AIKO TEZUKA
Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1976 Aiko Tezuka currently lives in Berlin, Germany. In 2001, Tezuka completed the Master’s Degree programme in Painting at Musashino Art University, Tokyo (studied under sculptor Toya Shigeo). In 2005, she completed a PhD in Painting at the Art Research Department of Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan (studied under painter Usami Keiji). From 2010 to 2011, lived and worked in London, UK, supported by the Gotoh Memorial Cultural Foundation. Then began to live in Berlin (2011), with the support of a fellowship from the Japanese Government’s Overseas Study Program for Artists. In 1997, embarked on a type of work that unravels ready-made fabric. Has continued to create new structural forms through referring to and editing historical objects, using unique methods of her own.
Recent exhibitions: The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Fukuoka Art Museum; The National Art Center, Tokyo; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art; Toyota Municipal Museum of Art; TextielMuseum (Netherlands); Johann Jacobs Museum (Switzerland); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea (Seoul, Korea); Ayala Museum (Philippines); Turner Contemporary (UK); Museum of Asian Art (Berlin, Germany): Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (Germany); Kunsthalle Mannheim (Germany); and many others.
AIKO TEZUKA
Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1976 Aiko Tezuka currently lives in Berlin, Germany. In 2001, Tezuka completed the Master’s Degree programme in Painting at Musashino Art University, Tokyo (studied under sculptor Toya Shigeo). In 2005, she completed a PhD in Painting at the Art Research Department of Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan (studied under painter Usami Keiji). From 2010 to 2011, lived and worked in London, UK, supported by the Gotoh Memorial Cultural Foundation. Then began to live in Berlin (2011), with the support of a fellowship from the Japanese Government’s Overseas Study Program for Artists. In 1997, embarked on a type of work that unravels ready-made fabric. Has continued to create new structural forms through referring to and editing historical objects, using unique methods of her own.
Recent exhibitions: The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Fukuoka Art Museum; The National Art Center, Tokyo; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art; Toyota Municipal Museum of Art; TextielMuseum (Netherlands); Johann Jacobs Museum (Switzerland); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea (Seoul, Korea); Ayala Museum (Philippines); Turner Contemporary (UK); Museum of Asian Art (Berlin, Germany): Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (Germany); Kunsthalle Mannheim (Germany); and many others.
2022
Aiko Tezuka’s B-side (tentative title), Daikokuya, Nasushiobara, Japan, April
2021
STUDIO-Exhibition with Aiko Tezuka, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
2019
Dear Oblivion – ???????, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany, 13 September – 30 November 2019
Flowery Obscurity – ???, MA2 gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 7 – 28 September 2019
Dear Oblivion – ???????, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan, 3 – 28 September 2019
2018
Fragments of Thoughts, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany, 24 April – 25 May 2018
2015
Stardust Letters, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan, 18 July – 8 November 2015
Lessons for Restoration, MAGO, Eidsvoll, Akershus, Norway, 27 June – 27 September 2015
Unraveling, Restoring, Ayala Museum, Manila, Philippines, 8 June – 19 July 2015
2014
Thin Membrane, Pictures Come Down, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany, 13 September – 9 November 2014
Certainty / Entropy, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany 13 September – 25 October 2014
Certainty / Entropy, Third Floor Hermès Singapore, Singapore, 9 May – 27 July 2014
Art Basel Hong Kong, booth of Galerie Michael Janssen, Hong Kong, 15-18 May 2014
2013
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2022
Aiko Tezuka’s B-side (tentative title), Daikokuya, Nasushiobara, Japan, April
2021
STUDIO-Exhibition with Aiko Tezuka, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
2019
Dear Oblivion – ???????, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany, 13 September – 30 November 2019
Flowery Obscurity – ???, MA2 gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 7 – 28 September 2019
Dear Oblivion – ???????, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan, 3 – 28 September 2019
2018
Fragments of Thoughts, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany, 24 April – 25 May 2018
2015
Stardust Letters, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan, 18 July – 8 November 2015
Lessons for Restoration, MAGO, Eidsvoll, Akershus, Norway, 27 June – 27 September 2015
Unraveling, Restoring, Ayala Museum, Manila, Philippines, 8 June – 19 July 2015
2014
Thin Membrane, Pictures Come Down, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany, 13 September – 9 November 2014
Certainty / Entropy, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany 13 September – 25 October 2014
Certainty / Entropy, Third Floor Hermès Singapore, Singapore, 9 May – 27 July 2014
Art Basel Hong Kong, booth of Galerie Michael Janssen, Hong Kong, 15-18 May 2014
2013
Rewoven, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany, 9 November – 21 December 2013
Ghost – Suspended Organs, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany, 22 March – 9 May 2013
Ghost – Suspended Organs, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 18 January – 10 February 2013
2011
Prism Lag, Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum, Kyoto, Japan, 17 March – 12 June 2011
Transparent Fruits, KENJI TAKI Gallery, Nagoya and Tokyo, Japan, 5 March – 23 April (Nagoya), 11 March – 23 April (Tokyo) 2011
2009
Fragile Surface – Cat’s Cradle, KENJI TAKI Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 16 July – 9 September 2009
2008
Aiko Tezuka, Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company South Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Sewing up, in between Ghosts, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Thin Film, Underground Forest, SPIRAL/Wacoal Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan, 5 – 18 January 2007
Aiko Tezuka, KENJI TAKI Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
2005
Aiko Tezuka, INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo, Japan, 1 – 26 April 2005
Aiko Tezuka, CASO, Osaka, Japan
2004
Outside of Modernism, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, Japan, 5 March – 3 April 2004
2001
Aiko Tezuka, Tokyo Art Factory, Tokyo, Japan
2000
Aiko Tezuka, Gallery Rasen, Tokyo, Japan
Awards
2010
Fellowship under the Japan Government Overseas Study Programme (for 2 years), Tokyo, Japan
2nd prize at the award of Mr. I, Okayama Prefecture, Okayama, Japan
2009
Annual award from The Gotoh Memorial Foundation (fellowship to study abroad for 1 year), Tokyo, Japan
2005
3rd Prize, VOCA Exhibition, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2002
1st prize, Kyo-ten, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Public collection
TextielMuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands
Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
The Art Museum in NorthTrøndelag (Kunstmuseet Nord-Trøndelag), Namsos, Norway
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, South Korea
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
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2010
Fellowship under the Japan Government Overseas Study Programme (for 2 years), Tokyo, Japan
2nd prize at the award of Mr. I, Okayama Prefecture, Okayama, Japan
2009
Annual award from The Gotoh Memorial Foundation (fellowship to study abroad for 1 year), Tokyo, Japan
2005
3rd Prize, VOCA Exhibition, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2002
1st prize, Kyo-ten, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Public collection
TextielMuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands
Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
The Art Museum in NorthTrøndelag (Kunstmuseet Nord-Trøndelag), Namsos, Norway
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, South Korea
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan
Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION, Aichi, Japan
The Palace Side Hotel (Room 439), Kyoto, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2022
PRINT&PAINT. 350 years flowers on cotton, KASTEEL D’URSEL, Belgium, May
2021
Fuji Textile Week, Fujiyoshida, Japan, December
Loose Ends, Jane Lombard Gallery, NY, June
Charlottenburg, Bar Am, Berlin, Germany, April
Workation Risort Bichu Yakage, Yakage, Okayama, Japan, January
2020
Linking Transformations. Positionen japanischer und norddeutscher Gegenwartskunst, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 26 September 2020 – 21 February 2021
The Haptic Eye, online group exhibition, Curated by Mark Gisbourne, Organized by ArtCircle, Artists: Shaarbek Amankul, Birgit Dieker, Sheila Hicks, Ritzi & Peter Jacobi, Marie Claire Messouma Manlanbien, Aiko Tezuka, Günter Weseler, Magda (Vitalyos) Ziman, 18 September – 30 December 2020
Loose Thread, online group exhibition, hosted by BLANK SPACE Gallery, NY, New York, 6 September – 27 September 2020
Collection Highlights, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, 28 April 2020 – 31 March 2021
2019
MOT Collection: Pleased to meet you. New Acquisitions in recent years, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan, 29 March – 16 June 2019
Weavers of Worlds – A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art –, Grand Reopening Exhibition, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan, 29 March – 16 June 2019
This is our collection + Yinka Shonibare CBE: Flower Power, Grand Reopening Exhibition, the Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, 21 March – 26 May 2019
2018
Group show (featuring three artists), MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 30 November – 22 December 2018
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2022
PRINT&PAINT. 350 years flowers on cotton, KASTEEL D’URSEL, Belgium, May
2021
Fuji Textile Week, Fujiyoshida, Japan, December
Loose Ends, Jane Lombard Gallery, NY, June
Charlottenburg, Bar Am, Berlin, Germany, April
Workation Risort Bichu Yakage, Yakage, Okayama, Japan, January
2020
Linking Transformations. Positionen japanischer und norddeutscher Gegenwartskunst, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 26 September 2020 – 21 February 2021
The Haptic Eye, online group exhibition, Curated by Mark Gisbourne, Organized by ArtCircle, Artists: Shaarbek Amankul, Birgit Dieker, Sheila Hicks, Ritzi & Peter Jacobi, Marie Claire Messouma Manlanbien, Aiko Tezuka, Günter Weseler, Magda (Vitalyos) Ziman, 18 September – 30 December 2020
Loose Thread, online group exhibition, hosted by BLANK SPACE Gallery, NY, New York, 6 September – 27 September 2020
Collection Highlights, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, 28 April 2020 – 31 March 2021
2019
MOT Collection: Pleased to meet you. New Acquisitions in recent years, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan, 29 March – 16 June 2019
Weavers of Worlds – A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art –, Grand Reopening Exhibition, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan, 29 March – 16 June 2019
This is our collection + Yinka Shonibare CBE: Flower Power, Grand Reopening Exhibition, the Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, 21 March – 26 May 2019
2018
Group show (featuring three artists), MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 30 November – 22 December 2018
Cultural Threads, TextielMuseum Tilburg, Netherlands, 24 November 2018 – 12 May 2019
RAUM XVII, Werkhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin, Germany, 13 – 30 September 2018
Notes from a trembling community in a wilful state of flux, Hotel Maria Kapel (HMK), Hoorn, The Netherlands, 8 September – 20 October 2018
Watch Your Bubble!, Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany, 10 May – 23 June 2018
A Painting for the Emperor, Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich, Switzerland, 8 February – 31 May 2018
I HEAR YOU (Jeg Hører Deg), The Art Museum in NorthTrøndelag, Namsos, Norway, 20 January – 26 May 2018
2017
re:construction, PLADS artspace, Aarhus, Denmark, 29 October – 25 November 2017
Sommerfest, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany, 11 – 26 August 2017
ripple effect – through the surface, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 26 May – 17 June 2017
New Acquisitions 2013~16 Samramansang from KIM Whanki to YANG Fudong, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, 13 March – 13 August 2017
CAMK Collection vol.5 / You know? It’s said that Kumamoto-local-treasures have unveiled!, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan, 18 February – 26 March 2017
Entangled: Threads & Making, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, 28 January – 7 May 2017
2016
Nightfall (LE RETOUR DES TÉNÈBRES), Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland, 2 December 2016 – 19 March 2017
Spider’s Threads – Spinning images of Japanese beauty, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan, 15 October – 25 December 2016
Bleibt man an einem Ort, oder nicht (2-persons show with Shingo Yoshida), Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, 9 September – 21 October 2016
Schnittmengen, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany, 3 June 2016 – 08 January 2017
Die Gezeiten, Transmitter – Raum für Kultur und Sprache, Berlin, Germany, 24 -26 June 2016
Disegno – Japanische Zeichenkunst der Gegenwart, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, 9 April – 28 May 2016
HÖHENRAUSCH, EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, Germany, 12 February – 05 March 2016
2015
Artist File 2015 Next Doors, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, Gwacheon, South Korea, 10 November 2015 – 14 February 2016
Artist File 2015 Next Doors: Contemporary Art in Japan and Korea, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan, 29 July – 12 October 2015
TOMROM, Larvik kunstforening, Larvik, Vestfold, Norway, 23 May – 21 June 2015
Ob das Blatt sich an die Wurzel erinnert?, Galerie Dina Renninger, Munich, Germany, 13 May – 13 July 2015
TOMROM, Sandefjord kunstforening, Sandefjord, Vestfold, Norway, 9 May – 7 June 2015
2014
Mr. I Prize winner exhibition, Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan, 8 November – 14 December 2014
h a u s s t e l l e n , exhibition concept in Pompéry’s apartment, Berlin, Germany, 25 April – 5 May 2014
Japanische Gegenwartskunst und Textil, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, 24 January – 22 February 2014
Installation View / Installationsansicht, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany, 17 January – 9 March 2014
In Search of Critical Imagination, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, 5 January – 23 February 2014
2013
To Open Eyes, Art and Textiles from the Bauhaus to Today, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, 17 November 2013 – 2 March 2014
Disruptive Patterns. Plots, Plans and Movements. (Prelude), Altes Finanzamt, Berlin, Germany, 16 -20 September 2013
The Empire of Folds: Fashion and Textile Art from Japan, Museum Bellerive, Ein Haus des Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland, 30 August 2013 – 12 January 2014
Embracing the land: reframing textiles, Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art KINARE, Niigata, Japan, 20 July – 20 October 2013
STOFF Summlung Textile Skulpturen, Kreissparkasse Rottweil, Germany, 18 June – 28 July 2013
BLUMEN, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin, Germany, 24 May – 31 August 2013
How to become who you are, BWA, Tarnów, Poland, 10 May – 23 June 2013
Home Stories, Villa 102, Bockenheimer Landstrasse 102 (former Literaturhaus), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 15 March – 28 April 2013
MOT Collection, Our Ninety Years: 1923-2013 Afterimages of tomorrow, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan, 6 April – 9 June 2013
Please do not touch!? (a special exhibition from the permanent collections), Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan, 12 January – 7 April 2013
2012
Letters from the Field (curated by NODE), Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, 21 – 26 August 2012
The New Contemporaries, @KCUA gallery, Kyoto Art University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan, 3 – 25 March 2012
2011
Art in an Office, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan, 8 January – 27 March 2011
2010
SHOW in the project space, Royal College of Art, Sculpture, London, UK, 12 – 15 December 2010
The 20th Anniversary of the Gotoh Memorial Foundation, Bunkamura The Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 30 October – 7 November 2010
Celebratory Textiles – from Edo to the present day, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan, 10 April – 13 June 2010
2009
City_net Asia, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea, 30 September – 22 November 2009
Sidetrack, Tokorozawa Biennial, Saitama, Japan, 28 August – 23 September 2009
Stitch by Stitch, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 18 July – 27 September 2009
New power! New collections in 2008, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan, 11 April – 21 June 2009
2008
Pre-Exhibition Tokorozawa Biennial of Contemporary Art SIDING RAIL ROAD, Saitama, Japan, 27 August – 12 September 2008
Secrets and Trick, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan, 5 July – 24 August 2008
Tangent, Artist in residence, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan, 14 June – 13 July 2008 (Residence: 28 April – 19 July 2008)
New collections show, Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan, 16 February – 13 April 2008
MOT annual 2008, Unraveling and Revealing, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 9 February – 13 April 2008
Art in TIME AND STYLE MIDTOWN vol.3 Drawing, TIME&STYLE MIDTOWN, Tokyo, Japan, 1 February – 31 May 2008
2007
Cycle and Recycle, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan, 7 September – 4 November 2007
Paradise of Illusion, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 11 May – 16 June 2007
Sawako Tanizawa, Aiko Tezuka, Gunji Fukasawa, Kentaro Yokouchi, CASO, Osaka, Japan, 17 – 29 April 2007
Painting as Forest: Artist as Thinker, Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan, 10 February – 25 March 2007
2006
Echigo – Tsumari Art Triennial 2006, Tokamachi, Niigata, Japan, 23 July – 10 September 2006
√roots, Honenin temple, Kyoto, Japan, 15 – 24 June 2006
2005
Spiral Take Art Collection, Spiral/Wacoal Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan, 20 – 30 October 2005
WILD GIRLS LULLABY, art zone, Kyoto, Japan, August 2005
art in transit, The Palace Side Hotel (Room 439), Kyoto, Japan, June 2005
VOCA 2005 The Vision of Contemporary Art (3rd prize winner), Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 15 – 30 March 2005
2004
Spiral Take Art Collection, Spiral/Wacoal Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan, 23 October – 7 November 2004
Selected Artists in Kyoto-2004 New Wave, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, 24 January – 8 February 2004
2003
Art Court Frontier, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, Japan, 12 July – 3 August 2003
2002
Kyo-Ten, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (1st prize), Japan, 4 – 20 June 2002
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