MAKI NA KAMURA
JapanMaki Na Kamura’s work unfolds within a web of diverse artistic traditions, dismantling familiar pictorial conventions and reassembling them into compositions that resist clear categorization. Moving fluidly between abstraction and figuration, her paintings allow figurative elements to gradually emerge, often in nuanced dialogue between the bold intensity of oil paints and the delicate softness of pastel tempera. This interplay produces textures and forms imbued with a singular depth and atmosphere. Her practice reflects a sustained interest in destabilizing traditional notions of landscape and representation, drawing from art historical references while resisting fixed interpretations.
Na Kamura has been the recipient of the Falkenrot Prize in Germany and the Prix Marcel Broodthaers in Belgium. Her works are held in major institutional collections, including the Museum Haus Kasuya, Yokosuka; Bilbao Arte, Bilbao; Osthaus Museum, Hagen; and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium. Significant institutional exhibitions include Salon des éditions, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium (2020); Steine legen, Äpfel lessen, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (2017), Horizonte, arco iris y horizonte at Bilbao Arte (2015), o lala, von was für glänzenden liebhabereien ich träumte at Oldenburger Kunstverein (2014), and Maki Na Kamura at Museum Haus Kasuya (2011).
Courtesy Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin/Basel.
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