Leiko Ikemura

Leiko Ikemura (Japaneseイケムラレイコ, actually :池 村 玲子, Ikemura Reiko, born August 22, 1951 in Tsu, Mie Prefecture ) is a Japanese -Swiss painter, graphic artist and sculptor.

Biography

Born as a post-war child, Leiko Ikemura spent her youth in issued by the destruction and deprivation of Japan. She studied Spanish literature at the University of Foreign Languages ​​Osaka and moved to Spain in 1972 to deepen the study in Salamanca and Granada. At the same time she began in a sculptor's studio to work on sculptures. The time between 1973 and 1978 she devoted to the study of painting at the Academy in Seville. After moving to Switzerland Leiko Ikemura leaves in the Zurich art scene of the early eighties, their first distinctive tracks. At the same time, the Bonner Kunstverein is showing their work for the first time. At the invitation of the city of Nuremberg in 1983 she operated nine months as a "city illustrator " and shows her work thereafter in a well-received solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Nürnberg. A return to Switzerland appeared Ikemura then no longer possible. 1983 Participation in Currently 83 There she moved to Cologne in 1985 to what was then the epicenter of contemporary art. It was followed by numerous solo and group exhibitions, such as in 1987 in the Museum of Contemporary Art (Basel) (solo ), 1988 Made in Cologne in Dumont Kunsthalle, designed with contemporaries such as Martin Kippenberger, Sigmar Polke, Rosemarie Trockel, among others 1999 Ikemura at the Melbourne International Biennial 1999 the Japanese Pavilion.

In 1991, she follows the appointment at the University of Arts Berlin University of the Arts (then University of the Arts HDK ).

Since then, lives and works in Berlin Leiko Ikemura and Cologne.

Awards

Exhibitions (selection)

Public collections (selection)

  • Musée National d' Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
  • Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  • Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
  • Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
  • Columba (museum), museum of the archdiocese of Cologne, Germany
  • Museum Kunst Palast, Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, Germany
  • Kunstmuseum Linz, Lentos, Museum of Modern Art Linz, Austria
  • National Museum of Modern Art (The National Museum of Modern Art ), Tokyo, Japan
  • The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka, Japan
  • Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan
  • Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
  • Hara Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
Tsu (Mie) Melbourne International Biennial 1999 Deutscher Kritikerpreis Connecticut Frankfurter Kunstverein Roppongi Hills Mori Tower Neue Nationalgalerie Aichi Prefecture National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Karsten Greve Museum of Fine Arts Berne Lentos Art Museum Tochigi, Tochigi Matsuo Bashō John Yau artnet Integrated Authority File
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