Creature 2017
Terracotta glasiert und signiert unten
22 x 29 x 18 cm
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Vita
Curriculum Vitae
| 1951 | Born in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan |
| 1970–1972 | Studied at the State University Osaka, Japan |
| 1973–1978 | Studied at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría, Sevilla, Spain |
| 1990–2016 | Professorship at Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany |
| Since 2014 | Professorship at Joshibi University of Art and Design, Kanagawa, Japan |
Grants and awards
| 2020 | 70th 'Art Encouragement Prize of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Japan' for 2019 |
| 2014 | Cologne Fine Art Prize, Germany |
| Sparda Art Prize NRW, Hasen-Tempel, Recklinghausen, Germany | |
| 2013 | JaDe-Prize of the JaDe-Foundation (Japanese-German-Foundation), Cologne, Germany |
| 2009 | August Macke Prize, August Macke Curatorial & HSK Meschede, Germany |
| 2008 | Artists Residency, "Casa Aguacate", Puerto Vallarta, Mexico |
| Artists Residency by the Duncan & LeBaron Families of Lincoln, NE, USA | |
| 2007 | Art Prize ofIserlohn, Community Foundation of the Sparkasse Iserlohn, Germany |
| 2002 | Artist Residency, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, New Haven, CT, USA |
| 2001 | Critics Award for Visual Arts, German Association of Critics, Berlin, Germany |
| 1996/1998 | EKWC (European Ceramic Workcentre), ´s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands |
| Prize of the Jury, International Triennial for Original Graphics, Grenchen, Switzerland | |
| 1983/1984 | "Nürnberger Stadtzeichnerin", Artist Residency Grant by Faber-Castell & Nuremberg, Germany |
| 1982 | Art Prize of Kaiserswerth, Dusseldorf, Germany |
| Prize of the Foundation for Graphic Art in Switzerland, ETH Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Second Prize of the International Drawings Triennal of the Youth, Nuremberg | |
| 1981 | Grant of the City of Zurich, Switzerland |
| Art Prize of the Kiefer-Hablitzel Foundation, Switzerland | |
Solo Exhibitions (selection until 2012)
| 2023 | "Leiko Ikemura - año del usagi", MAZ Museo de Arte Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexiko |
| "Leiko Ikemura. Witty Witches", Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, DE | |
| 2022-2023 | "Leiko Ikemura: Anima Alma", Fergus McCaffrey, New York, USA |
| An intervention „Leiko Ikemura: More Light!“, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Humboldtforum, DE | |
| 2022 | "Leiko Ikemura: Wenn Pfauen Flügel öffnen", Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, DE |
| 2021-2022 | "Leiko Ikemura: Here we are/Aquí Estamos", Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, SP |
| 2021 | "Leiko Ikemura – Usagi in Wonderland", Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK |
| Beuys + Girls + Ikemura (Leiko Ikemura / Joseph Beuys), Van Der Grinten Galerie, Köln, Germany | |
| Passage of Life, Hekinan City Tatsukichi Fujii Museum of Contemporary Art, Aichi, Japan Usagi in Wonderland, Sainsbury Art Center, Norwich, UK | |
| Aún más mañanas (Even more mornings), Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos , CAB, Burgos, Spanien | |
| 2020 | "dass der Himmel so gross ist“, Galerie Karsten Greve AG St. Moritz, Switzerland |
| Metamorphoses, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden | |
| In Praise of Light, St. Matthäuskirche, Berlin, Deutschland | |
| 2019 | Nach Neuen Meeren, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
| Our Planet Earth & Stars,The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2018 | Leiko Ikemura im Dialog mit Donata und Wim Wenders, Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin, Deutschland |
| Female Genesis, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Deutschland | |
| 2017–2018 | Märchenwald - Leiko Ikemura, Deutsches Keramikmuseum Hetjens, Düsseldorf, Deutschland |
| 2017 | Woman of Fire Dancing with Tree, Galerie Karsten Greve, Köln, Deutschland |
| No No Noh. Leiko Ikemura im Dialog mit ausgewählten Werken der Sammlung Diethard Leopold, Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Wien, Österreich | |
| 2016 | Mountains in Exile, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, Frankreich |
| Leiko Ikemura. Poetics of Form, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NE, USA | |
| Leiko Ikemura. …und plötzlich dreht der Wind, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Deutschland | |
| 2015 | Leiko Ikemura, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, Indien |
| All About Girls and Tigers, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Köln, Deutschland | |
| 2014 | Leiko Ikemura. Zeichnungen – Gemälde - Skulpturen, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Deutschland |
| Last und Lust, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Deutschland | |
| Leiko Ikemura: PIOON Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan | |
| 2013 | Oro y plata, Galerie Karsten Greve, Köln, Deutschland |
| i-migration, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Deutschland | |
| 2012 | Korekara oder Die Heiterkeit des fragilen Seins, Museum für Asiatische Kunst - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Museen Dahlem, Berlin, Deutschland |
| Mare e Monti, KOLUMBA Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum, Köln, Deutschland |
Group Exhibitions (selected)
| 2022-2023 | "Museum Ludwig, Cologne - History of a Collection with Civic Commitments”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, JP |
| “Horizonte", Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln, DE | |
| 2021 | 25th Anniversary Collection Exhibition VISION. Who is Making the work? - existence / nonexistence of “I”, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan |
| 2018–2019 | The World on Paper – Sammlung Deutsche Bank , PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, Deutschland |
| Leiko Ikemura & Corsin Fontana, Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel, Schweiz | |
| 2018 | Redon and his World. Beyond Imagination, The Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan |
| The Collection of the Takamatsu Art Museum + In Spilling Light with Chuta Kimura Takamatsu Art Museum, Shikoku, Japan | |
| objects in mirror are closer than they appear, Kunstforum Solothurn, Solothurn, Schweiz | |
| Beehave. Die Honigbiene als künstlerische Inspiration, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Schweiz | |
| Beehave. Die Honigbiene als künstlerische Inspiration, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Schweiz | |
| 2017–2019 | KölnSkulptur #9 - La Fin de Babylone. Mich wundert, dass ich so fröhlich bin! Skulpturenpark Köln, Köln, Deutschland |
| 2017–2018 | Schlaf. Eine produktive Zeitverschwendung, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Deutschland |
| Wetterbericht. Über Wetterkultur und Klimawissenschaft, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Deutschland | |
| 2017 | Tree of Life, Vangi, Sculpture Garden Museum, Mishima, Japan |
| Jung und wild. Die 1980er Jahre in München, Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, München, Deutschland | |
| Ikemura und Nolde, Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop, Ostseebad Ahrenshoop, Deutschland | |
| 2016–2017 | Passion & Obsession: From the Collection KANEKO, open space for your mind, Omaha, NE, USA |
| Bühnenreif. 1. Akt (1900-2016), Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, Deutschland | |
| 2016 | Donations – Florence & Daniel Guerlain, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Dänemark |
| Beyond Documentation, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Deutschland | |
| Spider's Thread - Spinning images of Japanese beauty, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan | |
| Sein.Antlitz.Körper – Kirchen öffnen sich der Kunst, Berliner Dom, Berlin, Deutschland | |
| Artists in Paris & Artists in connection with Mie Prefecture, Mie Prefecture Art Museum, Tsu-shi, Japan | |
| 2015–2016 | Ceramix. Ceramic art from Gauguin to Schütte, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Niederlande |
| Donation Florence & Daniel Guerlain, Nordiska Akvarellemuseet, Skärhamn, Schweden | |
| 2015 | Painter of Poetry / Poet of the Picture, Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan |
| Schön, Euch zu sehen. 160 Werke aus der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein | |
| Objectif Terre – 18ème Biennale de Céramique Contemporaine, Couvent des Cordeliers, Châteauroux, Frankreich | |
| Tiere schauen, Hegenbarth Sammlung, Berlin, Deutschland / DE | |
| Ce qui je suis maintenant. Ein Zimmer für Alfred Flechtheim, Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Deutschland | |
| playing by heart, KOLUMBA Museum, Köln, Deutschland | |
| 20. Triennale Grenchen 2015, Ausstellungshalle Grenchen, Schweiz | |
| 2014–2015 | Paul Klee und der Ferne Osten, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Köln, Deutschland |
| Japan Art Today, Kunsthaus Interlaken, Interlaken, Schweiz | |
| 2014 | Macht. Wahn. Vision. Rapunzel & Co. Von Türmen und Menschen in der Kunst, Arp Museum, Rolandseck, Remagen, Deutschland |
| Esprit d’une collection – Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Libourne, Frankreich | |
| 2013 | Back to Earth. Von Picasso bis Ai Wie Wei – Die Wiederentdeckung der Keramik in der Kunst Villa Wachholtz, Neumünster, Deutschland |
| 2012–2014 | Kunst in Berlin 1945 bis Heute, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Deutschland |
| 2012 | Innovationen in der Kunst der Schweiz, Kunsthaus Interlaken, Interlaken, Schweiz |
| Doki Doki. The Fascination Of Ceramics, The Excitement of Art, Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan |
Texts and statements on exhibitions
Gruppenausstellung
Beuys + Girls + Ikemura
Group Show
Leiko Ikemura, Joseph Beuys
September 3, 2021
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October 30, 2021
As an auspicious start to the Cologne gallery season, we are pleased to present ‘Beuys + Girls + Ikemura’, an exhibition-installation realized by internationally acclaimed artist Leiko Ikemura in collaboration with the Van der Grinten Galerie.
The exhibition is a dialogue with Joseph Beuys, whom Ikemura met in person in the early 80s, on the invitation of Dieter Koepplin, then-director of the Kupferstichkabinett (print gallery) at the Kunstmuseum Basel. This single memorable encounter made a lasting impression and brought commonalities to the fore, distilled in the terms: Transavantguardia, Eurasia, intuition, the shamanic nature of animals, wordplay and poetry, and even Eastern philosophy, primarily Taoism. But the main thing the two artists have in common is the human female as a recurring motif. In the case of Leiko Ikemura in the form of her now iconic “girl beings”, which first appeared as a key motif in 90s, and found in the Beuys oeuvre mainly in the drawings from the 50s, in which female figures dominated entire work series.
In addition to several ceramic pieces and a brand new little glass sculpture, Leiko Ikemura here shows mainly works on paper: girls, girl-like hybrid beings, heads, heads with text and text images with a palimpsest character. She positions these works in immediate dialogical proximity to the drawings and watercolors of Joseph Beuys, a selection of extraordinary pictures that pursue the thematic thread of the “actress” (as shaman, artiste and female faun), of cosmologies, and animate beings of our world, such as plants and animals. All of these works are from the 50s.
The catalogue/book ‘Leiko Ikemura/Joseph Beuys: Beuys + Girls + Ikemura’ appears in conjunction with the exhibition in a limited single-printing edition. The book includes plates of all the works displayed in the show and a comprehensive interview with Leiko Ikemura from August 2021, in which gallerist Franz van der Grinten explores with the artist the genesis of the exhibition.
The Van der Grinten Galerie has also published a special limited luxury edition of the book in a linen-bound slipcase, which includes an original Leiko Ikemura drawing from 2021 (ed. of 10).
The book will be presented in the gallery on Sunday, 19 September 2021 on the occasion of Friedhelm Mennekes’ artist talk with Leiko Ikemura.
Gruppenausstellung
Beuys + Girls + Ikemura
Group Show
Leiko Ikemura, Joseph Beuys
September 3, 2021
—
October 30, 2021
As an auspicious start to the Cologne gallery season, we are pleased to present ‘Beuys + Girls + Ikemura’, an exhibition-installation realized by internationally acclaimed artist Leiko Ikemura in collaboration with the Van der Grinten Galerie.
The exhibition is a dialogue with Joseph Beuys, whom Ikemura met in person in the early 80s, on the invitation of Dieter Koepplin, then-director of the Kupferstichkabinett (print gallery) at the Kunstmuseum Basel. This single memorable encounter made a lasting impression and brought commonalities to the fore, distilled in the terms: Transavantguardia, Eurasia, intuition, the shamanic nature of animals, wordplay and poetry, and even Eastern philosophy, primarily Taoism. But the main thing the two artists have in common is the human female as a recurring motif. In the case of Leiko Ikemura in the form of her now iconic “girl beings”, which first appeared as a key motif in 90s, and found in the Beuys oeuvre mainly in the drawings from the 50s, in which female figures dominated entire work series.
In addition to several ceramic pieces and a brand new little glass sculpture, Leiko Ikemura here shows mainly works on paper: girls, girl-like hybrid beings, heads, heads with text and text images with a palimpsest character. She positions these works in immediate dialogical proximity to the drawings and watercolors of Joseph Beuys, a selection of extraordinary pictures that pursue the thematic thread of the “actress” (as shaman, artiste and female faun), of cosmologies, and animate beings of our world, such as plants and animals. All of these works are from the 50s.
The catalogue/book ‘Leiko Ikemura/Joseph Beuys: Beuys + Girls + Ikemura’ appears in conjunction with the exhibition in a limited single-printing edition. The book includes plates of all the works displayed in the show and a comprehensive interview with Leiko Ikemura from August 2021, in which gallerist Franz van der Grinten explores with the artist the genesis of the exhibition.
The Van der Grinten Galerie has also published a special limited luxury edition of the book in a linen-bound slipcase, which includes an original Leiko Ikemura drawing from 2021 (ed. of 10).
The book will be presented in the gallery on Sunday, 19 September 2021 on the occasion of Friedhelm Mennekes’ artist talk with Leiko Ikemura.
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