Leiko Ikemura. Talk to the sky, seeking light

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Pietà in cherry red, 2023/94, tempera and oil on nettle, 160 x 110cm. © Leiko Ikemura.

Lisson Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

Opening receptions on May 1, 2025, 6-8 p.m.

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Leiko Ikemura. Motherscapes

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Yellow Scape, 2020, Tempera and oil on jute, 160 x 110 cm / © Leiko Ikemura and Bildrecht, Vienna 2025. / Photo: Lisson Gallery, Source: ALBERTINA

The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna, Austria

Solo Exhibition

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I Will Look Into the Earth

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Colonia, 2014, tempera on jute, 190 x 290 cm. © Leiko Ikemura.

Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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What the Artist's Eye Sees. Buffet, École de Paris, and Contemporary Art

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Asa no Umi, 2005 © Leiko Ikemura

Bernard Buffet Museum, Shizuoka, Japan

(Original Japanese Exhibition title: アーティストの目は何をみていたか―ビュフェ、エコール・ド・パリ、そして現代アートへ)

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Recent Acquisitions and Collection+ Women Artists, Each Her Own World

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Arts Maebashi Recent Acquisitions and Collection+ Women Artists, Each Her Own World, 2025

Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

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Träumerei

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O.T. / Untitled, 1988, chalk on paper, 80 x 60cm. © Leiko Ikemura.

Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Gunma, Japan

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Challenged Togetherness. Anniversary Exhibition 2025

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Lying (Red), 1997, terracotta glazed, 40 x 103 x 43cm. © Leiko Ikemura.

Kunstmuseum Magdeburg Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany

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Breaking the walls, Dino appears

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Haus-Frau (House-Woman), 1991, Patinated bronze, 22 × 19 × 21 cm, Edition: 3/5, © Leiko Ikemura

Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany

An interdisciplinary group show curated by Leiko Ikemura

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Vertigo

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Preise of Light II, 2020, tempera and oil on jute, 290 x 190cm. © Leiko Ikemura

Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles Island, France

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What is with me now. ‘Human figure’ and its ‘surroundings’ in art

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Lying, 1997/2006, patinated bronze. © Leiko Ikemura, Courtesy of ShugoArts / Photo: Philipp von Matt / Source: Bernard Buffet Museum

Bernard Buffet Museum, Shizuoka, Japan

(Original Japanese Exhibition title: いま私とともにあるもの―美術の中の ‘ひと’ とその ‘周り’)

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The Day I Saw You: Portraits from the Amparo and Manuel Foundation Collection (2025)

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Standing in Dark Yellow (Stehende in Dunkelgelb), 1995/96, oil on canvas, 63 x 43 cm. © Leiko Ikemura./ Photo: Jörg von Bruchhausen. Collection: AMMA Foundation.

CEX Centro de Exploración y Pensamiento Crítico, Mexico City, Mexico

(Original exhibition title: The Day I Saw You: Retratos de la Colección Fundación Amparo y Manuel (2025))

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Leiko Ikemura on the cover of Monopol Magazine

Monopol issued on December 20, 2024

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Pairings

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Ur, 1992, patinated bronze, 47 x 27.5 x 23 cm © Leiko Ikemura. / Photo: Martin P. Bühler / Kunstmuseum Basel, Inv. G 2019.7, Gift of Catherine and Bernard Dreyfus Soguel, 2019.

Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland

(German exhibition title: Paarlauf)

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KölnSkulptur #11: Body Manoeuvres

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Leiko Ikemura, Katzenmaedechen mit Rhein-Blick, Stoffel Collection, Cologne, Skulpturen Park Köln, © Leiko Ikemura 1999. Photo: Martinevans123, 17 August 2012

Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany

KölnSkulptur is a biennial series of exhibitions at Skulpturenpark Köln (Cologne Sculpture Park).

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Inauguration of the new church windows

Chapel and sacristy of the Wunderblutkirche © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2023./ Photo: Philipp von Matt.

Wunderblutkirche St. Nikolai, Bad Wilsnack, Germany

Leiko Ikemura redesigned the stained glass windows in the chapel.

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Festival MANAZURU. SCULPTED STONES 2021

Meoto Tori, 2021, Komatsu stone, ca. 200 x 240 x 160 cm & ca. 200 x 360 x 160 cm © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn and Festival MANAZURU, 2021

Manazuru-Machi, Kanagawa, Japan

Manazuru Stone Sculpture Festival is an art festival that combines the beauty of stone and art and sends the Japanese stone culture out into the world.

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STOA169

From Hell to Heaven - Leiko Ikemura’s column for STOA169 © Leiko Ikemura, 2020. / Photo: Felix Pitscheneder.

STOA169, Polling, Germany

The first construction phase of STOA169

is now open to the public.

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Open Air. Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Usagi Kannon II, 2013/19, patinated bronze, 330 x 118 x 155 cm, Yorkshire Sculpture Park 2020 © Leiko Ikemura. / Photo: Jonty Wilde, Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Formal Garden, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, United Kingdom

Born in 1951 in Tsu, Japan, Leiko Ikemura combines characteristics of European and Japanese art across drawing, painting and sculpture. Ikemura studied painting at the Academia de Bellas Artes in...

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Leiko Ikemura. Museum zu Allerheiligen Collection

Exhibition view, permanent exhibition at Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen 2018 © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2018; Ursula Goetz (painting on the left). Photo: Museum zu Allerheiligen.

Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Leiko Ikemura at the permanent exhibition of the Museum zu Allerheiligen.

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