LEIKO IKEMURA

Biography

1951

Born in Tsu Mie, Japan

1970 - 1972

Studied at the State University Osaka, Japan

1972 - 1973

Lived in Salamanca and Granada, Spain

1973 - 1978

Studied at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría, Sevilla, Spain

1981

Scholarship of the city Zurich, Switzerland. Art Price of the Kiefer-Hablitzel Stiftung, Bern, Switzerland

1982

Art Price Kaiserswerth, Dusseldorf, Germany. Foundation Prize for Graphic Art in Switzerland, ETH Zurich

1983 - 1984

Nuremberg city illustrator, Artist Residency of Faber-Castell and the city of Nuremberg, Germany

1988

Jury Prize, International Triennial of original graphic, Grenchen, Switzerland

1990 - 2015

Professorship at Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany

1996 - 1998

EKWC- European Ceramic Workcentre, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

2001

German Critics Prize, Berlin, Germany

2007

Art Price of Iserlohn, Community Foundation of the Sparkasse Iserlohn, Germany Artist in Residence, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, New Haven, CT, USA

2009

August-Macke-Preis, Curatorial team of August Macke and Hochsauerlandkreis Meschede, Germany

2013

JaDe-Price, Cologne, Germany

2014

Receives Cologne Fine Art Prize

Since 2014

Holds a professorship at Joshibi University of Art and Design, Kanagawa, Japan

2018

Nominated for Le Prix de Dessin de la Fondation pour l'art contemporain Daniel et Florence Guerlain

2020

70th 'Art Encouragement Prize of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Japan' for 2019

Since 1985

Lives and Works in Berlin and Cologne, Germany

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

"Leiko Ikemura: New Girls or les filles difficiles", Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Paris, France
"Leiko Ikemura: Mehr Licht!", Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Humboldtforum –Intervention, Berlin, Germany
"Wenn Pfauen Flügel öffnen", Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura. AQUÍ ESTAMOS. HERE WE ARE”, Puerto Banús, Marbella in conjunction with CIUTAT DE LES ARTS I LES CIÈNCIES, Valencia, Spain
“Leiko Ikemura - Riding the Waves", Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgien 

2021

"Aún más mañanas", CAB Burgos, Burgos, Spain
"Usagi Kannon", Casa Solleric & Parc de la Mar, Palma, Spain
"Usagi in Wonderland", Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England
"Before Thunder, After Dark", Building, Milan, Italy
"Aquí Estamos. Here We Are", Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciènces, Valencia, Spain
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Stiftung Reinbekhallen, Berlin, Germany

2020

"Von Ost nach Ost", Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany
"Pleasure Garden", Kewenig, Berlin, Germany "Usagi Kannon", Kewenig, Palma, Spain
"One Hundred Works", Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel, Switzerland

2019

"Leiko Ikemura. Nach neuen Meeren", Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
"Leiko Ikemura. Metamorphoses", Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden
"Leiko Ikemura. Our Planet. Earth & Stars", National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
"Leiko Ikemura. Der Schrei", Zionskirche, Berlin, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura. dass der Himmel so gross ist", Galerie Karsten Greve, St. Moritz, Switzerland

2018

"More Than Ever", Kewenig, Berlin, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura im Dialog mit Donata und Wim Wenders", Stiftung Brandenburger Tor / Liebermann Haus, Berlin, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura. Islands awake", Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Leiko Ikemura. Female Genesis", Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura. Not a Girl", Kenji Taki Gallery Nagoya, Nagoya, Japan

2017

"Leiko Ikemura", Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, United States
"After another world", ShugoArts, Tokyo, Japan "Leiko Ikemura. Women of Fire Dancing with Tree", Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne. Germany
"No No Noh. Leiko Ikemura im Dialog mit ausgewählten Werken der Sammlung Diethard Leopold", BE International Fine Art, Vienna, Austria
"Leiko Ikemura. Märchenwald, Deutsches Keramikmuseum Hetjens", Dusseldorf, Germany

2016

"Leiko Ikemura. Das unbekannte Archiv", DRK Klinikum Berlin Westend, Berlin
"Leiko Ikemura: Poetics of Form", Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, United States
"Leiko Ikemura. mindscape", Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
"Leiko Ikemura - Mountains in Exile", Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
"Leiko Ikemura und Paula Modersohn-Becker", Galerie Haas, Berlin, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura - ... and suddenly the wind turns", Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura", Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya Japan

2015

"Leiko Ikemura", Galerie Mirchandi + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India
"Leiko Ikemura. All about girls and tigers", Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, Germany
"Prelude. Ein Dialog mit Utagawa Hiroshige", Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany

2014

"Leiko Ikemura - Cologne Fine Art-Preisträgerin 2014", Cologne Fine Art Fair 2014, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura. Zwischenwelten. Zeichnungen – Gemälde - Skulpturen", Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura. Zarathoustra", Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montréal, Québec, Canada
"Leiko Ikemura & Odilon Redon", Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura: PIOON", The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Mishima, Japan
"Leiko Ikemura: Last und Lust", Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Nürnberg, Germany

2013

"Leiko Ikemura: Los Espantos", Galería Kewenig, Palma, Spain
"Leiko Ikemura. oro y plata", Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura. I-migration", Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura. Sueño de los árboles rojos", Poligrafa Obra Grafica, Barcelona, Spain
"Leiko Ikemura", Hilfiker Kunstprojekte, Lucerne, Switzerland

2012

"Leiko Ikemura. Silver flame", ShugoArts, Tokyo, Japan
"Korekara oder die Heiterkeit des fragilen Seins", Asian Art Museum - State museums Berlin, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura. Beyond the lake. Landschaften 2008-2012 und ein Bild von Ferdinand Hodler", Gallery Haas AG, Zurich, Switzerland
"Leiko Ikemura. Mare e Monti", KOLUMBA Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum, Cologne, Germany

2011

"Leiko Ikemura: Transfiguration", The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
"Prefectural Art Museum", Mie Tsu, Japan
"Wußtest du, ich habe zwei versteckte Flügel", Burg Wissem, Museum of Troisdorf, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura: Flame and Fire", Gallery Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura", Gallery Karsten Greve, Paris, France

2010

"Leiko Ikemura. Lichtbilder", Gundel Gelbert Showroom, Cologne, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura", August-Macke-Preis exhibition, Museum of Sauerland Arnsberg, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura / Philipp von Matt - Asuka", Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany
"Face scape", Gallery Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

2009

"ME ZA ME", ShugoArts, Tokyo, Japan
"Leiko Ikemura", Gallery Jirí Svestka, Prague, Czech Republic
"Leiko Ikemura. Face Scape", Gallery Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

2008

"Leiko Ikemura. Tag, Nacht, Halbmond", Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura", Gallery Haas & Fuchs, Berlin, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura", Gallery Karsten Greve, St. Moritz, Switzerland
"La Notte", Tony Wuethrich Gallery, Badel, Switzerland

2007

"Leiko Ikemura", Iserlohner Kunstpreis, Villa Wessel, Iserlohn, Germany
"Zwischenräume", Leiko Ikemura und Günther Förg, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura", Neue Arbeiten, Gallery Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

2006

"Leiko Ikemura. u mi no ko", The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Mishima, Japan
"Pacific", ShugoArts, Tokyo, Japan
"Andalusienbilder", Art Association of Bonn, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura", The Bill Lowe Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA, United States

2005

"Leiko Ikemura. Sculptures, Paintings, Works on Paper", Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum, Cologne, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura – remember Little boys", Gallery Haas & Fuchs, Berlin, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura. Mars Mother, Art-Station St. Peter", Cologne, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura", Gallery Karsten Greve, Paris, France
"Leiko Ikemura. Skulptur-Malerei-Zeichnung", Ulmer Museum, Germany

2004

"Madre Mare", ShugoArts, Tokyo, Japan
"Isola", Gallery HAM, Nagoya, Japan
"Leiko Ikemura. Beach Side Story", Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura. Skulptur-Malerei-Zeichnung", Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany
"beach girls", Tony Wuethrich Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
"Leiko Ikemura. Skulptur-Malerei-Zeichnung", Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany

2003

"Madre Mare", Gallery Luis Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal

2002

"Ozean – ein Projekt", Museum of Art Lichtenstein, Vaduz
"Vom Ozean", Gallery Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura. Les années lumière – Lichtjahre", Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
"Leiko Ikemura", HAM + Rice Gallery by G2 / Gallery HAM + ShugoArts, Tokyo, Japan
"Leiko Ikemura", Galerie Tony Wuethrich, Basel, Switzerland
"Leiko Ikemura", Gallery Haas & Fuchs, Berlin, Germany

2000

"Beyond the horizon", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
"Le Rire Silencieux de Miko", Gallery Karsten Greve, Paris, France
"The memory of innocence", Morat-Institut, Freiburg, Germany
"mikomania", Gallery HAM, Nagoya, Japan

1999

"Leiko Ikemura. Von einem Punkt zu Licht und Raum. Photographie und Malerei", Haus der Kultur, Waldkraiburg, Germany
"Yet there is light on the horizon", Melbourne International Biennal, Japan Pavillon, Melbourne, Australia
"Leiko Ikemura. Migration. Sculpture and Paintings", The Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WIS, United States
"Leiko Ikemura. Yet there is light on the horizon", Gallery Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura. Skulpturen, Bilder und Arbeiten auf Papier", Galerie Pablo Staehli, Zurich, Switzerland
"Leiko Ikemura. Ceramics + Drawings", Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1998

"Did you know, I have two invisible wings", Van Laere Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Netherlands
"Réveil en couleur", Gallery Karsten Greve, Paris, France

1997

"Leiko Ikemura", Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY, United States
"Leiko Ikemura. Lichtgestalten", Cultural Forum Alte Post, Neuss, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura", Exhibition Society for Contemporary Art Zollverein, Essen, Germany

1996

"Leiko Ikemura", Gallery Karsten Greve, Milan, Italy
"Leiko Ikemura. fe-male fluidity", Fine Art Limited Hue-Williams, London, England
"Leiko Ikemura", Gallery Karsten Greve Paris, France

1995

"Leiko Ikemura. Tenshi-tachi no sumika", Gallery Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

1992

"Leiko Ikemura", Art Association of Salzburg, Austria "Leiko Ikemura", Johan Jonker Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands "Hase und Paprika", Gallery Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

1990

"Alpen Indianer", Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1989

"Leiko Ikemura. Gemälde, Zeichnungen 1980-1987", City Gallery Kunstverein Saarbrücken, Museum of Art Ulm, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura", Galerie Camille von Scholz, Brussels, Belgium

1988

"Leiko Ikemura. Von der Wirkung der Zeit", Kunstverein Lingen, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura. Gemälde, Zeichnungen 1980-1987", Musée Cantonal des BeauxArts, Lausanne, Switzerland, Wolfgang-Gurlitt-Museum Linz, Austria

1987

"Leiko Ikemura", Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura. Gemälde, Zeichnungen 1980-1987", Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland
"Leiko Ikemura. Bilder und Skulpturen", Forum Kunst, Rottweil, Germany

1985

"Leiko Ikemura", Kunsthalle Waaghaus, Winterhur, Switzerland

1984

"Leiko Ikemura. Neue Arbeiten", 4. Stadtzeichnerausstellung (Stadtzeichnerin von Nürnberg 1983), Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Germany
"Ancestors. Leiko Ikemura", Art Association in the St. Katharinen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

1983

"Leiko Ikemura", Bonner Kunstverein, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura. Neue Arbeiten", Gallery Tony Gerber, Bern, Switzerland

1982

"Leiko Ikemura", Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura", Galerie van Krimpen, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1981

"Leiko Ikemura", Städtisches Bodensee-Museum in cooperation with Galerie Bernd Lutze, Friedrichshafen, Germany
"Leiko Ikemura", Galerie Tony Gerber, Bern, Switzerland

1980

"Leiko Ikemura", Galerie Pablo Staehli, Zurich, Switzerland

1979

"Leiko Ikemura", Galerie Raegeboge, Luigi Kurmann, Lucerne, Switzerland

Selected group exhibitions

2022

"Horizonte", Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln, Cologne, Germany
"Museum Ludwig, Cologne – History of a Collection with Civic Commitments", The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
"A woman is a woman is a woman. A history of the Aargauer Kunsthaus' female artists", Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland.
"A General Collection – Animals of the Forest of Art", Menard Art Museum, Komaki, Japan
“Tokaido of ours – Charms of the landscapes with Mr. Fuji", Bernard Buffet Museum, Nagaizumu, Japan
BLANC DE BLANCS, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
Singer Laren Museum, BS Laren, The Netherlands  
Shandong Art Museum, Jinan, Shandong Province, China 
"Skulptur & Natur", Schlossgut Schwante, Skulpturen Park, Oberkräamer, Germany
"Sockelgeschichten", Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Switzerland
"MOMAT Collection", The National Museum Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
"Schnee fällt hinterm Berge / Snow falls behind the mountain", Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
"Daphne ohne Apoll. Verwandlungen von Richter bis Lassnig aus der Sammlung Klöcker", Kunst und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Rüsselsheim, Germany
“The Art of Life - Contemporary Art by Female Artists", Shandong Art Museum, Jinan, Shandong Province, China
"Schnee fällt hinterm Berge / Snow falls behind the mountain", Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
„Heute Nacht geträumt. Eine Ausstellung von Ruth Buchanan“, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
“TOUCH ME: Nudes from the Miettinen Collection", Kunstraum Potsdam, Potsdam , Germany

2021

"Body – Gesture – Space. Works from Hilti art Foundation", Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
“Everybody Needs a Rock. Seeing the world through the eyes and hands”, The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
"Papier im Raum – Spatial Paper”, Haus des Papiers, Berlin, Germany
"Becoming", Saint Joseph Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA, United States
"Schweizer Skulptur seit 1945", Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Amsterdam Sculpture Biennial, Artzuid, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Sculpture and Nature", Skulpturen Park Schloss Schwante, Oberkrämer, Germany
"Global Groove", Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
"Beuys + Girls + Ikemura", Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne, Germany
"Neue wilde Künstler*innen", Galerie Mueller, Basel, Switzerland
"Métamorphose-à-trois", Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany
"Vertrauliche Distanz. Fotografien von Barbara Niggl Radloff 1958–2010", Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany
"ROOM FOR ONE’S OWN / PART I", Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
"Matières en lumière. Sculptures de Rodin à Louise Bourgeois", Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
"Anniversary Collection Exhibition: VISION - Who is Making the Work - Existence/Non-Existence ofI",Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

2020

STOA169 (permanent installation), Polling, Germany
Collection of artists on color and form Vol.2 Leiko Ikemura, Toeko Tatsuno Iwaki
City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan Double-M, Double-X, Kerlin Galery, Dublin, Ireland
Human after all, Pincesshof National Museum of Ceramics, Netherlands
Köln Skulptur, Sculpture Park Cologne, Germany
Leiko Ikemura and Jean-Charles Blais, Zidoun Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg
"Sehnsucht 02 -Fotografien aus der Sammlung Michael Horbach", Michael Horbach Stiftung, Cologne, Germany

2019

"Für Christa. Christa Dichgans mit Freunden, Zeitgenossen und Verehrerinnen", CFA, Berlin, Germany
"Emancipation of Humanity. Focusing on Works by Female Artists", The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
"The Case of Hiroshima", Museum of the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
"Geheimnis der Dinge. Malstücke", Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
"Der Funke Gottes!Schatz + Wunderkammern", Bamberger Dözesanmuseum, Bamberg, Germany
"ShugoArts Show", Shugoarts, Tokyo, Japan
"Frieze Sculpture 2019", English Gardens, Regent's Park, London, England
"Blickachsen 12", Sculpture Biennale, Kurpark Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany
"20/20. A 20th Anniversary Survey", James Harris Gallery, Seattle, United States
Usagi Kannon II, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, Great Britain

2018

"Autofiktionen. Zeichnung der Gegenwart", Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
"Painting Still Alive", Center of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu - CoCA, Torun, Poland
"objects in mirror are closer than they appear", Kunstforum Solothurn, Switzerland
"The World on Paper - Sammlung Deutsche Bank", Museum PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, Germany
"INNEN_WELTEN. Schenkung Betty und Hartmut Raguse-Stauffer", "Geheimnis der Dinge. Malstücke", Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf, Germany
"OneHundred works", Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
"Winter Show", Galerie Karsten Greve, St. Mortz, Switzerland
"LICHTUNG. Landschaften von Leiko Ikemura - Katharina Jahnke - Sabine Moritz", Cologne Contemporary Art. Galerie Martina Kaiser, Cologne, Germany
"LEIKO IKEMURA UND CORSIN FONTANA", Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
"Redon and his World. Beyond Imagination", The Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan
"Portraits from the Miettinen Collection", Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
"Das Lied der Dinge. Stillleben im Wandel der Kunst", Sammlung Hurrle - Museum, Durlach, Germany
"Prix de dessin 2018 de la Fondation d'art contemporain Daniel et Florence Guerlain", Salon du Dessin, Palais Brongniart, Paris, France
The Collection of the Takamatsu Art Museum + In Spilling Light with Chuta Kimura, Takamatsu Art Museum, Shikoku, Japan
"Art on Paper", Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
"SUMMER SHOW", Galerie Karsten Greve, St. Moritz, Switzerland
"rooftop - playground", Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany
"Hinsehen. Reinhören", Kirche Hamburg, Germany

2017

"ShugoArts Show. From the 1980s to the 2010s", Shugoarts, Tokyo, Japan
"jung und wild. Die 1980er Jahre in München", Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich, Germany
"Ikemura & Nolde", Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop, Ostseebad Ahrenshoop, Germany
"BERLIINI >>> NASTOLA", Taarasti art centre, Nastola, Finnland
"Weather Report. About Weather Culture and Climate Science", Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany

2016

"BÜHNENREIF / 1. AKT (1900 - 2016)", Arp Museum, Remagen, Germany
"The Memory – it was waved. From the J collection", Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan
KölnSkulptur #8, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
"Painter of Poetry, Poet of Picture", Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan; Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan; Himeji City Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
"CERAMIX. Art et Céramique de Rodin à Schütte", Sèvres - Cité de la céramique, Sèvres; La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
"Beyond Documentation", Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
"Donations - Florence & Daniel Guerlain", KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark
"Leiko Ikemura & Paula Modesohn Becker", Gallery Weekend Berlin, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
"Das Sichtbare und das Unsichtbare", Sein. Antlitz. Körper - Kirchen öffnen sich der Kunst, Berlin Cathedral Church, Germany
"MOMAT Collection", The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
"Verborgenes - Bestandsprobe III", Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany
"All living things", Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
"Kumo no ito", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

2015

"Ceramix – Ceramic art from Gauguin to Schütte", Bonnefantemuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands
"Painter of Poetry, Poet of the Picture", Hiratsuka City Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
"20. Triennale Grenchen 2015", Ausstellungshalle Grenchen, Switzerland
"Tiere schauen", Hegenbarth Collection Berlin, Germany
"BEYOND HORIZON", Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
"Objectif Terre - 18e Biennale internationale de Céramique de Châteauroux", Couvent des Cordeliers & Musées Châteauroux, France
"Koelnskulptur #8", Skulpturenpark Köln, Germany
"Ein Gipfeltreffen der Druckgraphik", John Schmid Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
"MOMAT Collection", The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
"Schön, Euch zu sehen. 160 Werke aus der Sammlung", Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
"playing by heart", KOLUMBA Kunstmuseum des Erzbistum Köln, Cologne
"Der rote Faden. Ordnungen des Erzählens", KOLUMBA Kunstmuseum des Erzbistum Köln, Cologne

2014

"Wild Heart: Art Exhibition of German Neo-Expressionism Since 1960s", China Art Museum, Shanghai
"JapanArtToday", Kunsthaus Interlaken, Switzerland
"Esprit d’une collection – Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain", Musée des BeauxArts Libourne, France
"Macht. Wahn. Vision. Rapunzel & Co. Von Türmen und Menschen in der Kunst", Arp Museum, Remagen, Germany

2013

"Von Japonismus zu Zen. Paul Klee und der Ferne Osten", Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland; Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne, Germany
"Gebrannte Erde", Gerisch-Stiftung Neumünster, Germany
"Art in Berlin 1945 until now", Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Modern Art Berlin, Germany
"Painting Forever! Keilrahmen", Kunst-Werke Berlin - KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

2012

"Beyond Memory", Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
"Innovationen in der Kunst der Schweiz", Kunsthaus Interlaken, Switzerland
"DOKI DOKI", Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan
"Art as Magic", Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan

2011

"Rising with the sun", Museum of Art Lichtenstein, Vaduz
"Fukushima and the consequences", KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
"Mit Feuer und Flamme", Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany

2010

"Plastic Artists and their Grafic Work", Museum of Art Lichtenstein, Vaduz
"Innocence – Art towards Live", Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan
"Noli me tangere!", KOLUMBA Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum, Cologne, Germany
"Expanding Art", Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan
"Japanese Art 1950-2010", The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
"Asuka. Leiko Ikemura / Philipp von Matt", Loock Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2009

"Lying, Standing and Leaning", The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
"100 Jahre Hetjens-Museum. Faszination des Fremden: China-Japan-Europa", Hetjens-Museum, Dusseldorf, Germany
"Emotional Drawing", SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

2008

"A Perspective on Contemporary Art 6: Emotional Drawing", The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
"Inner Light", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
"Spot on 02": Die Würde des Körpers. Bilder und Skulpturen aus der Sammlung Hanck, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany

2007

"Fiction for the Real", The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
"Zwischenräume. Leiko Ikemura & Günther Förg", Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
"Der unendliche Raum dehnt sich aus", KOLUMBA Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum, Cologne, Germany

2006

"Berlin-Tokio – Tokio-Berlin", New National Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2005

"Life actually", MOT Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
"The World is A Stage. Stories Behind Pictures", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"Asian Potential. Art Nursed by Sea and Islands", Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan

2004

1. Biennale der Zeichnung, Art Association Eislingen, Germany

2003

"Himmelschwer – Transformationen der Schwerkraft", Landesmuseum Johanneum & Minoriten Kultur, Graz, Austria

2002

"Dasein – Existence", Museum of Art Liechtenstein, Vaduz "Bella Vista", Kunst Meran, Italy

2001

"Kabinett der Zeichnung", Art Collection Chemnitz, Art Association of Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
"VISION", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
"Terra! Terra!" CESAC, Centro Sperimentale d’Arte, Caraglio, Italy

2000

"Visage", National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

1999

"Why make prints", Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City, Mexico, Museo de la Estampa y del Dieño Caracas, Venezuela, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin, Colombia, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contempraneo, San José, Cosa Rica
"Noontime Meditation", Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
KölnSkulptur 2, Sculpture Park of Cologne, Germany

1998

"Im Reich der Zeichnung", Aargauer Kusnthaus, Aarau, Kunstmuseum Chur, Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Museo Villa dei Cedri, Bellizona, Switzerland

1997

"A new expression of the earth", Luis Seoane Foundation, Coruña, Spain

1996

"Intangible Childhood", Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan
"Female Identity", The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan

1995

"Identités et Affinités", Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland

1994

"Hautevolée", Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art, Dresden, Germany
"KARADA ART", Itabashi Art Museum , Tokyo, Japan

1993

"Romantik in der Kunst der Gegenwart. Die Sammlung Murken", Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Kulturzentrum Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany
"Geschichte", Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland

1992

"Ankunft", KW Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany
Adam and Eve, The Museum of Modern Art Saitama, Japan

1991

"Double Take", Soho Art House. New York, NY, United States

1990

"Color and / or Monochrome", The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
"Blau – Farbe der Ferne", Art Association of Heidelberg, Germany
"Art and Vision. From Japanese Modern Art", Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan

1989

"Das Verhältnis der Geschlechter", Art Association of Bonn, Germany 4. Triennale der Kleinplastik, Schwabenlandhalle, Fellbach, Germany
"A Perspective of Contemporary Art. Color and / or Monochrome", The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

1988

"Hara Annual VIII", Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Tokio Biennale ’88, Seibu-Museum of Art, Funabashi, Japan
"Made in Köln", DuMont Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany

1987

Shiga Annual ’87, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
"Hacen lo que Quieren. Arte joven renano", Museo de Arte Sevilla, Spain
"Stiller Nachmittag", Art House of Zurich, Switzerland

1986

"Räume heutiger Zeichnung", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Vom Zeichnen. Aspekte der Zeichnung 1960-1985", Art Association of Kassel, Germany, Museum of Modern Art Vienna, Austria

1985

"Kunst mit Eigen-Sinn", Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria
"Märchen, Mythen, Monster", Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
"Japanische Malerei im westlichen Stil", Museum of East Asian, Cologne, Germany
"Räume heutiger Zeichnung", Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany

1984

"Sun and Steel", Serra di Felice Gallery, New York, NY, United States

1983

1ère Triennale Le Landeron ’83, Le Landeron, Switzerland
"Aktuell ’83", Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

1982

"Künstler aus der Schweiz - 10 Situationen", Institut für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, Germany
"aktuell 83", Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
2. Internationale Jugendtriennale der Zeichnung, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Germany and Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Albertinum - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, Germany
DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Germany
European Ceramic Work Centre, Oisterwijk, Netherlands
Fondation Daniel et Florence Guerlain, Paris, France
Fondazione Galleria Gottardo, Lugano, Switzerland
Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan
Gerisch Skulpturenpark, Neumünster, Germany
Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Japan
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Hilti Art Foundation, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan
K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Kolumba – Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums Köln, Cologne, Germany
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Kunstsammlung der Mobiliar Genossenschaft, Bern, Switzerland
Kunstsammlung Faber-Castell, Nuremberg, Germany
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
MACS - Musée des Arts Contemporains de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Grand-Hornu, Belgium
MASI Lugano - Museo d’Arte della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
Menard Art Museum, Komaki, Japan
Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan
MOMAT - National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
MPK - Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Murken Collection, Münster, Germany
Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland Museum am Dom, Würzburg, Germany
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany
Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen, Germany
Neues Museum - Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, United States
NMOA - National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Oita City Art Museum, Oita, Japan
Sammlung der Bank Leu, Zurich, Switzerland
Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin, Germany
Sammlung Zeitgenössische Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Berlin, Germany
Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
SLUMA - Saint Louis University Museum of Art, Saint Louis, MO, United States
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Takamatsu Art Museum, Takamatsu, Japan
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany
Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan