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

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

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

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