Leiko Ikemura

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Leiko Ikemura (イケムラレイコ, Ikemura Reiko^?, born August 22, 1951 in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese-Swiss painter and sculptor.

[edit] Biography

Leiko Ikemura left her country to study in Spain from 1973 to 1978 at the Academia de Bellas Artes in Granada and Seville. In 1979 she moved to Zurich to live and worked there for 4 years. The first of her mature paintings developed around 1980. Her first solo show in a public institution took place in 1983 at the "Bonn Kunstverein", in Bonn, Germany. That same year she spent as an artist in residency in Nuremberg, (“Stadtzeichnerin” upon invitation of the city of Nuremberg). During the next several years Ikemura had numerous solo shows in galleries and public institutions, among others: 1987 at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel, Melbourne International Biennial 1999, Japan Pavilion. In 1985 the artist moved to Cologne. Her turn to sculpture began in the year 1987. In the 1990s the female figure crystallized as her main topic for her work during the several years since. In 1991 the artist became a Professor for Painting at the "Universität der Künste" (University of fine Arts) in Berlin.

Leiko Ikemura lives and works in Berlin and Cologne.

[edit] Books

• "u mi no ko" (jap) poems and drawings by Leiko Ikemura, The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Akaaka (Japan), ISBN 4903545040
• "andalusia" authors: John Yau, Leiko Ikemura, Weidle Verlag, ISBN 3931135969
• "Leiko Ikemura: Sculpture, painting, drawing" authors: Hans-Jürgen Schwalm, Wilfried Dickhoff, Britta E. Buhlmann, Elisabeth Bronfen, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen ISBN 3929040816
• "beyond the horizon" de, en, jap, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art; T. Kitagawa, editors: Fölbach, Dietmar ISBN 3934795501
• "Leiko Ikemura" authors: Udo Kittelmann, Friedemann Malsch, Noemi Smolik, editor: Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, Cologne, Milano
• "Leiko Ikemura" authors: Gerard A. Goodrow, Kimio Jinno, Friedeman Malsch, Alexander Pühringer, Cantz, ISBN 3893228039
• "Alpenindianer" authors: Leiko Ikemura, Akira Tatehata, editor: Satani Gallery, Tokyo
• "Hundertundelf Haiku" authors: Matsuo Basho, 22 drawings from Leiko Ikemura, editor: Amman Verlag, Zurich
• "Leiko Ikemura: Gemälde, Zeichnungen 1980-1987", authors: Dieter Koepplin, Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Basel) ISBN 3720400530
• "Der stumme Schrei" authors: Kenzaburo Oe, Leiko Ikemura, editor (Nobel Price Edition): Coron Verlag (CH)
• "Shadows" authors: Leiko Ikemura, editor: Johan Jonker, Amsterdam et Gabriele Rivet, Cologne
• "Leiko Ikemura" authors: Curt Heigl, Anton Wolfgang Graf von Faber-Castell, Kunsthalle Nürnberg
• "Ancestors" authors: Leiko Ikemura, edition, Kunstverein St. Gallen, (CH)
• "Wild cats and domestic cats" authors: Leiko Ikemura, 61 drawings, Edition Stähli, Zurich

[edit] External links

• Leiko Ikemura in the German National Library catalogue
• List of shows, public collections, gallerys etc.
• Photos of paintings & sculptures
• Kolumba Museum, Cologne, Germany
• Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
• Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
• Galerie Karsten Greve, St. Moritz, Switzerland
• Galerie Karsten Greve, Milano, Italy
• Gallery HAM, Nagoya, Japan
• Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
• Shugoarts Gallery, Tokyo, Japan