Leiko Ikemura
1951
Geboren in Tsu, Präfektur Mie | Born in Tsu, Mie Prefecture
Lebt und arbeitet in Berlin und Köln | Lives and works in Berlin and Cologne
2014 – bis heute | until today
Professorship at Joshibi University of Art and Design, Kanagawa
1990 – 2016
Professur an der Universität der Künste, Berlin | Professorship at Universität der Künste, Berlin
1973 – 1978
Studiert an Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría, Sevilla | Studied at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría, Sevilla
1970 – 1972
Studiert an der Universität Osaka | Studied at the State University Osaka
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl) | Solo exhibitions (Selection)
2024
Light on the Horizon, Heredium Museum, South Korea
MOMSTARS, Contemporary Fine Arts Galerie GmbH, Berlin
2023
When Animals Become Art, The Feuerle Collection, Berlin
Leiko Ikemura. Motion of Love, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle
año del usagi, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico City
Witty Witches, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin
2022 –2023
Leiko Ikemura: Anima Alma – Works 1981 – 2022, Fergus McCaffrey, New York
Flashbacks – 16: Leiko Ikemura, BUILDING, Milan
2022
Leiko Ikemura: Mehr Licht!, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Humboldt Forum, Berlin
Leiko Ikemura: Infinitely Transparent, ShugoArts, Tokyo
Leiko Ikemura: New Girls ou Les Filles Difficiles, Peter Kilchmann, Paris
Leiko Ikemura: Riding the Waves, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp
2021 – 2022
Leiko Ikemura. Aquí Estamos – Here We Are, La Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Valencia
2021
Leiko Ikemura: Usagi in Wonderland, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
2020
ZIG ZAG, Galeria Filomena Soares, Rooftop, Lisbon
Leiko Ikemura – von Ost nach Ost, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock
2019
Leiko Ikemura, Wundersame Welten, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
Leiko Ikemura, The Case of Hiroshima, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
Leiko Ikemura, Der Schrei, Zionskirche, Berlin
Leiko Ikemura, Metamorphoses, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn
Leiko Ikemura, Nach neuen Meeren, Kunstmuseum Basel
2018
Leiko Ikemura. Islands awake, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
Leiko Ikemura. More Than Ever, Galerie Kewenig, Berlin
2017
Leiko Ikemura, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Leiko Ikemura, Women of Fire Dancing with Tree, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
No No Noh. Leiko Ikemura in dialogue with selected works of the Diethard Leopold Collection
International Fine Art, Vienna
Leiko Ikemura, Märchenwald, Hetjens-Museum, Dusseldorf
Leiko Ikemura, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2016
Leiko Ikemura. ...und plötzlich dreht der Wind, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
Leiko Ikemura. Mountains in Exile, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
Leiko Ikemura und Paula Modersohn-Becker, Galerie Haas, Berlin
Leiko Ikemura. Mindscape, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya
Leiko Ikemura. Poetics of Form. Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
Leiko Ikemura. Das unbekannte Archiv, DRK Klinken Westend Berlin
2015
Leiko Ikemura, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinrücke, Mumbai
Prelude: Leiko Ikemura – ein Dialog mit Utagawa Hiroshige, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
Leiko Ikemura. All About Girls and Tigers, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne
2014
Leiko Ikemura. Last und Lust, Neues Museum Nuremberg
Leiko Ikemura. Pioon, The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka
Leiko Ikemura, Hilfiker Kunstprojekte, Luzern
Leiko Ikemura. Zarathustra, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal
Leiko Ikemura. Zwischenwelten, Altana Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg
Leiko Ikemura & Odilon Redon, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
Sonderschau Leiko Ikemura, Preisträger Cologne Fine Art, Cologne
2013
Leiko Ikemura: i-migration, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Leiko Ikemura. oro y plata, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
Leiko Ikemura. Los Espantos, Galería Kewenig, Palma de Mallorca
Leiko Ikemura. Sueño de los árboles rojos, Poligrafa Obra Grafica, Barcelona
Leiko Ikemura, Hilfiker Kunstprojekte, Luzern
2012
Leiko Ikemura. Korekara oder die Heiterkeit des fragilen Seins, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Leiko Ikemura. Mare e Monti, Kolumba Museum, Cologne
Leiko Ikemura: Beyond the Lake. Landschaften aus den Jahren 2008 bis 2012, Galerie Haas AG, Zurich
Leiko Ikemura. Silver Flame, ShugoArts, Tokyo
2011
Leiko Ikemura. Wußtest du, ich habe zwei versteckte Flügel, Museum Burg Wissem, Troisdorf
Leiko Ikemura: Transfiguration, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie
Leiko Ikemura, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
Leiko Ikemura. Flame and Fire, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne
2010
Leiko Ikemura. Lichtbilder, Gundel Gelbert Showroom, Cologne
Leiko Ikemura. August Macke Prize Laureate, Sauerland-Museum, Arnsberg
Leiko Ikemura / Philipp von Matt – Asuka, Loock Galerie, Berlin
2009
Leiko Ikemura, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague
Leiko Ikemura. Me Za Me, ShugoArts, Tokyo
Leiko Ikemura. Face Scape, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
2008
Leiko Ikemura, Galerie Karsten Greve, St. Moritz
Leiko Ikemura. Tag, Nacht, Halbmond, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen
La Notte, Galerie Tony Wuethrich, Basel
Leiko Ikemura, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin
2007
Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
2006
Leiko Ikemura, The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta
Leiko Ikemura – Andalusienbilder, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
u mi no ko, The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka
Leiko Ikemura. Pacific, ShugoArts, Tokyo
Leiko Ikemura. Iserlohner Kunstpreis, Kunstverein Villa Wessel, Iserlohn
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl) | Group exhibitions (Selection)
2024
Isa Mona Lisa, Hamburguer Kunsthalle, Hamburg (upcoming)
My World, Singer Laren, Netherlands
Through Other Eyes (with Karin Kneffel), Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See
2023 – 2024
Conversations, Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp
2023
The Image of Memory: Leiko Ikemura and Shen Yuan. Being Art Museum, Shanghai
Masterpieces from the collection of Menard Art Museum. Menard Art Museum, Komaki, Aichi, Japan
Wundersame Welten. Von René Magritte bis Daniel Richter. Museum im Kleihues-Bau, Kornwestheim
Solar Breath. Wissen woher der Wind weht. ERES-Stiftung, Munich
Wort Schrift Zeichen – Das Alphabet der Kunst. KOLUMBA, Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums, Cologne
Extraordinary Form. Abstract and non-figurative works from the Miettinen Collection 1970 – Present. Miettinen Collection, Berlin
The Other Side of the Mirror is Home. Galerie Kilchmann, Zürich
The Inner Light – Or the expression of color. Galerie Du Monde, Hong Kong
Woman in Art – selected from the Olbricht Collection. Ketterer Kunst, Berlin
Der König ist tot, lang lebe die Königin, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
Femmes · Frauen · Women, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
MONOMATERIAL, Kunstsaele Berlin, Berlin
2022 – 2023
Horizons, Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne
Onehundred Works, Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel
Special Show: Leading and Emerging Women Artists, Galerie Karsten Greve, St. Moritz
2022
A Woman Is A Woman Is A Woman..., Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
The Day I Saw You: Retratos de la Colección Fundación AMMA (2022), Fundación AMMA, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Museum Ludwig, Cologne – History of a Collection with Civic Commitments, The National Art Center, Tokyo and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Recent Acquisitions in the Museum Collection, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn
2021
Portraits, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
25th Anniversary Collection Exhibition VISION. Who is Making the work? – existence / non-existence of “I”, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
2020
Sehnsucht 02. Fotografien aus der Sammlung Michael Horbach, Kunsträume der Michael Horbach Stiftung, Cologne
Four Years, gifts and acquisitions, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
Heaven and Hell, Oita Prefectural Art Museum, Oita
#StayMuseum. Special Exhibition from the Mie Prefecture Art Museum Collection, Mie Prefecture Art Museum, Tsu-shi
Artists on Color and Form: Selection of Artists in the Collection vol.2 Toeko Tatsuno & Leiko Ikemura, Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima Prefecture
Systemically important?, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
So wie wir sind 2.0, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
2019
Atlas. Cartographie du don, MCBA – Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
Masterpieces from the Collection of Menard Art Museum, Komaki
Frieze Sculpture, English Gardens, Regent’s Park, London
2018
Leiko Ikemura. Corsin Fontana, Galerie Tony Wuethrich, Basel
Leiko Ikemura in Dialogue with Donata and Wim Wenders, Stiftung Brandenburg Tor / Max-Liebermann-Haus, Berlin
The Collection of the Takamatsu Art Museum + In Spilling Light with Chuta Kimura, Takamatsu Art Museum, Shikoku, Japan, Exhibition for the Prix de Dessin, Fondation Daniel & Florence Guerlain Paris
Art on Paper, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
2017
A Trip through the Tokyo Station Gallery Collection. From Railway Art to Picasso, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo
OneHundredAndONe. Works, Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel
jung und wild. Die 1980er Jahre in München, Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich
BERLIINI >>> NASTOLA, Taarasti Art Centre, Nastola
Ikemura & Nolde, Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop
Weather Report. About Weather Culture and Climate Science, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
Schlaf. Eine produktive Zeitverschwendung, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen
„Wir Magier“ – Leiko Ikemura und Meisterschüler, Galerie Evelyn Drewes, Hamburg
2016
Painter of Poetry, Poet of the Picture. Himeji City Museum of Art Hyogo; Ahsikaga Museum of Art Tochigi; Hakodate Museum of Art Hokkaido, Japan
Ceramix – Art et Céramique de Rodin à Schütte. La Maison Rouge Paris
Sein. Antlitz. Körper – Kirchen öffnen sich der Kunst. Berlin Cathedral
Donations – Florence & Daniel Guerlain, Collection Centre Pompidou at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg
Sharing as Caring no.5 / Beyond Documentation, Kunstverein Heidelberg
All living things. Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, JapanReady for the Stage / Act 1 (1900 –2016), Arp Museum, Remagen
Тhe 56th October Salon „The Pleasure of Love“, Belgrade
Kumo no ito, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
2015
Ce qui je suis maintenant. Ein Zimmer für Alfred Flechtheim, Osthaus Museum, Hagen
Koelnskulptur #8 – Skulpture Parc Cologne, Cologne
Rohkunstbau XXI. Apokalypse, Berlin
The Red Thread – On Structures in Narration, Kolumba Museum, Cologne
Ceramix. Ceramic art from Gauguin to Schütte, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
Einfühlung und Abstraktion. Die Moderne der Frauen in Deutschland, Kunsthalle Bielefeld
2014
LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX 2. NGBK Berlin
Distant Observations. Fukushima in Berlin, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin
Höhenrausch. Arp Museum – Bahnhof Rolandseck, Bonn
Esprit d’une collection: GUERLAIN, Musée des Beaux-Arts Libourne
Japan ART Switzerland, Kunsthaus Interlaken
Wild Heart. Art Exhibition of German Neo-Expressionism since the 1960s, China Art Museum Shanghai
St. Moritz Art Masters, St. Moritz
Klee und der ferne Osten, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne
2013
Von Japonismus zu Zen. Paul Klee und der Ferne Osten, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Back to Earth. Die Wiederentdeckung der Keramik in der Kunst, Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster
Schöne Landschaft – Bedrohte Natur. Alte Meister im Dialog mit zeitgenössischer Kunst.All Kind of Ceramics – 20 Years of the Artist in Residence Program. The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park
Macht. Wahn. Vision. Der Turm und urbane Giganten, Städtische Museen Heilbronn
Painting Forever! Keilrahmen. Kunst-Werke Berlin – KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2012
DOKI DOKI. The Fascination of Ceramics, the Excitement of Art, Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki
Beyond Memory. Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
Art as Magic: Visionary Artists and Their Inner Supernatural World, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya
2011
Fukushima and the consequences, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Mit Feuer und Flamme. Keramik in der Gegenwartskunst, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden – Rot
2010
Schweizer Kunst im Aufbruch. Die Neuen Wilden, Kunst(zeug)haus, Rapperswil-Jona
Plastic Artists and their Grafic Work, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Expanding Art. Introduction to the Contemporary Art, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie
Geheimnisvolle Zwischenwelten, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern
2009
Emotional Drawing, SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul
2008
A Perspective on Contemporary Art 6. Emotional Drawing, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Emotional Drawings, National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, Kyoto
2007
Fiction for the Real, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Zwischenräume / The Spaces Between. Leiko Ikemura & Günther Förg, Langen Foundation, Neuss
2006
The Child, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
Berlin–Tokyo Tokyo–Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Preise und Stipendien | Awards and Scolarships
2020
70th'Art Encouragement Prize of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Japan' for 2019
2014
Cologne Fine Art Prize
Sparda Art Prize NRW, Hasen-Tempel, Recklinghausen
2013
JaDe-Prize of the JaDe-Foundation (Japanese-German-Foundation), Cologne
2009
August Macke Prize, August Macke Curatorial & HSK Meschede
2008
Artists Residency, "Casa Aguacate", Puerto Vallarta
Artists Residency by the Duncan & LeBaron Families of Lincoln
2007
Art Prize ofIserlohn, Community Foundation of the Sparkasse Iserlohn
2002
Artist Residency, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, New Haven
2001
Critics Award for Visual Arts, German Association of Critics, Berlin
1996 – 1998
EKWC (European Ceramic Workcentre), Hertogenbosch
1988
Prize of the Jury, International Triennial for Original Graphics, Grenchen
1983 – 1984
"Nürnberger Stadtzeichnerin", Artist Residency Grant by Faber-Castell & Nuremberg
1982
Art Prize of Kaiserswerth, Dusseldorf
Prize of the Foundation for Graphic Art in Switzerland, ETH Zurich
Second Prize of the International Drawings Triennal of the Youth, Nuremberg
1981
Grant of the City of Zurich, Switzerland
Art Prize of the Kiefer-Hablitzel Foundation
Sammlungen | Collections
Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts Satellite Gallery SA-KURA, Nagoya, Japan
Artothek & Bildersaal, Munich, Germany
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Burger Collection Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Collection Pictet, Geneva, Switzerland
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany
Kankuro Ueshima Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Kolumba Kunstmuseum, Cologne, Germany
Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart, Basel, Germany
Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Lichtenstein
Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany
Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan
Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, Stuttgart, Germany
Museum am Dom, Würzburg, Germany
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln, Cologne, Germany
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA
Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
SØR Rusche Sammlung, Berlin, Germany
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Kunstmuseum Lentos, Linz, Austria
Albertina, Vienna, Austria
mumok-Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
Artelier Collection: Atelier Contemporary, Graz, Austria
MAC's-Musée des Arts Contemporains, Grand-Hornu, Belgium
Collection Florence & Daniel Guerlain, Paris, France
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Bundeskunstsammlung, Berlin, Germany
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany
Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
ALTANA Kulturstiftung im Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany
Kolumba, Cologne, Germany
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Kunstsammlung NRW-Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany
Daimler Art Collection: Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin / Dresden, Germany
Sammlung Olbricht, Berlin, Germany
HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt, Düsseldorf, Germany
Pax Christi Gemeinde, Krefeld, Germany
Sammlung Murken, Münster, Germany
Kunstsammlung Faber-Castell, Nuremberg, Germany
Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart, Germany
Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
Oita Prefectural Art Museum, Oita, Oita Prefecture, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, JP Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Nagaizumi, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Princessehof Ceramics Museum, Leeuwarden, NetherlandsEKWC-European Ceramic Work Centre, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Bundesamt für Kultur, Bern, Switzerland
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Chur, Switzerland
Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Die Kunstsammlung der Mobiliar, Bern, Switzerland Stiftung Kunst Heute, Bern, Switzerland
Galleria Gottardo Foundation, Lugano, Switzerland Sturzenegger-Stiftung, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Sammlung der Bank Leu, Zürich, Switzerland
SLUMA-Saint Louis University Museum of Art, Saint Louis, USA
