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Leiko Ikemura Born in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, JapanLives and works in Berlin, Germany
Leiko Ikemura's works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions worldwide since the early 1980s and will have a solo exhibition in our gallery in Zahnradstrasse, opening at the end of August, 2024. Most recently, the Heredium Museum, Daejeon, South Korea is showing until August 4th, 2024, the solo show Leiko Ikemura: Light on the Horizon. Further solo exhibitions were presented in the following institutions (selection): Museo de Arte Zapopan, Guadalajara (2023); Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin (2023); Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (2022); CAC La Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències Valencia (2022); Usagi in Wonderland at Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, Norwich (2021); Centro de Arte Caja Burgos (2021); Kunsthalle Rostock (2020); St. Matthäuskirche, Berlin (2020); Kunstmuseum Basel (2019); Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn (2019); The National Art Center, Tokyo (2019); Deutsches Keramikmuseum Hetjens, Dusseldorf (2017); Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (2016); Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne (2015); The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Mishima (2014); Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (2013); Asian Art Museum, Berli
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Leiko Ikemura
Biography
Born in 1951 in Tsu, Mie-Ken, Japan, Leiko Ikemura is a contemporary artist residing and working between Berlin and Cologne, Germany. She is occupied with painting, drawing, sculpture, and since 1981 photography.
In 1972 Leiko Ikemura decided to leave Japan and lived in several European cities in Spain, Switzerland, and Germany. She developed an internationally lauded artistic practice, marked by a mysterious aura residing in every single object she creates. Recurring genres are mystical landscapes and obscure portraits, in which the artist balances both abstraction and figuration in an expressive and characteristic manner.
Issues of gender, war, and religion are interrogated on paper, canvas, or with patinated bronze. She combines Far-Eastern influences — think of an animistic apprehension of the world — with visual language and an artistic approach shaped by European culture.
Her works always consist of a certain ambiguity or impalpability. The mysterious character of her works is the result of her ongoing interest in Japanese mythology, depicting different states of transformation. SimiLikedius’ Metamorphosis, there is this notion of an in-between state with her subjects, in which they float between nature, the animal, or the human f
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