Leiko Ikemura

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Born in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Ikemura moved to Spain in 1973. There, she studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Saint Isabel of Hungary of Sevilla. She then moved to Switzerland before eventually settling in Germany. Currently based in Berlin and Cologne, she also works as a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. Major solo exhibitions of her work have been held at the Bonner Kunstverein (Germany) in 1983, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel in 1987-88, the Haggerty Museum of Art (Milwaukee, USA) in 1999, the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art in 2000, the Cantonal Museum of Fine Art, Lausanne (Switzerland) in 2001, the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in 2002, the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (Germany) in 2004, the Kolumba Art Museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne in 2005, the Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum (Mishima, Japan) in 2006, the Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen (Switzerland) in 2008, and the Sauerland-Museum (Arnsberg, Germany) in 2010.

The core of the artistic work of living in Germany, Switzerland and the Japanese Leiko Ikemura are her fabulous drawings. With them she creates a wide and idiosyncratic universe, alive with girlish nature, animals and things that are not anchored in the here and now. In most cases, they traverse a floating sphere beyond space and time. Ambivalence speaks of those moments that oscillate between light and darkness, pleasure and pain, and day dream. But always they mark an intense, if not tangible moment - perhaps the presence in the simple existence?

(Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen)

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