Leiko Ikemura / イケムラレイコ lives and works in Berlin and Cologne, Germany
2014 - today Professor at the Joshibi University of Art and Design, Kanagawa, Japan
1991 - 2015: Professor for painting at the Berlin University of the Arts, Germany
1973 - 1978: Scuela Superior de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungaria, Sevilla, Spain
1970 - 1972: Studies at the University of Osaka from in Osaka, Japan
born in Tsu, Mie-ken, Japan
| 2010 | "日本美術 1950–2010 / Japanese Art 1950–2010" |
| 27. 11. 2010 - 20. 02. 2011, The National Museum of Art, Osaka | |
| "Expanding Art - Introduction to the Contemporary Art" | |
| 23. 10. 2010 - 19. 12. 2010, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan | |
| "Noli me tangere! Berühre mich nicht / Halte mich nicht fest" | |
| 15. 09. 2010 - 31. 07. 2011, Kolumba Museum Cologne, Germany | |
| "Geheimnisvolle Zwischenwelten" | |
| 08. 12. 2010 – 27. 02. 2011, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany | |
| "Asuka 飛鳥. Leiko Ikemura / Philipp von Matt" | |
| 24. 09. 2010 - 23. 10. 2010, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany | |
| "We are the islands" | |
| 25. 07. 2010 - 27. 07. 2010, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, Germany | |
| "Plastic Artists and their Grafic Work" | |
| 06. 07. 2010 - 03. 10. 2010, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein | |
| "Collection Exhibition Second Term" | |
| 07. 07. 2010 - 23. 09. 2010, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan | |
| "Innocence - Art towards Live" | |
| 18. 07. 2010 - 20. 09. 2010, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan | |
| "Die Leichtigkeit des Seins - Zeichnungen aus 40 Jahren Galerie" | |
| 20. 06. 2010 - 31. 08. 2010, Dany Keller Galerie, Eichelhardt, Germany | |
| "Edition 5 Erstfeld" | |
| 12. 06. 2010 - 22. 08. 2010, Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf, Switzerland | |
| "Leiko Ikemura. August Macke Prize Laureate", solo | |
| 06. 06. 2010 - 27. 08. 2010, Sauerland-Museum, Arnsberg, Germany | |
| "Noir" | |
| 10. 05 2010 - 10. 07. 2010, Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel, Switzerland | |
| "INDIVIDUANIMAL" | |
| 29. 04. 2010 - 05. 06. 2010, Beck & Eggeling, New Quarters, Duesseldorf, Germany | |
| "VON MIR AUS" | |
| 23. 04. 2010 - 30. 06. 2010, Salon Schmitz, Cologne, Germany | |
| "Art of Modern Japan" | |
| 20. 04. 2010 - 08. 08. 2010, The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Japan | |
| "Leiko Ikemura. Lichtbilder" | |
| 19. 04. 2010 – 24. 05. 2010, Gundel Gelbert Showroom, Cologne, Germany | |
| "Collection Exhibition First Term" | |
| 10. 04. 2010 - 13. 06. 2010, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan | |
| "Resonance" | |
| 03. 04. 2010 - 20. 06. 2010, Suntory Museum Tempozan, Osaka, Japan | |
| "Schweizer Kunst im Aufbruch - Die Neuen Wilden" | |
| 03. 04. 2010 - 20. 06. 2010, KUNST(ZEUG)HAUS, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland | |
| "this is red" Leiko Ikemura UdK Class shows in Cologne | |
| 05. 03. 2010 - 28. 03. 2010 HALLE ZEHN / CAP-Cologne, Germany | |
| "Nippon Oil Painting" | |
| 24. 01. 2010 - 22. 03. 2010, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan | |
| 2009 | "Leiko Ikemura. Face Scape.", solo |
| 18. 12. 2009 - 06. 02. 2010, Galerie Karsten Greve, Koeln / Cologne, Germany | |
| "Contemporary Czech and International Gallery Artists" | |
| December 3 - January 7, 2010, Jiri Svestka Prague, Czech Republic | |
| "Perspectives of Contemporary Painting: 12 Horizons" | |
| 08. 12. 2009 - 22. 03. 2010, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | |
| "100 Jahre Hetjens-Museum. Faszination des Fremden: China - Japan - Europa" | |
| 01. 11. 2009 - 24. 01. 2010, Hetjens-Museum, Duesseldorf, Germany | |
| "Sammlung Veronika und Peter Monauni" | |
| 06. 11. 2009 - 21. 02. 2010, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz LI | |
| "Leiko Ikemura. Mezame", solo | |
| 10. 10. 2009 - 21. 11. 2009, Shugoarts, Tokio, Japan | |
| "What a wonderful world" | |
| 10. 10. 2009 - 27. 12. 2009, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan | |
| "Interdepended echoes" | |
| 13. 09. 2009 - 25. 12. 2009, The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Mishima, Japan | |
| "Collection Exhibition Second Term" | |
| 07. 07. 2009 - 23. 9. 2009, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan | |
| "Laufen Sie meine Damen, ein Mann ist im Rosengarten" | |
| 03. 07. 2009 - 30. 11. 2009, Kuenstlerinnen; Die Sammlung Ulla Pietzsch | |
| "Lying, Standing and Leaning" | |
| 13. 06. 2009 - 23. 09. 2009, The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Japan | |
| "Leiko Ikemura", solo | |
| 06. 05. 2009 - 13. 06. 2009, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic | |
| "KoelnSkulptur 5" | |
| 19. 04. 2009 - april 2011, Skulpturenpark Koeln, Cologne, Germany | |
| "Pflanzenstudien von Karl Blossfeldt und verwandte Positionen" | |
| 13. 03. 2009 - 07. 06. 2009, SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany | |
| "Der Blick" | |
| 05. 03. 2009 - 15. 06. 2009, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein | |
| "Emotional Drawing" | |
| 19. 02. 2009 - 19. 04. 2009, SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea | |
| "Home" | |
| 06. 01. 2009 - 29. 03. 2009, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan | |
| 2008 | "L. Ikemura u.a." |
| 12. 12. 2008 - 09. 02. 2009, Galerie Haas AG, Zürich | |
| "Die Wuerde des Koerpers. Bilder und Skulpturen aus der Sammlung Hanck" | |
| 29. 11. 2008 - 10. 05. 2009, Museum Kunst Palast, "spot on 02", Duesseldorf, Germany | |
| "Emotional Drawings" | |
| 18. 11. 2008 - 21. 12. 2008, National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, MOMAK, Japan | |
| "Leiko Ikemura", solo | |
| 31. 10. 2008 - 19. 12. 2008, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin, Germany | |
| "Anatomie - les peaux du dessin - collection Florence et Daniel Guerlain", Frac Picardie | |
| 10. 10. 2008 - 17. 01. 2009, Fonds régional d'art contemporain, Amiens, France | |
| "Inner Light" | |
| 30. 09. 2008 - 25. 12. 2008, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan | |
| "La Notte", solo | |
| 05. 09. 2008 - 25. 10.2008, Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel, Switzerland | |
| "Leiko Ikemura, Galerie Haas & Fuchs" | |
| 05. 09. 2008 - 07. 09. 2008, "abc Art Berlin Contemporary", Berlin, Germany | |
| "Leiko Ikemura. Day, Night, Halfmoon", solo | |
| 31. 08. 2008 - 31. 12. 2008, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland | |
| "A Perspective on Contemporary Art 6: Emotional Drawing" | |
| 26. 08. 2008 - 13. 10. 2008, MOMAT The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan | |
| "Leiko Ikemura", solo | |
| 23. 08. 2008 - 27. 09. 2008, Galerie Karsten Greve, St. Moritz, Switzerland | |
| "Summer of Contemporary Art" | |
| 29. 07. 2008 - 07. 09. 2008, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan | |
| "Expedit 04" | |
| 29. 07. 2008 - 31. 08. 2008, Werkstadt Graz, Austria | |
| "HandHaben" | |
| 12. 06. 2008 - 22. 06. 2008, Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel, Germany | |
| "Leiko Ikemura, Nur 1 Bild", solo | |
| 10. 06. 2008 - 10. 07. 2008, Dany Keller Galerie, Munich, Germany | |
| "O Fascinio de Ulisses. Part 2" | |
| 10. 05. 2008 - 14. 05. 2008, Galeria Luis Serpa Projectos, Lisbon, Portugal | |
| "Zeichnungen aus dem Karl August Burckhardt-Koechlin-Fonds" | |
| 26. 01. 2008 – 06. 04. 2008, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland | |
| 2007 | "Inner Light" |
| 25. 12. 2007 - 30. 09. 2008, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan | |
| "...und immer fehlt mir was, und das quält mich" | |
| 07. 12. 2007 - 13. 01. 2008, Werkstadt Graz, Austria | |
| "Neu kombiniert" | |
| 01. 12. 2007 - 27. 01. 2008, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany | |
| "Leiko Ikemura, Iserlohner Kunstpreis", solo | |
| 17. 11. 2007 - 13. 01. 2008, Kunstverein Villa Wessel, Iserlohn, Germany | |
| "Karl Fritsch - Schmuck, Kunst im kleinen Fomat" | |
| 28. 10. 2007 - 09. 12. 2007, Overbeck-Gesellschaft Luebeck, Germany | |
| "Du Nord. Collections du XVe siècle à nos jours" | |
| 19. 10. 2007 - 06. 01. 2008, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland | |
| "Rubin - Institut fuer moderne Kunst Nuernberg 1967 - 2007" | |
| 17. 10. 2007 - 18. 11. 2008, Staatliches Museum fuer Kunst und Design in Nuernberg | |
| "Modern and contemporary art - especially portrait" | |
| 02. 10. 2007 - 24. 12. 2007, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan | |
| "Der unendliche Raum dehnt sich aus" | |
| 15. 09. 2007 – 15. 03. 2008, KOLUMBA archbishopric museum of art, Cologne, Germany | |
| "Niveaualarm" | |
| 20. 07. 2007 - 04. 08. 2007, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria | |
| "Leiko Ikemura und ihre Meisterschueler" | |
| 15. 07. 2007 – 19. 08. 2007, Kunstverein Baden-Baden, Germany | |
| "Zeichnungen" | |
| 24. 07. 2007 - 08. 09. 2007, Dany Keller Galerie, Munich, Germany | |
| "Black & White" | |
| 07. 06. 2007 - 26. 08. 2007, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria | |
| "Arbeiten auf Papier - Künstler der Galerie Haas & Fuchs" | |
| 01. 07. 2007 - 27. 09. 2007, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin Germany | |
| "The Spaces Between" mit Guenther Foerg | |
| 24. 06. 2007 - 11. 11. 2007, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany | |
| "Fiction for the Real" | |
| 10. 03. 2007 – 27. 05. 2007, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokio, Japan | |
| "new works", solo | |
| 19. 04. 2007 - 26. 05. 2007, Galerie Karsten Greve, Koeln / Cologne, Germany | |
| "30" | |
| 14. 04. 2007 - 19. 04. 2007, Galerie Thoman, Innsbruck, Austria | |
| "Power Women" | |
| 03. 04. 2007 - 01. 07. 2007, Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan | |
| "KoelnSkulptur 4" | |
| 01. 04. 2007 - 01. 04. 2009, Skulpturenpark Koeln, Cologne, Germany | |
| 2006 | "Sammelsurium II (1982 bis 1993) Mitglieder des Kunstvereins sammeln" |
| 17. 12. 2006 - 11. 02. 2007, Forum Kunst Rottweil, Germany | |
| "Chère Louise" | |
| 06. 12. 2006 - 20. 01. 2007, Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Ascona, Switzerland | |
| Ich ergoetze mich am Bunten, Ich erquicke mich im Blau | |
| 03. 12. 2006 - 14. 01. 2007 Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany | |
| "Hope + Despair" 20 Jahre Edition Cestio | |
| 02. 12. 2006 - 14. 01. 2007, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland | |
| "Gast Auswahl 06" | |
| 02. 12. 2006 - 07. 01. 2007, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland | |
| "Be all eyes" | |
| 28. 11. 2006 – 25. 02. 2007, Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel, Switzerland | |
| "Human Form in Clay - the Minds Eye" | |
| 03. 11. 2006 - 08. 01. 2007, The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Japan | |
| "Leiko Ikemura – Gunter Damisch" Doppelausstellung | |
| 22. 10. 2006 – 02. 12. 2006, Galerie Thoman, Innsbruck, Austria | |
| "Leiko Ikemura. Pacific", solo | |
| 26. 09. 2006 - 04. 11. 2006, Shugoarts, Tokio, Japan | |
| "u mi no ko", solo | |
| 23. 09. 2006 - 19. 12. 2006, The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Mishima, Japan | |
| "Aus Erde geschaffen. Positionen zeitgenoessischer figuraler Plastik aus Ton" | |
| 21. 07. 2006 - 24. 09. 2006, Stadtmuseum im Spital Crailsheim, Germany | |
| "1996-2006: 10 ans d'acquisitions, de dons et de legs." | |
| 11. 07. 2006 - 10. 09. 2006, Musée cantonal des beaux-arts, Lausanne, Switzerland | |
| "ARBEITEN AUF PAPIER" | |
| 01. 07. 2006 - 27. 09. 2006, GALERIE HAAS & FUCHS | |
| "EIN GEMEINSAMER ORT. SKULPTUREN, PLASTIKEN, OBJEKTE" | |
| 24. 06. 2006 - 05. 11. 2006, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria | |
| "Transformation" | |
| 09. 06. 2006 - 01. 10. 2006, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein | |
| "Berlin – Tokyo Tokyo – Berlin" | |
| 07. 06. 2006 – 03. 10. 2006, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany | |
| "Andalusienbilder", solo | |
| 02. 06. 2006 - 25. 06. 2006, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany | |
| "Leiko Ikemura", solo | |
| 26. 05. 2006 - 09. 07. 2006, The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, USA | |
| "The Child" | |
| 14. 04. 2006 – 18. 06. 2006, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan | |
| "Reisen mit der Kunst - Stiftung Kunst Heute" | |
| 12. 04. 2006 - 18. 06. 2006, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland | |
| "Psycho" | |
| 09. 04. 2006 - 07. 05. 2006, MMIII Kunstverein Moenchengladbach | |
| "Human Form in Clay - the Minds Eye" | |
| 18. 03. 2006 - 25. 06. 2006, Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Arts, Shigaraki, Japan | |
| "Modern Japanese Art from the Museum Collection" | |
| 11. 03. 2006. - 21. 5. 2006, MOMAT The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan | |
| "Die obere Haelfte" | |
| 29. 01. 2006 - 16. 04. 2006, Museum Liner, Appenzell, Switzerland | |
| "Nouvelles Collections" | |
| 22. 01. 2006 - 19. 03. 2006, Kunsthaus Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland | |
| "10th Anniversary Show: VISION II: 1995-2005 Collection of the Museum | |
| 08. 01. 2006 - 02. 04. 2006, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan | |
| 2005 | "from east and west" |
| 21. 12. 2005 - 04. 02. 2006, Shugoarts, Tokyo, Japan | |
| "Aqua Reell" | |
| 12. 11. 2005 - 07. 01. 2006, Galerie Roemerapotheke, Zuerich, Switzerland | |
| "Ausstellung der Professoren der Universitaet der Kuenste" | |
| 22. 10. 2005 – 24. 01. 2006, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany | |
| "Die obere Haelfte" | |
| 22. 10. 2005 - 15. 01. 2006, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany | |
| "Leiko Ikemura. Sculptures, Paintings, Works on Paper", solo | |
| 21. 10. 2005 - 22. 02. 2006, KOLUMBA archbishopric museum of art, Cologne, Germany | |
| "Leiko Ikemura. Remember Little Boys", solo | |
| 30. 09. 2005 - 07. 11. 2005, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin, Germany | |
| "Modern Art from the Museum Collection" | |
| 26. 07. 2005 - 02. 10. 2005, MOMAT, The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Japan | |
| "Die obere Haelfte" | |
| 09. 07. 2005 - 09. 10. 2005, Staedtische Museen Heilbronn, Germany | |
| "Leiko Ikemura. Mars Mother", solo | |
| 01. 07. 2005 - 25. 09. 2005, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Koeln, Germany | |
| "The Subjective Figure" | |
| 21. 06. 2005 – 29. 07. 2005, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA | |
| "Hands on Spirit" | |
| 11. 06. 2005 - 30. 07. 2005, Gallery HAM, Nagoya, Japan | |
| "Asian Potential. Art nursed by Sea and Islands" | |
| 24. 05. 2005 - 10. 07. 2005, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan | |
| "Leiko Ikemura", solo | |
| 20. 05. 2005 - 31. 08. 2005, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France | |
| "The World is A Stage. Stories Behind Pictures" | |
| 29. 03. 2005 – 19. 06. 2005, Mori Art Museum, Tokio, Japan | |
| "Der Kunst ihre Raeume" | |
| 25. 03. 2005 - 13. 04. 2005, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany | |
| "Weltinnenraeume - Die Sammlung Hanck" | |
| 10. 03. 2005 - 07. 04. 2005, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Christliche Kunst, Munich | |
| "earlier works" | |
| 01. 03. 2005 – 31. 03. 2005, ShugoartS, Tokyo, Japan | |
| "Leiko Ikemura, Skulptur-Malerei-Zeichnung", solo | |
| 13. 02. 2005 - 24. 04. 2005, Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany | |
| "...in Bewegung. Malerei aus der Sammlung Murken" | |
| 12. 02. 2005 – 05. 02. 2005, Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany | |
| "MANGA! Angriff japanischer Comics auf die Kunst" | |
| 11. 02. 2005 - 01. 05. 2005, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren | |
| "Life actually" | |
| 15. 01. 2005 – 21. 03. 2005, MOT Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokio, Japan | |
| "[RE]VISITAÇÕES_a partir de Pontormo" | |
| 15. 01. 2005 - 05. 03. 2005, Galeria Luis Serpa Projectos, Lisbon, Portugal |