Leiko Ikemura
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is a Japanese-Swiss painter
and sculptor.
and Seville
. In 1979, Ikemura moved to Zurich
to live and worked there for 4 years. The first of her mature paintings developed around 1980. The first solo exhibition in a public institution took place in 1983 at the "Bonn Kunstverein", in Bonn, Germany. That same year, she spent as an artist in residency in Nuremberg
, (“Stadtzeichnerin” upon invitation of the city of Nuremberg). During the next several years, Ikemura had numerous solo exhibitions in galleries and public institutions, such as: the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel (1987), Melbourne International Biennial 1999
, in the Japan Pavilion. In 1985, she moved to Cologne
. Her interest in working with sculpture began in 1987. In the 1990s, the female figure crystallized as the main focus of her work. In 1991, Ikemura became a Professor for Painting at the "Universität der Künste" (University of fine Arts) in Berlin.
Leiko Ikemura lives and works in Berlin
and Cologne
.
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
and sculptor.
Biography
Leiko Ikemura left her country to study in Spain from 1973 to 1978 at the Academia de Bellas Artes in GranadaGranada
Granada is a city and the capital of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of three rivers, the Beiro, the Darro and the Genil. It sits at an elevation of 738 metres above sea...
and Seville
Seville
Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...
. In 1979, Ikemura moved to Zurich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
to live and worked there for 4 years. The first of her mature paintings developed around 1980. The first solo exhibition in a public institution took place in 1983 at the "Bonn Kunstverein", in Bonn, Germany. That same year, she spent as an artist in residency in Nuremberg
Nuremberg
Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...
, (“Stadtzeichnerin” upon invitation of the city of Nuremberg). During the next several years, Ikemura had numerous solo exhibitions in galleries and public institutions, such as: the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel (1987), Melbourne International Biennial 1999
Melbourne International Biennial 1999
Melbourne International Biennial 1999"Signs of Life" 14 May - 27 June 1999The Melbourne International Biennial was a cultural initiative of the City of Melbourne in partnership with Arts Victoria, Department of Premier and Cabinet and the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of...
, in the Japan Pavilion. In 1985, she moved to Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
. Her interest in working with sculpture began in 1987. In the 1990s, the female figure crystallized as the main focus of her work. In 1991, Ikemura became a Professor for Painting at the "Universität der Künste" (University of fine Arts) in Berlin.
Leiko Ikemura lives and works in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
and Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
.
Awards
- 2008: August MackeAugust MackeAugust Macke was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter . He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art which saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which...
Prize of the city of Meschede and the Hochsauerlandkreis Meschede, Germany - 2007: Iserlohn Art Prize, by the Citizens Foundation of the Savings Bank of Iserlohn, Germany
- 2002: The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Artist Residency, New Haven, ConnecticutConnecticutConnecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...
, USA - 2001: "Deutscher Kritikerpreis" Critics Award for Visual Arts, German Association of Critics, Berlin, Germany
- 1988: Prize of the Jury, International Triennale for Original Graphics, Grenchen, Switzerland
- 1983 - 84: "Nuremberg Stadtzeichnerin", Artist residency grant by Faber-Castell & the City of Nuremberg
- 1982: Art prize of Kaiserswerth, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 1981: Prize of the Fountation for Graphic Art in Switzerland, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
- 1981: Grant of the City of Zuerich, Switzerland
- 1981: Grant of the Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation. Federal Bureau for Culture of Switzerland
Shows (Selection)
- 2011: "イケムラレイコ展; Leiko Ikemura" The National Museum of Modern Art, TokyoNational Museum of Modern Art, TokyoThe in Tokyo, Japan, is the foremost museum collecting and exhibiting contemporary Japanese art.This Tokyo museum is also known by the English acronym MOMAT...
, MOMAT, jap - 2008: "Emotional Drawings (tentative title)" The National Museum of Modern Art, KyotoNational Museum of Modern Art, KyotoThe is an art museum in Kyoto, Japan.This Kyoto museum is also known by the English acronym MoMAK .-MoMAK history:...
, MOMAK, jap - 2008: "Leiko Ikemura; Tag, Nacht und Halbmond" Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, ch
- 2008: "A Perspective on Contemporary Art 6: Emotional Drawing", National Museum of Modern Art, TokyoNational Museum of Modern Art, TokyoThe in Tokyo, Japan, is the foremost museum collecting and exhibiting contemporary Japanese art.This Tokyo museum is also known by the English acronym MOMAT...
, MOMAT, jap - 2007: "The Spaces Between" Leiko Ikemura und Guenther Foerg, Langen Foundation, Neuss, de
- 2007: "Fiction for the Real" National Museum of Modern Art, TokyoNational Museum of Modern Art, TokyoThe in Tokyo, Japan, is the foremost museum collecting and exhibiting contemporary Japanese art.This Tokyo museum is also known by the English acronym MOMAT...
, jap - 2006: "Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin" Neue NationalgalerieNeue NationalgalerieNeue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum is a museum for modern art in Berlin, with its main focus on the early 20th century. It is part of the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin...
, Berlin, de - 2006: "u mi no ko" The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Mishima, jap (solo)
- 2006: "The Child" Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi, jap
- 2005: "The World is A Stage. Stories Behind Pictures" Mori Art Museum, (Roppongi Hills Mori Tower), Tokyo, jap
- 2005: "Life actually" MOT Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, jap
- 2004: "Sculpture Painting Drawing" Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, de, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, de (solo)
- 2003: "Himmel Falden" Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, dk
- 2002: "Ozean — ein Projekt", Kunstmuseum LiechtensteinKunstmuseum LiechtensteinThe Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein is the state museum of modern and contemporary art in Vaduz. The building by the Swiss architects Meinrad Morger, Heinrich Degelo and Christian Kerez was completed in November 2000...
, Vaduz, Liechtenstein (solo) - 2001: "Les années lumière" Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, ch (solo)
- 2001: "Terra! Terra!" Centro Sperimentale d´Arte Contemporanea, Caraglio, it
- 2000: "Beyond the horizon" Toyota Munincipal Museum of Art, Toyota, jap (solo)
- 2000: "Visage" The National Museum of Modern Art, KyotoNational Museum of Modern Art, KyotoThe is an art museum in Kyoto, Japan.This Kyoto museum is also known by the English acronym MoMAK .-MoMAK history:...
, The National Museum of Western ArtThe National Museum of Western ArtThe is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition.The Museum is located in the museum and zoo complex in Ueno Park in Taito, central Tokyo. This popular Tokyo museum is also known by the English acronym NMWA .-NMWA history:The NMWA was established on...
, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, TokyoNational Museum of Modern Art, TokyoThe in Tokyo, Japan, is the foremost museum collecting and exhibiting contemporary Japanese art.This Tokyo museum is also known by the English acronym MOMAT...
, jap - 1999: "Sign of life" Melbourne International Biennal, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
Pavillon, Melbourne, au (solo) - 1999: "La razon para la impresion" Mueso de Arte Moderno de Medellin, co
- 1999: "Koeln Skulptur 2" Skulpturen Park KölnSkulpturen Park KölnSkulpturen Park Köln is a major international overview of contemporary sculpture taking place from 19972009 in Cologne, Germany- History :-Subjects:...
, Cologne, de - 1999: "Migration" The Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, usa (solo)
- 1997: "Leiko Ikemura" Ausstellungsgesellschaft für zeitgenoessische Kunst Zollverein, Essen, de (solo)
- 1995: "art en plein air" Motiers '95, Motiers, ch
- 1992: "Ankunft" Kunstwerke, Berlin, de
- 1991: "Double Take" Soho Art House, New York, usa
- 1990: "A Perspective of Contemporary Art: Color and/or Monochrome" The National Museum of Modern Art, KyotoNational Museum of Modern Art, KyotoThe is an art museum in Kyoto, Japan.This Kyoto museum is also known by the English acronym MoMAK .-MoMAK history:...
, jap - 1989: "Drawing as Itself" The National Museum of Art, OsakaNational Museum of Art, OsakaThe is a subterranean Japanese art museum located on the island of Nakanoshima, located between the Dōjima River and the Tosabori River, about 5 minutes west of Higobashi Station in central Osaka....
, jap - 1988: "Leiko Ikemura" Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, ch (solo)
- 1988: "Made in Cologne" DuMont Kunsthalle, Köln, de
- 1987: “Stiller Nachmittag“ Kunsthaus Zuerich, Zurich, ch
- 1987: "Leiko Ikemura, Gemaelde, Zeichnungen 1980-1987" Museum of Contemporary Art (Basel)Museum of Contemporary Art (Basel)The Museum of Contemporary Art in Basel opened in 1980 as the first public museum in Europe exclusively dedicated to the production and practice of contemporary art from the 1960s to the present. It is a heritage site of national significance....
, ch (solo) - 1985: “Vom Zeichnen“ Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Kasseler Kunstverein, Museum moderner Kunst MUMOKMUMOKMUMOK is the abbreviation of "MUseum MOderner Kunst" Foundation Ludwig Vienna. It is located in the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria....
, Wien, at - 1983: "Leiko Ikemura" Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, de (solo)
Books
- "u mi no ko" (jap) poems and drawings by Leiko Ikemura, The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Akaaka (Japan), ISBN 4-903545-04-0
- "andalusia" authors: John YauJohn YauJohn Yau is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978...
, Leiko Ikemura, Weidle Verlag, ISBN 3-931135-96-9 - "Leiko Ikemura: Sculpture, painting, drawing" authors: Hans-Jürgen Schwalm, Wilfried Dickhoff, Britta E. Buhlmann, Elisabeth Bronfen, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen ISBN 3-929040-81-6
- "beyond the horizon" de, en, jap, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art; T. Kitagawa, editors: Fölbach, Dietmar ISBN 3-934795-50-1
- "Leiko Ikemura" authors: Udo Kittelmann, Friedemann Malsch, Noemi Smolik, editor: Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, Cologne, Milano
- "Leiko Ikemura" authors: Gerard A. Goodrow, Kimio Jinno, Friedeman Malsch, Alexander Pühringer, Cantz, ISBN 3-89322-803-9
- "Alpenindianer" authors: Leiko Ikemura, Akira Tatehata, editor: Satani Gallery, Tokyo
- "Hundertundelf Haiku" authors: Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho, born , then , was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Bashō was recognized for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form; today, after centuries of commentary, he is recognized as a master of brief and clear haiku...
, 22 drawings from Leiko Ikemura, editor: Amman Verlag, Zurich - "Leiko Ikemura: Gemälde, Zeichnungen 1980-1987", authors: Dieter Koepplin, Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Basel) ISBN 3-7204-0053-0
- "Der stumme Schrei" authors: Kenzaburo OeKenzaburo Oeis a Japanese author and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His works, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues including nuclear weapons, social non-conformism and existentialism.Ōe was awarded...
, Leiko Ikemura, editor (Nobel Price Edition): Coron Verlag (CH) - "Shadows" authors: Leiko Ikemura, editor: Johan Jonker, Amsterdam et Gabriele Rivet, Cologne
- "Leiko Ikemura" authors: Curt Heigl, Anton Wolfgang Graf von Faber-Castell, Kunsthalle Nürnberg
- "Ancestors" authors: Leiko Ikemura, edition, Kunstverein St. Gallen, (CH)
- "Wild cats and domestic cats" authors: Leiko Ikemura, 61 drawings, Edition Stähli, Zurich
External links
- Official website of Leiko Ikemura
- Leiko Ikemura in the "open library"
- kunstaspekte
- artfacts.net
- Artnet.de
- Kolumba Museum, Cologne, Germany
- Gallery Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
- Gallery Karsten Greve, Paris, France
- Gallery Karsten Greve, St. Moritz, Switzerland
- Gallery HAM, Nagoya, Japan
- Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
- Shugoarts Gallery, Tokyo, Japan