plus Invisible Strings – Sometime in New York City (1972)
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band – Fly (1971)
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band – Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band (1970)
The Plastic Ono Band – Live Peace In Toronto 1969 (1969)
John and Yoko – Wedding Album (1969)
John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Unfinished Music No.2: Life With The Lions (1969)
John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins (1968)

Singles, EPs, Tracks & Guest Appearances

The Moonlandingz & Yoko Ono – This Cities Undone (2017)
Black Lips & Yoko Ono – Occidental Front (2017)
ONO – Hell In Paradise 2016 Part 1 (2016) & Part 2 (2017)
Bleachers & Yoko Ono – I’m Ready To Move On/Wild Heart Reprise (2015)
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band & The Flaming Lips – Do It! (2011)
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band & The Flaming Lips – Atlas Eets Christmas (2011)
Basement Jaxx & Yoko Ono – Day Of The Sunflowers (We March On) (2009)
ONO – You’re The One (1991)
John & Yoko The Plastic Ono Band with The Harlem Community Choir – Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (1971)
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band – Why (Extended Version) (1970/2016)
Plastic Ono Band – Remember Love (1969)
Plastic Ono Band – Give Peace A Chance (1969)
Yoko Ono & Ivry Gitlis With The Dirty Mac (John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards & Mitch Mitchell) – Whole Lotta Yoko (1968/1995)
The Beatles – What’s The New Mary Jane? (1968)
The Beatles – Revolution 9 (1968)
The Beatles – The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill (1968)
The Beatles – Birthday (1968)

 

Singles & EPs on Vinyl at Chimera Music

Chimera Music Release No. 0 (2009)
The Flaming Lips with Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band – Do It! EP
Yoko Ono, Kim Gordon & Thurston Moore – Early In The Morning (2012)
tUnE-yArDs as YOKO – We’re All Water | Warrior Woman (remix)
Yoko Ono & Iggy Pop – Waiting For The D Train | I’m Going Away Smiling
Yoko Ono & RZA – Greenfield Morning | Seed of Joy | Life is a Struggle
Yoko Ono & Antony – Love You Earth | I’m Going Away Smiling (2015)
Yoko Ono & John Zorn – Blink (2015)
Yoko Ono & The Flaming Lips – Happy Xmas (War Is Over) | Atlas Eets Christmas (2015)
Available at Chimera Music

 

ONO Number Ones

Yoko’s 13 x Billboard ‘Hot Dance Club Play’ Chart Number Ones

01. Walking On Thin Ice (10 May 2003)
02. Everyman, Everywoman… (13 Nov 2004)
03. No, No, No (12 Jan 2008)
04. Give Peace a Chance (16 Aug 2008)
05. I’m Not Getting Enough (13 Jun 2009)
06. Give Me Something (17 Apr 2010)
07. Wouldnit (25 Sep 2010)
08. Move On Fast (12 Mar 2011)
09. Talking To The Universe (17 Sep 2011)
10. Hold Me (27 Apr 2013)
11. Walking On Thin Ice 2013 (12 Oct 2013)
12. Angel (8 Nov 2014)
13. Hell In Paradise 2016 (28 Jan 2017)
  
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