Solo Exhibition

With Floating Spheres, the Kunsthalle Emden is presenting the Japanese-Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura (born 1951 in Japan). The show brings together 76 works that offer a cross-section of her multifaceted oeuvre - from painting and graphic art to photography, video and sculpture. The works span an arc from the 1980s to the present day. This exhibition is less of a classic retrospective and more of a “symphony” of Ikemura's themes and motifs, staged in an exhibition architecture designed by the renowned architect Philipp von Matt, Ikemura's husband.

The internationally renowned artist Leiko Ikemura has created an unmistakable oeuvre since the 1980s. While her early works were characterized by radical expression, she later devoted herself to a more delicate, poetic visual language. She opens up a fascinating cosmos to the viewer, consisting of plants, animals, landscapes and depictions of the human face. Ikemura combines Asian and European art traditions and creates a unique pictorial world. Classic European themes such as landscapes, portraits and still lifes meet Japanese pictorial principles in the form of allusion, incompleteness and asymmetry. Hermaphroditic beings and creatures refer to the world of Japanese fairy tales and legends and make the invisible visible.

With Floating Spheres, Ikemura's extraordinary work can be experienced in an exhibition that transcends the boundaries between the arts and opens up new perspectives on space, form and light.

Kunsthalle Emden
Hinter dem Rahmen 13
26721 Emden

Leiko Ikemura. Floating Spheres