YUKI KIMURA

Born in 1971 in Kyoto, Japan.Lives and works in Kyoto and Berlin.

‘Yuki Kimura’s work exists both as an elegant, static, physical form with a calmly assertivepresence in space, and as an immaterial, wandering, and vibrating force reflective of allthat exists around and throughout it—in the negative, so to speak. It initiates processes oftransformation and is transformative itself, which may at first appear counterintuitive toits static appearance. The passive, mute, and durable world of objects and physical matterthat one encounters in her work becomes a place of dynamic processes and shapeshifting,where the stable appearance and order of things are profoundly transformed. Kimura’swork operates beyond language, occupying an entirely visual sphere, but communicates ata highly visceral and embodied level of perception.’—Kathrin Bentele

Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions such as The Kunstverein für dieRheinlande und Westfalen-Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (2022); CCA Wattis Institute, SanFrancisco (2016); Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis (2011); IZU PHOTOMUSEUM, Shizuoka (2010); Daiwa Press Viewing Room, Hiroshima (2009).

She has been included in several international group shows such as Artists Space, New York(2019); Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach (2017); Museum of Modern Art,New York (2015); 30th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo (2012); Le Plateau | Frac Île-de-France,Paris (2012); The National Museum of Art, Osaka (2011); MOT Collection, Museum ofContemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo (2010); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2004); 6th InternationalIstanbul Biennial, Istanbul (1999).

Yuki Kimura’s works have joined the collections of Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi;Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Shizuoka; Kadist Art Foundation,San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo; The Museum of ModernArt, New York; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum,Shizuoka.

Press release courtesy Galerie Chantal Crousel