Leiko Ikemura Born in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Leiko Ikemura's works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions worldwide since the early 1980s, including a solo show at our gallery in Zahnradstrasse which opened at the end of August 2024. Most recently, the Heredium Museum, Daejeon, South Korea is showing until August 4th, 2024, the solo show Leiko Ikemura: Light on the Horizon. Further solo exhibitions were presented in the following institutions (selection): Museo de Arte Zapopan, Guadalajara (2023); Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin (2023); Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (2022); CAC La Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències Valencia (2022); Usagi in Wonderland at Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, Norwich (2021); Centro de Arte Caja Burgos (2021); Kunsthalle Rostock (2020); St. Matthäuskirche, Berlin (2020); Kunstmuseum Basel (2019); Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn (2019); The National Art Center, Tokyo (2019); Deutsches Keramikmuseum Hetjens, Dusseldorf (2017); Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (2016); Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne (2015); The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Mishima (2014); Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (2013); Asian Art Museum, Berlin (2012) and The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2011). 

Most recently, Leiko Ikemura has been involved in group exhibitions at Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2023); Villa Jacobs Skulpturenpark und Maschinenhaus, Potsdam (2023); The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; (2022-23); 9th Beijing Biennale National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China (2022); Singer Laren Museum, The Netherlands (2022); The National Art Center, Tokyo (2022), Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Köln (2022); AMMA Foundation, Mexico City (2022); The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2022); Shandong Art Museum, Jinan (2022); Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland, (2022); Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland (2022); Shandong Art Museum, Jinan, Shandong Province, China (2022); Hekinan City Tatsukichi Fujii Museum of Contemporary Art, Hekinan-shi (2021); Hilti Art Foundation im Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein (2021-22); The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2021);  ARTZUID 2021, Amsterdam Sculptuur Biënnale, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2021); Shiga Museum of Art, Otsu, Japan (2021;  Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (2021); Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi (2021); Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (2021), National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden (2020-21); Oita Prefectural Art Museum, Oita, Japan (2020); Blickachsen 12, Sculpture Biennale, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany (2019); and Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem (2019), among others.