ATELIER MUJI Exhibition 'Book Activist' Irma Boom: Book Activist Exhibition

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Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd. (Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo / President and Representative Director Satoru Shimizu), which operates MUJI, will hold the exhibition "'Book Activist' Irma Boom: Book Activist" at ATELIER MUJI GINZA Gallery 1 & 2 inside "MUJI Ginza" (Chuo-ku, Tokyo) from Friday, June 5 to Sunday, August 23, 2026.

Since its launch in 2015, MUJI BOOKS has proposed a lifestyle with books under the concept "Always with good words." We believe that a "physical book" is not only for conveying information through text and pictures, but it also exists in space as an object. Unlike fragments of information that disappear in an instant on digital screens, books are three-dimensional, complex, and exist alongside people as time passes.

This time, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of MUJI BOOKS, we have prepared a book titled "Book Activist" together with Dutch graphic designer Irma Boom. "Book Activist" is a term that praises everyone involved with books: readers, sellers, deliverers, binders, printers, writers, and more. This book deciphers the "physical book" from various perspectives through her work of creating over 500 books in about 40 years. It has been finished as a book small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, yet thick like a dictionary.

Irma Boom has created books of different forms each time with various partners around the world. Her style of extracting only what is necessary from a vast amount of information and constructing it in the form of a "physical book" overlaps with MUJI's philosophy of manufacturing, which involves selecting materials, reviewing processes, and shaping products that fulfill necessary functions. Through this exhibition, we will once again reexamine the value and possibilities of "physical books" and attempt to make it a place that triggers a lifestyle that continues to be with "good words."

At the venue, we will exhibit for the first time in Asia the unique "physical books" created by Irma Boom, valuable books housed in MoMA and the Centre Pompidou, models of small handmade books that are rarely seen, and "IBO Paper," a paper jointly developed with a paper manufacturing company. We will also introduce a number of "good words" extracted from books.

mini models ©Mathieu Lommen past Exhibition Photos by Petr Cox and Gert Jan van Rooij, All photos courtesy Irma Boom past Exhibition Photos by Petr Cox and Gert Jan van Rooij, All photos courtesy Irma Boom

Photo by Anton Corbijn

Irma Boom

Graphic Designer. Based in Amsterdam, she primarily works on book design. Established the Irma Boom Office in 1991. The commission works she has undertaken so far exceed 500 books, including those for the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, businessman Paul Fentener van Vlissingen (1990-2006), Inside Outside, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Prince Claus Fund, Fondazione Prada, Maserati, Vitra, NAi Publishers, the United Nations, Tate Modern, and Chanel. Since 1992, she has served as a Senior Critic at Yale University in the US and holds lectures and workshops around the world. She is the youngest ever recipient of the prestigious Gutenberg Prize. She also received the Johannes Vermeer Award (Dutch state prize for the arts) in 2014.

WEB｜https://www.irmaboom.nl/

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'Book Activist' Irma Boom: Book Activist Exhibition

Dates | Friday, June 5, 2026 - Sunday, August 23, 2026

Business Hours | 11:00-21:00 Venue | MUJI Ginza 6F ATELIER MUJI GINZA Gallery 1 & 2, Free Admission

*Closed days are in accordance with the store. There may be dates and times when some exhibits cannot be seen due to changes in schedule or events.

ATELIER MUJI GINZA

MUJI Ginza 6F, 3-3-5 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061

Access | 3 minutes walk from Exit B4 of "Ginza" Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza, Marunouchi, and Hibiya Lines

3 minutes walk from Exit 5 of "Ginza-itchome" Station on the Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line

5 minutes walk from Central Exit of "Yurakucho" Station on the JR Yamanote Line

Organizer | Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd.