Leiko Ikemura - In Praise of Light

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Exhibition view, Leiko Ikemura - In Praise of Light, St. Matthäus-Kirche, Berlin © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2020. / Photo: Philipp von Matt.

St. Matthäus, Berlin, Germany

Painting from light and color.

The Berlin artist Leiko Ikemura transforms the light

flowing into the St. Matthäus church ...

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Human after all

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Black Miko in Blue Dress, 1995, glazed terracotta, 55,5 x 29 x 26 cm © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2020. / Photo: Jochen Littkemann.

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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Leiko Ikemura. From East to East

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Yellow Scape, 2019, tempera and oil on jute, 110 x 180 cm © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2020. / Photo: Jörg von Bruchhausen.

Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany

The Kunsthalle Rostock has invited Ikemura to relate her art to works from the Kunsthalle's collection ...

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AQUARELL

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Cindy, 2015, tempera on nettle, 70 x 50 cm © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2020. / Photo: Eric Tschernow.

Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz, Germany

18 positions of contemporary watercolor painting presenting very different artistic attitudes ...

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So wie wir sind 2.0

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Reclining Face Orange (after Gerhard Richter), 2008, tempera on jute, 50 x 60 cm, Miettinen Collection © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2020. / Photo: Jörg von Bruchhausen.

Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany

The Way We Are 2.0 brings together on 2,500 square metres more than 180 works from more than 100 artists from various times and contexts in a wide-ranging investigation of content and form.

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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

Just 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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