Leiko Ikemura

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Leiko Ikemura ( Japanese イ ケ ム ラ レ イ コ , actually: 池 村 玲子 , Ikemura Reiko ; born August 22, 1951 in Tsu , Mie Prefecture ) is a Japanese-Swiss painter , graphic artist and sculptor .

biography

Leiko Ikemura studied Spanish literature at the Foreign Language University in Osaka and emigrated to Spain in 1972 to deepen his studies in Salamanca and Granada . From 1973 to 1978 she studied painting at the "Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría" in Seville . After moving to Switzerland, Leiko Ikemura made her first distinctive mark on the Zurich art scene in the early 1980s. At the same time, the Bonner Kunstverein showed her work for the first time. At the invitation of the City of Nuremberg , she worked as a city draftsman for nine months in 1983 and then showed her work in a highly regarded solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Nürnberg . In 1983 Ikemura took part in aktuell '83 . Numerous solo and group exhibitions followed, such as 1987 at the Kunstmuseum Basel Gegenwart (solo), 1988 Made in Cologne at the Dumont Kunsthalle, with contemporaries such as Martin Kippenberger , Sigmar Polke , Rosemarie Trockel and others. In 1999 Ikemura designed for the Melbourne International Biennial 1999 the Japanese Pavilion.

In 1991 she was appointed to the University of the Arts Berlin UdK (then Hochschule der Künste HdK), and in 2014 she was appointed professor at the Joshibi University for Art and Design, Sagamihara , Kanagawa , Japan . Since then she has lived and worked in Berlin and Cologne .

Awards

  • 1981 Scholarship from the Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation , Federal Office for Culture of the Swiss Confederation
  • 1981 Prize from the Foundation for Graphic Art in Switzerland
  • 1983–84: Urban draftsman in Nuremberg, Résidence d'artiste invité par la ville de Nuremberg, Germany
  • 1988 Jury Prize of the International Triennial for Original Graphics
  • 2001 German Critics' Prize for Fine Arts, Association of German Critics V., Germany
  • 2002 The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Artist Residency, New Haven , Connecticut , USA
  • 2007 Iserlohn Art Prize , Community Foundation of the Sparkasse Iserlohn / Wessel-Verein, Germany
  • 2008 August Macke Prize of the Hochsauerlandkreis
  • 2013 JaDe Prize from the JaDe Foundation
  • 2014 Cologne Fine Art Prize
  • 2015 Sparda Art Prize NRW

Exhibitions (selection)

Public collections (selection)

Own publications

  • todo y nada. And did you know I have two hidden wings. Nuremberg 2011. ISBN 978-3-86984-206-6 and ISBN 978-3-86984-205-9
  • Shadows. Johan Jonker (Amsterdam), Gabriele Rivet, Cologne 1992.
  • Being. Gallery HAM, Nagoya (Japan) 1995.
  • Alpine Indians. Akira Tatehata (texts). Satani Gallery, Tokyo.
  • Transfiguration Ed .: National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (The National Museum of Modern Art), MOMAT, authors: Mayen Beckmann, Reinhold Neven DuMont , Hara Maiko, Hosaka Kenjiro, Leiko Ikemura, Friedemann Malsch, Mori Ichiro, Tatehata Akira, Katharina Winnekes, Editors: Hara Maiko, Hosaka Kenjiro, Mori Ichiro, Nakamura Reiko, Paperback, 272 p., En, jp, dt, ISBN 978-4-9902409-2-9

literature

Web links

Television reports

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petra Krimphove, Berlin swissinfo.ch: Leiko Ikemura: From Zurich to the world. Retrieved July 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Professors of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts and the University of the Arts 1975 - WS 2017/18. University of the Arts Berlin, accessed on July 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Leiko Ikemura - What do your Japanese roots mean for your art? Retrieved on July 25, 2019 (German).
  4. ^ Homepage Museum for East Asian Art Cologne Exhibitions , accessed on September 26, 2015
  5. ↑ Empathy and abstraction. The modern age of women in Germany. Exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Oct. 2015 - Feb. 2016, accessed on May 3, 2016
  6. ↑ suddenly the wim turns. House at the forest lake.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hausamwaldsee.de   accessed on April 6, 2018
  7. ↑ Leiko Ikemura in dialogue with Donata and Wim Wenders. Exhibition Brandenburg Gate Foundation | Max Liebermann Haus, accessed on April 6, 2018
  8. ↑ ‹St. Matthew Foundation. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ikemura, Leiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ikemura, Reiko; 池 村 玲子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese-Swiss painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Tsu , Mie Prefecture