Leiko Ikemura (イケムラレイコ Ikemura Reiko?, born August 22, 1951 in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese-Swiss painter and sculptor.
Biography
Leiko Ikemura left her country to study in Spain from 1973 to 1978 at the Academia de Bellas Artes in Granada 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.
Awards
2013: JaDe-Prize of the JaDe-Foundation (Japan-German-Foundation)
2008: August Macke 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, Connecticut, United States
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)
2016-17: "Leiko Ikemura: Poetics of Form" Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, USA
2013: "LEIKO IKEMURA. i-migration" Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany
2012: "Leiko Ikemura. Korekara or the Serenity of Fragile Being" Museum of Asian Art of Berlin State Museums, Germany
2011: "イケムラレイコ展; Leiko Ikemura" The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, MOMAT, jap
2008: "Emotional Drawings (tentative title)" The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 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, Tokyo, 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, Tokyo, jap
2006: "Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin" Neue Nationalgalerie, 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 Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein (solo)
2001: "Les années lumière", Cantonal Museum of Fine 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, Kyoto, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, jap
1999: "Sign of life" Melbourne International Biennal, Japan Pavillon, Melbourne, au (solo)
1999: "La razon para la impresion" Mueso de Arte Moderno de Medellin, Colombia
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, Kyoto, jap
1989: "Drawing as Itself" The National Museum of Art, Osaka, jap
1988: "Leiko Ikemura", Cantonal Museum of Fine 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), ch (solo)
1985: "Vom Zeichnen" Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Kasseler Kunstverein, Museum moderner Kunst MUMOK, Wien, at
1983: "Leiko Ikemura" Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, de (solo)
Public Collections (Selection)
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Kolumba, Art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Germany
Museum Kunst Palast, Kunstmuseum Duesseldorf, Germany
Kunstmuseum Linz, Lentos, Museum of modern Art Linz, Austria
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
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 Yau, 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 Basho, 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: Kenzaburō Ōe, Leiko Ikemura, editor (Nobel Prize 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
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