Leiko Ikemura

Leiko Ikemura (b. in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan / lives and works in Berlin and Cologne) studied at the State University of Osaka from 1970 to 1972, and the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría, Sevilla, from 1973 to 1978. Professor at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, from 1990 to 2016, and at the Joshibi University of Art and Design in Kanagawa since 2014. Recent exhibitions include: Leiko Ikemura im Dialog mit Donata und Wim Wenders, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor / Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin, 2018; and solo presentations at the National Art Center, Tokyo, 2019; the Kunstmuseum Basel, 2019; and the Kunsthalle Rostock, 2020.