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Nao Kikuchi

 

b.1988 in Tochigi  JP

Lives and works in Karlsruhe DE

 

2020-2023    Further education course, Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe DE

2019-2020    Guest study, Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe DE

2011-2013    MFA, Tama Art University, Tokyo  JP

2007-2011    BFA, Tama Art University, Tokyo  JP

 

Solo exhibitions

2024​

Game, Trust, Vienna  AT 

2017     

Tail... be shot, hanakoma,Tokyo  JP

 

 

Group exhibitions

2024

Regionale 25, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, FR

Beau Travail, Vienna AT

The 83. Exhibition, foryouandyourcustomers, Stuttgart DE (duo) 
Shifting Shapes and Foolish Forms, pool, Karlsruhe DE

Die Kunst und der Raum, Johannesberg, DE
Commendation and Intention, POLA Museum Annex, Tokyo JP
Art Fair Tokyo 2024, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo JP

 

2023  

Man Wirft Einen Kleinen Stein, V8, Karlsruhe DE (duo)

RSVP, Luis Leu, Karlsruhe DE (duo)
SCHLAG AUF BAU EIN, Architekturschaufenster, Karlsruhe DE  

Klick Blick, Orgelfabrik Kultur in Durlach, Karlsruhe DE
 

2022    

HOME -ie-, Orgelfabrik Kultur in Durlach, Karlsruhe DE     
Regionale 23/ Im Zweifel Zickzack, Kunstverein FABRIKculture, Hégenheim FR
This Space Exists Without Me, Laube, Karlsruhe DE
Enclosure, Stella, Berlin DE
Escape from New York, Kunstverein Kandel, Kandel DE
Sommerausstellung, Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe DE
Labyrinth/ Strassen Kunst Festival, Stuttgart DE

A Room with a Cue, Karlsruhe DE           

 

2021 

Candle Lights, Laube, Karlsruhe, DE (duo)

Regionale 22, Kunst Raum Riehen, Riehen CH

pingo ergo sum, Galerie Altes Schloss, Wehr DE

Zoom, Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe DE

Hotel Simplon, Giulietta, Basel CH

Firststep Katharsis, wieoftnoch, Karlsruhe DE

 

2019   

When Karl Met Trixie, TRIXIE, The Hague NL

Different faces of sharing, Hotel cappuccino /Seoul KR 

 

2017     

The Abstract, TANA Studio, Kanagawa  JP

KILALA arts, TOBU Department Store, Tochigi  JP

 

2016     

HANA-Re in WATARASE Art Project, Ashikaga residence, Tochigi  JP

SUPER OPEN STUDIO 2016, TANA Studio, Kanagawa  JP

 

2015     

SUPER OPEN STUDIO 2015, TANA Studio, Kanagawa  JP

 

2014     

Hopping Soil, HIGURE 17-15cas, Tokyo  JP

 

2013     

call, call, call,  TERNER GALLERY, Tokyo  JP

 

2012     

Diving and Surfacing, Gallery K, Tokyo  JP (Duo)

close my eyes, rub, draw lines, peel away, Tama Art University, Tokyo  JP

Scholarship, award

2022 

Grant for Overseas Research,  Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation 

2021 

Grant for Overseas Research,  Pola Art Foundation 

Academy Prize, Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe 

 

2013   

Holbein Scholarship

 

2011   

Tokyo Wonder Wall 2011

SHELL ART AWARD 2011

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