LEIKO IKEMURA. Aún más mañanas (Even more mornings)

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Sinus Woman, 2018, tempera on jute, 100 x 150 cm © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2021. / Photo: Jörg von Bruchhausen.

Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos CAB, Burgos, Spain

Leiko Ikemura composes for the Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos CAB a call of attention on an increasingly suffocating society ...

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Renewal Commemorative Collection Exhibition: Turning and Playing Voices

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Thinking, 1985, Shiga Museum of Art, Japan © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst 2021.

Shiga Museum of Art, Otsu, Japan

 

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Swiss Sculpture since 1945

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Memento Mori I, 2012, glazed terracotta, 30 x 130 x 40,5 cm © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn.

Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland

This comprehensive exhibition inside and outside the Kunsthaus offers the public their first overview of an exciting chapter in Swiss art history.

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OUTSIDEINSIDE. 20 Years of the Herbert Gerisch Foundation

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Sleeping Figure in Red, 1997/2012, © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2021./ Photo: Jörg von Bruchhausen.

Herbert Gerisch Foundation, Neumünster, Germany

A success story to be celebrated with the exhibition OUTSIDEINSIDE.

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Passage of Life

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Fuji Face, 2013, glazed terracotta, 42 x 87 x 70 cm, © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn. / Photo: Kei Okano.

Hekinan City Tatsukichi Fujii Museum of Contemporary Art, Aichi, Japan

Exhibition as a special project for the reopening of Hekinan City Tatsukichi Fujii Museum of Contemporary Art

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Leiko Ikemura & Chiharu Shiota. Holding the Universe in the Hand

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Planet in Hands (detail), 2021, photograph by Leiko Ikemura, invitation Kenji Taki Gallery © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn.

KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Nagoya, Japan

This collaborative exhibition was realized after the communication and dialogues between two artists.

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Past and Present. Positions of Japanese Photography

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Girl-V, 2004, black and white photography on baryta paper, 53 x 74,5 cm © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn.

Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Verein zur Förderung moderner Kunst e.V., Goslar, Germany

Sensuality and silence, pleasure and asceticism, overabundance and emptiness, busyness and timelessness. But to what extent do these ideas of Japan correspond to Western clichés? What topics do contemporary photographers take up?

On the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the German-Japanese friendship, the exhibition examines these questions with over 80 works.

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Portraits

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C.H.R., 2019, tempera on nettle, 40 x 30 cm © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2021. / Photo: Jörg von Bruchhausen.

Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany

This exhibition is dedicated to the portrait and combines the most varied forms of expression of the representation of these genres.

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Matières en lumière. Sculptures de Rodin à Louise Bourgeois (Materials in light. Sculptures from Rodin to Louise Bourgeois)

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Yellow Figure with Three Arms, 1996, glazed terracotta, 65 x 31 x 31 cm, © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn.

Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

The exhibition offers a survey of two hundred years of creative expression, focusing on works that have maintained a connection with the figure, nature, or objects, a connection that has been endlessly reexamined.

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Publications 2020 - Leiko Ikemura

© Studio Ikemura, 2020.

Studio Ikemura, Berlin, Germany

A flashback on 2020 in publications.

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Human After All

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Installation view, Human After All at Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden, Netherlands 2020 © Leiko Ikemura and Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, 2020. Photo: Ruben van Vliet.

Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden, Netherlands

The Princessehof will present a large, contemporary exhibition,

which will show ceramic reflections in contemporary art.

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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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KölnSkulptur #10. ÜberNatur – Natural Takeover

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Katzenmädchen mit Rheinblick, 2008, bronze and concrete, Stoffel Collection, Cologne © Leiko Ikemura. / Photo: Martinevans123, August 17, 2012, published under the rights of Creative Commons (CC) on wikipedia.

Skulpturenpark Köln, Riehler Straße, Cologne, Germany

ÜberNatur - Natural Takeover

is now the 10th edition of KölnSkulptur.

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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. PAINTINGS

Cover shot by © Donata Wenders, book design by Julia Vukovic, published by Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2019.

Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2019

Released June 13th, 2019 at Art Basel.

 

Take your chance and immerse into an other universe -

the world of Leiko Ikemura, Paintings.

 

And listen to -OF PEBBLES AND STONES (FOR LEIKO IKEMURA) - a piece specially composed by Ayumi Paul for this artist book.

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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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