EU Honour Day

Celebrate Europe at Expo 2025 Osaka as we commemorate the 75^th anniversary of the Schuman declaration, which is considered the beginning of the EU.

The programme features a selection of diverse significant European creators and creative industries, ranging from performing to visual arts, from architecture and design to fashion. All initiatives aim at generating dialogue and exchanges in co-creations inspired by common human values and addressing global challenges.

• Pianographique, an Ars Electronica collaboration featuring visual artist Cori O’Lan and pianist Maki Namekawa. Music is used as a trigger to generate dynamic real-time images, immersing the audience in a visual landscape of sound. The program will premiere new music composed by Joe Hisaishi. The event will be at the intersection of Japanese and European cultures and traditions with advanced technology to provide the audience with an experience of the music of the future.
• Breath is a contemporary multimedia dance performance by Gloria Benedikt. Delving into the human condition through the lens of breath, it shows how the ecological, biological, and social systems we have created increasingly constrain a fundamental human necessity that connects all humans: the ability to breathe.
• A back-to-back DJ set featuring Krikor Kouchian and MAYUDEPTH (electro, techno). Their set will be complemented by original works by Jackson Kaki and Shinsuke Yamaji to create an immersive contemporary performance at the intersection of music and visual arts.
• The European Union Youth Orchestra is a youth orchestra with members drawn from the 27 members states of the European Union. Since its foundation in 1976, it has connected music colleges and the professional music world for generations of European musicians. The brass quintet will march with the EU parade and visiting pavilions.
• “Once Upon a Time in Europe” the EU original Fairy Tales book goes to the Expo, in co-creation with Member States. A selection of iconic tales from 27 countries translated into Japanese and illustrated by a Japanese artist will be presented.