イケムラ・レイコ
(現代美術家、ベルリン芸術大学教授、2012ゲスト・アーティスト、ドイツ在住)
Leiko Ikemura
(Painter and Sculptor, Professor Berlin University of the Art, Guest Artist 2012,Living in Germanys)

三重県津市生まれ。1970年-1972年に大阪外国語大学でスペイン語を学んだ後、スペインに渡ってセビリア美術大学に留学。1979年にスイス、1983年にドイツに移住。現在はベルリンとケルンに拠点を置き、1991年よりベルリン芸術大学教授。2009年にアウグスト・マッケ賞受賞。2011-12年に東京国立近代美術館と三重県立近代美術館、2014年にヴァンジ彫刻庭園美術館で作品展開催。

1980年代よりテラコッタの造形を手がけて、動物と人間を合わせた複合的な生き物や、器を思い起こす空洞のスカート姿の少女を製作している。2012年に高さ3.40メートル、上半身がウサギで下半身が寺院の「ウサギ観音」シリーズを発表。

Born in Tsu, Mie Prefecture. After studying Spanish at Osaka University of Foreign Studies from 1970 to 1972, Ikemura moved to Spain, where she studied at the Royal Academie of Fine Arts. She moved to Switzerland in 1979 and then to Germany in 1983. Currentliy based in Berlin and Cologne, she has been professor at the Berlin University of the Arts since 1991. She was the recipient of the August Macke Prize in 2009. Recent solo exhibitions of her work have been held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Mie Prefectural Art Museum in 2011-12 and in the Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum in 2014.

She has been producing three-dimensional terracotta sculptures since the 1980s, for example composite beings, partly animal and partly human being or plant or lying girls in skirts, which are hollow and remind us on vessels. In 2012, the artist has created the „Usagi Kannon“-works, over 3,40 m high sculptures with the upper part of a hare and and a temple as lower part.