Leiko Ikemura. Floating Spheres

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Girl with a Baby, 2021. © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2024./ Photo: Jörg von Bruchhausen.

Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany

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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.

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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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MOMAT Collection

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Reclining Girl, 1997, Oil on jute, 100 x 120 cm © Leiko Ikemura. / Collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT), Tokyo, Japan

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Collection 25 I

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© Leiko Ikemura

Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland

(Original German title: Sammlung 25 I)

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Leiko Ikemura on the cover of Monopol Magazine

Monopol issued on December 20, 2024

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MOT Collection. Leiko Ikemura and Mark Manders. Rising Light / Frozen Moment

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Rising Light, 2022, tempera and oil on nettle, 180 x 150cm. © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2024. Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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Transformation Paper

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Red Thoughts, 2025, papier mâché, thread,drawing on black cardboard. © Leiko Ikemura

Haus des Papiers, Berlin, Germany

Experimental Engagement with Paper as a Material

(German Original title: Transformation Papier)

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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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