Leiko Ikemura

Leiko Ikemura studied at Osaka University from 1970–1972. She then left Japan to study in Spain from 1973 to 1978 at the Academia de Bellas Artes in Granada and Seville. In 1979, Ikemura moved to Zurich to live and worked there for four years. The first of her mature paintings developed around 1980. The first solo exhibition 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 few years, Ikemura had numerous solo exhibitions in galleries and public institutions, such as: the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel (1987), Melbourne International Biennial 1999, in the Japan Pavilion.

In 1985 she moved to Cologne. Her interest in working with sculpture began in 1987. In the 1990s, the female figure crystallized as the main focus of her work. In 1991, Ikemura became a Professor for Painting at the Universität der Künste (University of the Arts) in Berlin.

Leiko Ikemura lives and works in Berlin and Cologne.

• 2010: "Leiko Ikemura. August-Macke-Preisträgerin 2008", Sauerland-Museum-Arnsberg, Germany[1][2]
• 2011: "Leiko Ikemura: Transfiguration", The National Museum of Modern Art, MOMAT, Tokyo, Japan[3]
• 2012: "Leiko Ikemura. Korekara or the Serenity of Fragile Being", Museum of Asian Art, Berlin, Germany[4]
• 2013: "Leiko Ikemura. i-migration", Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany
• 2014: "Leiko Ikemura: PIOON", Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Nagaizumi, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
• 2015/16: "All about Girls and Tigers. Leiko Ikemura", Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln, Germany[5]
• 2016: "Leiko Ikemura. …and suddenly the wind turns", Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany[6]
• 2017: "Ikemura und Nolde", Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop, Germany
• 2018: "Im Atelier Liebermann: Leiko Ikemura im Dialog mit Donata und Wim Wenders", Stiftung Brandenburger Tor – Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin
• 2019: "Leiko Ikemura Our Planet – Earth & Stars", The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan[7]
• 2019: "Leiko Ikemura – Toward New Seas", Kunstmuseum Basel, Schwitzerland[8]
• 2020: "Leiko Ikemura – In Praise of Light", St.-Matthäus-Kirche, Berlin, Germany
• 2021: "Leiko Ikemura – Usagi in Wonderland“, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, Great Britain[9]
• 2021: “Leiko Ikemura: Here we are/Aquí Estamos“, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, Spain[10]
• 2022: "Leiko Ikemura: Wenn Pfauen Flügel öffnen“, Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany[11]

• "Leiko Ikemura. Our Planet. Earth & Stars イケムラレイコ　土と星" authors: Mitsue Nagaya, Anita Haldemann, Michiko Kasahara, Stefan Kraus, Wim Wenders, Udo Kittelmann, Atsushi Tanaka, Toshiyuki Horie, Kenjiro Hosaka, editors: Mitsue Nagaya, Mina Hisamatsu, Shiori Takano
• "u mi no ko" (jap) poems and drawings by Leiko Ikemura, The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Akaaka (Japan), ISBN 4-903545-04-0
• "andalusia" authors: John Yau, Leiko Ikemura, Weidle Verlag, ISBN 3-931135-96-9
• "Leiko Ikemura: Sculpture, painting, drawing" authors: Hans-Jürgen Schwalm, Wilfried Dickhoff, Britta E. Buhlmann, Elisabeth Bronfen, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen ISBN 3-929040-81-6
• "beyond the horizon" de, en, jap, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art; T. Kitagawa, editors: Fölbach, Dietmar ISBN 3-934795-50-1
• "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 3-89322-803-9
• "Alpenindianer" authors: Leiko Ikemura, Akira Tatehata, editor: Satani Gallery, Tokyo
• "Hundertundelf Haiku" authors: Matsuo Bashō, 22 drawings from Leiko Ikemura, editor: Amman Verlag, Zurich
• "Leiko Ikemura: Gemälde, Zeichnungen 1980–1987", authors: Dieter Koepplin, Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Basel) ISBN 3-7204-0053-0
• "Der stumme Schrei" authors: Kenzaburō Ōe, Leiko Ikemura, editor (Nobel Prize 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

• Official website
• Leiko Ikemura in the "open library"
• "Leiko Ikemura". kunstaspekte.de (in German). 20 September 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
• "Leiko Ikemura – Artist". ArtFacts. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
• "KOLUMBA :: Events :: 2005 Leiko Ikemura". KOLUMBA. Retrieved 29 January 2022.