Ikemura's sculptures are mostly made of bronze and terracotta or glass. For the HdP, she has now created her very first three-dimensional paper work. For this, she added two new examples in the bright white material papier-mâché to one of her best-known series of resting heads. The unsmoothed white surface with delicately modelled facial features quietly hints at the inspiration behind the work - the mythological creature Kitsune, an ice fox that takes the form of a beautiful young woman. The presence of her somnambulistic works is always breathtaking. Now here a new component, the physically light, has been added. Leiko Ikemura was born in Tsu/Japan in 1951. At the age of 21, she moved to Europe to study literature and later painting in Seville. She has received numerous awards, including the August Macke Prize, 2009; German Critics' Prize for Visual Arts, 2001. 1990-2015 she taught at the UdK Berlin. Worldwide exhibitions, including: Kunsthalle Karlsruhe; Kunstmuseum Basel; MCBA Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne; Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno; Weserburg - Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, among others. Her works are in collections of Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris; Kunstmuseen Basel, Bern and Zürich; Kunsthalle Nürnberg; Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, among others.