Takashi Murakami

Takashi Murakami (Japanese村上 隆, Murakami Takashi, born 1 February 1962 in Tokyo) is a Japanese artist.

Takashi Murakami has received with his works international resonance. He studied at the Tōkyō Daigaku Geijutsu in Tokyo. He became internationally known with paintings, which primarily relate to the otaku subculture, by taking out their motives out of context and is isolated or incorporated into other contexts. Media effect of the order was to produce designs for the bag manufacturer Louis Vuitton. Since then, Murakami is a hand questioned as an artist, on the other hand it is popular between art and design and pop culture. This is underlined by the fact that Murakami has designed the CD cover for the single Stronger and the cover design to the album Graduation by Kanye West 2007.

Murakami himself calls his Superflat art. He refers only to one of several dimensions to the lack of perspective and depth in his paintings. In his book, The Meaning of the Nonsense of the Meaning he formulated Superflat as a philosophical theory about the Japanese culture.

In 2001, Murakami Kaikai Kiki Co., the company that emerged from its former studio Hiropon Factory. Kaikai Kiki Co. serves the production and marketing of the art objects themselves, but also the merchandising articles or cartoons. Murakami Kaikai Kiki Co. In addition to representing younger Japanese artists, and gives collaborations between artists and fashion labels or the music scene.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2001: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
• 2002: Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
• 2003: Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
• 2007: Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles ), United States
• 2008: MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
• 2009: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain
• 2010: Palace of Versailles, France