Maki Shimizu

Maki Shimizu (born 1981 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese comic artist , graphic novel writer and illustrator who has lived in Berlin since 2006 .

Life

Shimizu attended the Shōyō High School Toride (取 手 松陽 高等学校 Toride Shōyō Kōtōgakkō ) from 1996 to 1999 and graduated with a focus on art, painting and printing techniques . From 1999 to 2003 she studied fine arts with a focus on printing technology at the University of Tsukuba and earned a Bachelor of Arts in "Design". She then completed a degree in graphic design from 2003 to 2006 at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences with a diploma . From 2006 on she lives as a freelanceArtist and illustrator in Berlin. From 2007 to 2013 she worked in the Musenstube studio community in Berlin-Neukölln . She was involved in many art projects such as the sketch festival in Görlitz 2017, The Big Draw Berlin 2010 or the comic festival Munich 2017. From 2013 to 2016 she was a lecturer at the Technische Kunsthochschule Berlin . In addition, she also gave several comic workshops in schools. After 2012 and 2014 she was invited again to the 18th  Comic Salon Erlangen 2018, this time to present her comic book Adagio N ° 3 Mindvollness (2017). She has also attended the Leipzig Book Fair every year for her publishers every year since 2011. As part of the Summer of Comics 2019 at the Museum für Kommunikation Berlin , Shimizu was presented with the “large comic scholarship” of the State of Berlin and invited to a group exhibition of the scholarship holders.

Her 400-page graphic novel Über Leben ( Jaja Verlag 2021) tells of the gentrification and hard life of creative people in Berlin, where there is less and less freedom, embedded in a bizarre, crazy crime plot. Shimizu's two drawn alter egos , Adagio the cat and Maki Maus, are characters in the graphic novel, as in their comic books. The appearance of the graphic novel brought her short TV portraits in 2021 on Arte and in Kulturzeit on 3sat as well as radio reports on Deutschlandfunk Kultur Kompressor , Radio Eins Literaturagenten , on WDR 3 , Deutschlandfunk Corso and rbbKultur .

As a visual artist, she uses pencil, ink , pen , fineliner , woodcut , lithography , screen printing and etching . Her preferred motifs are portraits and everyday scenes. Analogous to street photography, there is the urban sketching movement of the draftsman, documented in city meetings (for example the sketch festival ) and books such as Urban Sketchbook Volume 1 (Jülie Verlag, 2017), in which Shimizu was one of forty artists involved.

Maki Shimizu lives and works in Berlin.

factories

Author

• Adagio N ° 1 - Everyday Life in Berlin. Comic book. Jaja, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-943417-00-5 .
• with Yuko Chikazawa: YUKI - Portraits of Our Friends. Jaja, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-943417-40-1 . (Art book with over 100 woodcut portraits, German / English / Japanese)
• Adagio N ° 2 - In the darkest winter ever. Comic book. Jaja, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-943417-60-9 .
• Adagio N ° 3 - Mindfulness. Comic book. Jaja, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-946642-21-3 .
• To survive. Graphic novel. Jaja, Berlin 2021, ISBN 978-3-948904-01-2 .

Draftsman / Illustrator

• Maki's pet book. Original texts by Paul Eipper. Peperoni Books, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-9809677-4-7 .
• Anett Ecklebe: The hedgehog and the bats. Picture book, illustration by Maki Shimizu. Mückenschwein-Verlag, Stralsund 2013, ISBN 978-3-936311-10-5 .
• Monica Piffaretti: Il viaggio di Isotta, la tartaruga che trotta. Children's book, illustration by Maki Shimizu. SJW , Zurich 2017.
• Urban Sketchbook. Volume 1, Jueli Verlag, Mainz 2017, ISBN 978-3-945584-00-2 .
• Friedrich W. Zimmermann : love lust prostate: the comic. Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-7528-3581-6 .
• LCB / Augusto Paim (ed.): Mate. 24-hour comic at Wannsee. Jaja, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-948904-04-3 .

Awards

• 2006: Space Prize for International Students in the Graphic Novel (Grand Prize) category for Ziqqurrat
• 2013: Bronze award at the Art Directors Club competition in the illustration category for "Thuringia - all mattresses are gray at night" in ADAC travel magazine
• 2014: Shortlist nomination for The Most Beautiful German Books Prize of the Book Art Foundation for Yuki
• 2016: The Kamiyama Artist in Residence (KAIR), Japan
• 2019: Comics scholarship from the state of Berlin

Web links

• Maki Shimizu's website (German and English)
• Detailed exhibition list
• Working sketches of the artist on Flickr
• Artist portrait Maki Shimizu on page-online from September 13, 2013
• Maki Shimizu at German Comic Guide

supporting documents

1. ↑ Ateliergemeinschaft Musenstube today , accessed on July 10 2021st
2. ^ Artist profile Maki Shimizu at the Munich Comic Festival, accessed on July 9, 2021.
3. ↑ Chapter Japan: Maki Shimizu , accessed on July 9, 2021.
4. ↑ Maki Shimizu at the 18th Comic Salon Erlangen , comic-salon.de, accessed on July 9, 2021.
5. ↑ 2nd Berlin Comic Scholarship : Exhibition from May 11 to August 25, 2019 , summer-of-comics.de, accessed on July 11, 2021.
6. ↑ "Comic: Shimizu about life" , arte.tv from July 6, 2021, accessed on July 10, 2021.
7. ↑ The life of the creative in Berlin: "Über Leben" , rbb-online.de from July 5, 2021, accessed on July 10, 2021.
8. ↑ Urban Sketchbook Volume 1 , accessed July 11, 2021.
9. ↑ Internet Archive Version of November 7, 2014 of the publisher's information on the book , accessed on July 9, 2021.
10. ↑ Das Leben der Kreativen in Berlin , rbb-online.de from July 5, 2021, accessed on July 9, 2021.
11. ↑ Shortlist The Most Beautiful German Books 2014 , accessed on July 9, 2021.
12. ↑ Berlin Comic Scholarship 2019 for Maki Shimizu , buchmarkt.de from December 7, 2018, accessed on July 9, 2021.