Born in Tokyo, Japan. Lives and works in Berlin and Tokyo.
EDUCATION
2008
Received Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur Berlin
2009
Received Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation Scholarship
2004-2007
Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists provided by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Berlin
2002
Master of Fine Art, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
2000-2004
Graduated from Berlin Art Academy, Germany
1998
Bachelor of Fine Art, Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Which Leaf is Falling?, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
2019
Madeleine. V, Olympic, and my Garden, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2018
Which Second is the Most Excited?, Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa
2017
Which Second was the Most Beautiful?, Which Year was the Most Beautiful?,
EBESPERGER, Berlin
2016
Something falling from the sky, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2012
dearest unknown You, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Kei Takemura, Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore
2009
Dresden Dream with Y.A. Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin
in that moment:where was she? Rahn Contemporary, Zurich
You are welcome!, Kuenstlerverein Malkasten, Duesseldorf
2008
Apart a part, Tokyo Wondersite, Tokyo
2007
even if we are not together, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2006
May i enter? Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin
2005
Rooming in, Gallery Mbassy, Berlin
To act different parts of dearest You, Raum 45, Schwäbisch Hall
2004
To remember the past days more exactly / Bruesselerstr. 15, Berlin
For dearest You, Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo
Kei Takemura, Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin
2003
To remember the past days more exactly, Closet Gallery, Halifax
2002
Renovation in Berlin : Bruesselerstrasse 15, Berlin
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Kengo Kito・Takemura Kei “Go back and fetch me out that doodle-do!”, PHILLIPS, Tokyo
2019
Nagashima Yurie x Takemura Kei “Now ⇆ Then”, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
2014
Images from Memories / Memories from Images, BankART Studio NYK 2F Gallery A・B, Kanagawa
Naka-Boso International Art Festival Ichihara Art x Mix, Tsukide Kousya, Chiba
“Now Japan” Exhibition with 37 contemporary Japanese artists, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Holland
2012
lost in space, Rahn Contemporary, Zürich
AURA, kunstraum t 27 • Kunstverein Neukölln e.V.
Berlin THE ECHO – Although I am still alive -, Kunstquartier Bethanien: Center for Contemporary Arts, Berlin
Power of a Painting, NADiff Gallery, Tokyo
BERLIN.STATUS (1), Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2013
DINGE 3: SINN- (lichkeit), Klostergalerie Zehdenick, Zehdenick, Germany
2011
Himmelsbohnen, BACK-RAUM IM CON-SUM, Duesseldorf
2010
Seiichi Shirai, Spirit and Space, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
Selected Artists 2009, NGBK, Berlin
Pig-ment, Zentralvieh und Schlachthof in Lansberger Allee, Berlin
Boomerang. Perm Biennial of Graphic Arts, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm
2009
Unerreichbar ist gerade nah genug, Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin
VOCA2009, the Ueno Royal museum, Tokyo
Fragile, Musée d’Art Moderne of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne
Stitch by Stitch, Tokyo metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo
2008
Artist File, Tokyo Art Center, Japan
von dem was dann noch bleibt, nassauischer kunstverein wiesbaden, Germany
Between Time and Space, the nunnery, London
2007
THREAD, Koroska Gallery of Fine Arts in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
Fremd/Heimat, Schloss Agathenburg, Germany
Cycle and Recycle, Aichi Art Center, Japan
Take me to the edge of heaven Goldrausch 2007, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanian,
2006
Sydney Biennale, Sydney
2005
Rooming-In, art Mbassy, Berlin
2004
Body, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover
10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Taka Ishii Gallery
UNPAINTED:4 Positions, Villa Grisebach Gallery, Berlin
2003
Exhibition in Hospital, Krankenhaus Lichtenberg, Berlin
Normal / Normal?, Dirt Gallery, Kansas City
Reading Spaces, Gallery Plastyfikatory, Lubon
Performance Night, Udk in Hardenbergst. 33, Berlin
2002
Hier and Now, Buero Friedrich, Berlin
GASAG Kunstpreis 2002, Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, Berlin
Normal , Spica Museum, Tokyo, Studio J, Osaka, Izutsuya, Hiroshima, 3rd So-ko, Fukuoka
1998
Walking Museum, Shinjuku, Takashimaya, Tokyo
1996
Takemura K Sekimari, Gallery Promoarte, Tokyo
Technik Museum, Berlin
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
Takahashi Collection
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2009
Arbeitsstipendium des Berliner Senats, Berlin Senate Scholarship
2009
Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation Scholarship
2008
Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur Berlin
2004–2007
Stipendium des Kultusministeriums, Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture, Bunka-Cho
2001–2003
DAAD Stipendium, Berlin, DAAD Scholarship
2000
Stipendium der Pola Foundation, Scholarship of the PolaFoundation
2000
Grants for Overseas Study by Young Artists from Pola Foundation 2000-2003
Deutsch Akademisches Austausch Dienst Scholarship
2019
Nagashima Yurie x Takemura Kei “Now ⇆ Then”, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
2017
PLAYING CARDS, Taka Ishii Gallery
2012
Prosaic Verse, Taka Ishii Gallery
2011
Arte e critica 66, P60-62, Two ways of re-thinking asian tradition by Eunmi Lee
2010
Seiichi Shirai, Anima et Persona
Selected Artists 2009” Berlin Senate Work Scholarship 2009, NGBK
2009
Fagile Fields of Empathy, Musee d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Metropole, Saint-Etienne
2008
TEAM Kei Takemura, Tokyo Wonder Site,TokyO
Artist File 2008 Kei Takemura, Tokyo Art Center, Tokyo
2007
even if we’re not together, Goldrausch Kunstlerinnenprojekt art IT, Berlin
Cycle and Recycle, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi
2006
Bijutsu Techo, July issue/Bijutsu Publishing Co., Tokyo-Japan
Zones of Contact, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
2005
High Fashion, No.308 April issue, Bunka Shuppankyoku
Takemura Kei in Berlin 2000-2005, Taka Ishii Gallery
2004
Radius Berlin, Radius, Berlin
Unpainted, Villa Grisebach Gallery, Germany
Luca magazine, issue no.7, Esquire magazine, Japan
STUDIO VOICE, June issue, Infas publications, Tokyo
Republique magazine, June issue, Hankyu Communications, Tokyo
gallery, May issue, Gallery Station, Tokyo
Bijutsu Techo, March issue, Bijutsu Publishing Co., Tokyo
ARCO SPECIAL, Spring 2004, Madrid
El Mundo, February 13th, Madrid
2002
Bijustu Techo, December issue, Bijutsu Publishing Co., Tokyo
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