Since the beginning of her artistic career, Leiko Ikemura's work has been closely interwoven with her personal journey and the various stations in her life. Formative memories from her native Japan find as much resonance as the impressions from her early stays in Spain and Switzerland in the 1970’s and 80’s, which accompany her to this day.
Leiko Ikemura's works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions worldwide since the early 1980s and will have a solo exhibition in our gallery in Zahnradstrasse, opening 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.
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Leaning On The Eyes, 2024
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Nightscape, 2024
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Air, 2023
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Blue Mom, 2023
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Birds Mom, 2023
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Usagi Face, 2023
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Difficult Girl, 2022
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Why, 2022
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Dusk scape, 2022
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Velvet Girl, 2021/23
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Thoughts, 2021/22
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Double Figure, 2021
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Figure with three Birds, 2021
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Girl in Yellow, 2021
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Difficult Baby, 2021
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huihui, 2021
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Trees out of Head, 2021
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Kitsune, 2020
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Birth, 2020
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Yellow Scape, 2019
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Chica & Pink, 2019
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Chica & Miko, 2019
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Usagi Greeting (180), 2018/2019
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Something out of Head, 2017/23
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Trees out of Head, 2015/2020
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Zarathustra (small), 2014
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Usagi Girl, 2002/2020
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Leiko Ikemura
Cosmic MomGalerie Peter Kilchmann
Zahnradstrasse, Zurich
30 Aug - 12 Oct 2024Leiko Ikemura Cosmic Mom August 30 - October 12, 2024 Zahnradstrasse 21, Zurich Galerie Peter Kilchmann is delighted to announce our upcoming third solo exhibition featuring new works by the...Read more -
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Backstage EngelbergEngelberg (OW), Switzerland
23 Jun - 18 Aug 2024BACKSTAGE Engelberg A journey of discovery with 50 artists June 23 to August 18, 2024, Engelberg/OW The 'BACKSTAGE Engelberg' is an exhibition in predominantly hidden locations in the Alpine municipality...Read more -
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Light on the HorizonHeredium Museum, Daejon, South Korea
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The Other Side of the Mirror is HomeGalerie Peter Kilchmann
Zahnradstrasse, Zurich
1 Sep - 11 Oct 2023With works by Vlassis Caniaris, Willie Doherty, Beatriz González, Leiko Ikemura, Teresa Margolles, Dagoberto Rodríguez, Adrian Paci, Shirana Shahbazi in collaboration with Anne Morgenstern, Didier William and Artur Zmijewski.Read more -
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When Animals Become ArtFuerle Collection, Berlin, Germany
6 Jul 2023 - 7 Jan 2024The exhibition will symbolically bring into being an intimate and colourful nest, where precious animal sculptures, made of cast glass, glazed terracotta, patinated bronze or papier-mâché, will interact with small...Read more -
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Motion of LoveMuseum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands
24 Jun - 24 Sep 2023The exhibition takes its title from the artist’s experience that in essence we are all connected. Expanding on this sentiment, Leiko Ikemura creates her own universe, inhabited by girl- and...Read more -
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Year of the UsagiMAZ Museo de Arte Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico
4 Feb - 25 Jun 2023Year of the Usagi conjures up a fantastical world, reflecting the dynamism with which the many different forms expressed in her work cross biographical, geographical, cultural, and artistic boundaries. The...Read more -
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Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
21 Jan - 1 May 2023The exhibition is mainly dedicated to Ikemura’s sculptural work. The show features more than 30 sculptures and selected paintings and drawings since the 1990s, including numerous recent works. Her works...Read more -
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New Girls ou Les Filles DifficilesGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Paris
15 Oct 2022 - 14 Jan 2023Entitled New Girls ou Les Filles Difficiles, Ikemura's exhibition takes up her perhaps best-known series of Girls, which first appeared in her work in the mid-1990s and has since become...Read more -
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Here We AreCAC La Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Valencia, Spain
30 Sep 2022 - 27 Feb 2023The exhibition is located on the southern lake of the Hemisfèric, seeming to float on the waters, and its presence is amplified by the surroundings where the buildings of the...Read more -
30 Years Anniversary Exhibition
Galerie Peter Kilchmann
Rämistrasse, Zurich
3 Sep - 14 Oct 202230 Years Anniversary Exhibition Rita Ackermann (*1968 Budapest), Francis Alÿs (*1959 Antwerpen), Maja Bajevic (*1967 Sarajevo), Hernan Bas (*1978 Miami), Armin Boehm (*1972 Aachen), Marc Bauer (*1975 Genf), Monica Bonvicini...Read more -
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As Long as I’m WalkingSainsbury Art Center, Norwich, UK
18 Jul - 12 Dec 2021The exhibition explores the theme of nature and the connectivity of all forms of life, whether that be humans, animals, plants or minerals. There is both fragility and innocence in...Read more -
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Colours in MotionGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Rämistrasse, Zurich
19 Jun - 29 Jul 2021The exhibition will feature four groups of works that reflect and develop the artist's extensive œuvre in both its conceptual and technical versatility. Each one of the five exhibition spaces...Read more -
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Even more tomorrowsCentro de Arte Caja de Burgos CAB, Burgos, Spain
5 Mar - 30 May 2021They are hybrid forms, as the artist herself points out, in which the use of materials close to the earth - ceramics, bronzes, pigments - reinforce the representation of beings...Read more -
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Toward New SeasKunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
11 May - 1 Sep 2019The Japanese-Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura first caused a stir in Switzerland in the early 1980s with expressive and confrontational compositions that associated her with the Neue Wilde. She later rose...Read more -
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Our Planet - Earth and StarsThe National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
18 Jan - 1 Apr 2019The introspective world of her work – quiet, modest, and immersed deeply in its own distinctive vision – is in this sense keenly critical of the world and society surrounding...Read more
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Mein Weg mit der Kunst. Leiko Ikemura im Gespräch mit Noemi Smolik 2024 Read more -
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Our Planet Leiko Ikemura, 2019 Read more -
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Aún más mañanas Javier Del Campo, Viviana Kuri Haddad, Gonzalo Rodríguez Gómez, Mónica Álvarez Careaga, 2021 Read more -
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Motion of Love, 2023 2023 Read more -
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Wenn Pfauen Flügel öffnen, 2022 Texts by Leiko Ikemura, Brigitte Gerisch-Hölk and Anette HüschEdited by: Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung
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Año del usagi, 2023 Notes by: Leiko IkemuraEdited by: Viviana Kuri
Museo de Arte de Zapopan
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Witty Witches Poem by Leiko IkemuraTexts by Elisabeth Heymer, Udo Kittelmann and Kathleen Reinhardt
George Kolbe Museum
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Aquí Estamos, 2022 Texts by Kosme de BarañanCity of Arts and Sciences of Valencia, Spain
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Before Thunder, After Dark, 2021 Texts by: Fank Boehm, Quinn Latimer and Alessandro Rabottini Read more -
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In Praise of Light, 2020 Texts by Leiko Ikemura, Nicola Kuhn, Hannes Langbein, Friedhelm Mennekes SJ, Pia Müller-Tamm and Alexander OchsEdited by Hannes Langbein and Alexander Ochs
Stiftung St. Matthäus, Berlin
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Von Ost nach Ost, 2020 Interview with Leiko IkemuraTexts by Cornelia Blume and Uwe Neumann
Kunsthalle Rostock
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Portraits, 2020 Texts by Nils Emmerichs and Bera Nordal Read more -
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Paintings, 2019 Texts by Mayen Beckmann, Bibiana Beglau, Leiko Ikemura, Ivana Jeissing, Dalad Kambhu, Holger Liebs, Helge Malchow, Ayumi Paul, Wim Wenders Read more -
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Nach Neuen Meeren, 2019 Text by: Anita Hadelmann, Stefan Kraus, Mitsue NagayaKunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
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