Leiko IKEMURA
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- 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 MANDERSRising Light / Frozen Moment
14 December, 2024 - 30 March, 2025 -
Leiko Ikemura. Floating Spheres
23 November 2024 - 11 May 2025

Pre-30th Anniversary Exhibit:Leiko IKEMURA Mark MANDERSRising Light / Frozen Momentat MOT (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo)
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infinitely transparent
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Solo Show: TOWARD NEW SEAS KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL

Solo Exhibition: Our Planet – Earth & Stars The National Art Center, Tokyo
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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)

participate: Redon and His World Beyond Imagination POLA MUSEUM OF ART
Leiko IKEMURA, Genesis l, 2015 - 2017, tempera paint on jute, 190x290cm
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After another world
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
After another world Press release
Installation views
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