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Leiko IKEMURA Works and Info

infinitely transparent installation view
2022, ShugoArts
infinitely transparent installation view
2022, ShugoArts
infinitely transparent installation view
2022, ShugoArts
infinitely transparent installation view
2022, ShugoArts
Our Planet – Earth & Stars installation view
2019, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Our Planet – Earth & Stars installation view "Cosmicscape"
2019, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Our Planet – Earth & Stars installation view
2019, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Our Planet – Earth & Stars installation view
2019, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Our Planet – Earth & Stars installation view
2019, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Our Planet – Earth & Stars installation view
2019, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Our Planet – Earth & Stars installation view
2019, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Our Planet – Earth & Stars installation view
2019, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Our Planet – Earth & Stars installation view
2019, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Our Planet – Earth & Stars installation view
2019, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Our Planet – Earth & Stars installation view
2019, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Our Planet – Earth & Stars installation view
2019, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Sleeping under Trees
2017, glazed terracotta, 27x31.5x22cm [12888]
Haruko l
2017, tempera paint on jute, 120x120cm [12880]
Catch the Red
2016, tempera, oil on Jute, 60x110cm [14013]
Genesis l
2015-2017, tempera paint on jute, 190x290cm [12879]
Mement Mori I
2012, ceramic, 30x130x40.5cm [10179]
メメント・モリ II
2012, ceramic, 25x131x28cm [10180]
Mizuumi I
2012, tempera and oil on jute, 90x110cm [10165]
Mizuumi II
2012, tempera and oil on jute, 90x110cm [10166]
Mizuumi III
2012, tempera and oil on jute, 90x110cm [10167]
M-scape
2009, oil on jute, 170x90cm [08623]
Red trees
2009, oil on jute, 160x120cm
White Horizon
2008, tempera on canvas, 60x70m [09464]
Lion Red
2008, oil on jute, 80x150cm [09348]
pacific red
2006, oil on jute, 160x200cm
Badende in Dunkelblau
2002-2003, oil on jute, 100x140,5 cm [05214]
Standing in Blue
1999, oil on jute, 70.6x70.4cm [04035]
Lying on Black
1998/1999, oil on canvas, 80x150cm [04033]
Flying on Black
1998/1999, oil on canvas, 120x120cm [04031]
Nachtbilt (Stehende)
1997, oil on canvas, 70x70cm [11732]
Stehende I, II
1991, ceramic, 119x26.5x20cm 114.5x30x18cm [03926]
Janus
1989, acrylic on canvas, 115.7x94.5cm [04993]
overview
Leiko Ikemura was born in Tsu City, Mie, Japan. She moved to Spain in the 1970s, then to Switzerland, and has been based in Germany since the early 1980s. Ikemura was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1991 to 2015. She has served as a visiting professor at the graduate school of Joshibi University of Art and Design since 2014. In 2019, she won the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize. Ikemura works in a variety of media including painting, terra cotta, bronze, glass, photography, and poetry. She utilizes traditional materials for her paintings and sculptures, which contain a high level of spirituality and are highly acclaimed both domestically and internationally. The shapes and colors emitted from the unique texture of her art create images that blend figures, plants, and horizons, encompassing the fluid relationship between people, nature, and the universe.

Selected solo exhibitions
infinitely transparent, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2022; Nach Neuen Meeren, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 2019; Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden, 2019; Our Planet – Earth and Stars, National Art Center, Tokyo, 2019; After another world, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2017; ...und plötzlich dreht der Wind, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, 2016; Poetics of Form, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (Nevada), 2016; All About Girls and Tigers, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Cologne, 2015; Pioon, The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, 2014; i-migration, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2013; Korekara oder die Heiterkeit des fragilen Seins, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, 2012; Mare e Monti. Kolumba, Cologne, 2012; Transfiguration, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie, 2011.

Selected Public Collections
Bundeskunstsammlung (Berlin, Germany), The Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), Kunstmuseum Basel (Basel, Switzerland), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (Vaduz, Liechtenstein), Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln (Cologne, Germany), mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Vienna, Austria), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan), The National Museum of Art, Osaka (Osaka, Japan), MOMAT - The National Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo, Japan), Pola Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan), Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe, Germany)

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Pre-30th Anniversary Exhibit:
Leiko IKEMURA Mark MANDERS
Rising Light / Frozen Moment

14 December, 2024 - 30 March, 2025

Leiko Ikemura. Floating Spheres

23 November 2024 - 11 May 2025
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Pre-30th Anniversary Exhibit:
Leiko IKEMURA Mark MANDERS
Rising Light / Frozen Moment
at MOT (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo)

2024.12.14 Sat - 2025.3.30 Sun
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“infinitely transparent” Installation movie, 2022, ShugoArts

2022.4.14 Thu - 5.28 Sat
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infinitely transparent

2022.4.14 Thu - 5.28 Sat
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Solo Show: TOWARD NEW SEAS
KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL

2019.5.11 Sat - 9.1 Sun
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Solo Exhibition: Our Planet – Earth & Stars 
The National Art Center, Tokyo

2019.1.18 Fri - 4.1 Mon

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The National Art Center, Tokyo (Kokuritsu-Shin-Bijutsukan), Special Exhibition Gallery 1E
January 18 (Fri.) – April 1 (Mon.), 2019  *Closed on Tuesdays
10:00-18:00
*10:00-20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays
(Last admission 30 minutes before closing)

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participate: Redon and His World Beyond Imagination POLA MUSEUM OF ART

2018.7.22 Sun - 12.2 Sun

Leiko IKEMURA, Genesis l, 2015 - 2017, tempera paint on jute, 190x290cm
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Gallery Talk

2017.9.9 Sat
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After another world

2017.9.9 Sat - 10.7 Sat

Leiko Ikemura, Genesis I, 2015 - 2017, tempera on jute, 190 x 290 cm
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Opening hours: Tue-Sat 11am-7pm, closed on Sun, Mon and Public Holidays
Opening Party: September 9 Sat, from 5pm

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Interview

2017.6.24 Sat
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Masato KOBAYASHI, Leiko IKEMURA

participate: All Living Things Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum

2016.7.24 Sun - 11.29 Tue
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