Yuka Kashihara

  • Installation images from “Lemon” The first floor lobby of Dai-ichi Life Hibiya Head Office, Tokyo, Japan, 2021 ©Yuka Kashihara, photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation images from “Lemon” The first floor lobby of Dai-ichi Life Hibiya Head Office, Tokyo, Japan, 2021 ©Yuka Kashihara, photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation images from “Lemon” The first floor lobby of Dai-ichi Life Hibiya Head Office, Tokyo, Japan, 2021 ©Yuka Kashihara, photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation images from “Lemon” The first floor lobby of Dai-ichi Life Hibiya Head Office, Tokyo, Japan, 2021 ©Yuka Kashihara, photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Ice Life II 2020 acrylic and oil on canvas 130.6 × 170.2 cm ©︎Yuka Kashihara
  • ヨーラパ 2020 acrylic and oil on canvas 130 x 160 cm ©️Yuka Kashihara
  • ©︎POLA MUSEUM ANNEX
  • ©︎POLA MUSEUM ANNEX
  • Dog Day I 2020 140.2 x 190.7 cm acrylic and oil on canvas ©︎Yuka Kashihara
  • Pineapple Day 2020 acrylic and oil on canvas 65 x 85 cm ©️Yuka Kashihara
  • C World 2020 acrylic and oil on canvas 150 x 300 cm ©️Yuka Kashihara
  • Lemon Tree 2020 acrylic and oil on canvas 100.3 x 80.5 cm ©️Yuka Kashihara
  • Black Swan Spring 2019 tempera and oil on canvas 160 × 120.2 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • Gathering Ⅱ 2014 tempera and oil on canvas 153.4 × 179.1 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • Floaters 2019 tempera and oil on canvas 170.5 × 230 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • Milford 2019 tempera and oil on canvas 230.1 × 170.1 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • Installation view from "Polar Green" 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2019 ©Yuka Kashihara, photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation view from "Polar Green" 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2019 ©Yuka Kashihara, photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation view from "Polar Green" 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2019 ©Yuka Kashihara, photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation view from "Polar Green" 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2019 ©Yuka Kashihara, photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation view from "Polar Green" 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2019 ©Yuka Kashihara, photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation view from "Polar Green" 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2019 ©Yuka Kashihara, photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • 彷徨う隙間 Ⅱ Hovering Gap Ⅱ 2016 tempera oil and crayon on canvas 120 × 160 cm ©︎Yuka Kashihara
  • Nightbird Tempera 2017 oil on canvas 160 x 120 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • Tracking Light Ⅰ 追いかける光 Ⅰ 2016 tempera and oil on canvas 160 × 120 cm  ©Yuka Kashihara
  • Installation view from "Sky-Eye Weaver" 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2016 ©Yuka Kashihara, photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation view from "Sky-Eye Weaver" 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2016 ©Yuka Kashihara, photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation view from "Sky-Eye Weaver" 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2016 ©Yuka Kashihara, photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation view from "Sky-Eye Weaver" 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2016 ©Yuka Kashihara, photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation view from "Sky-Eye Weaver" 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2016 ©Yuka Kashihara, photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Installation view from "Sky-Eye Weaver" 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2016 ©Yuka Kashihara, photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Last Mountain l 再後の山 l 2015 tempera and oil on canvas 170 x 230 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • Installation view from "First Island – Last Mountain" Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan, 2016 ©Yuka Kashihara
  • Installation view from "First Island – Last Mountain" Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan, 2016 ©Yuka Kashihara
  • Installation view from "First Island – Last Mountain" Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan, 2016 ©Yuka Kashihara
  • Gathering 2013 tempera and oil on canvas 30.5 x 40.0 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • Sky Lake 2013 tempera and oil on canvas 170.0 x 250.5 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • installation view from "Repeating Traces" at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2013 ©Yuka Kashihara, photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • installation view from "Repeating Traces" at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2013 ©Yuka Kashihara, photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • installation view from "Repeating Traces" at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2013 ©Yuka Kashihara, photo by Kenji Takahashi
  • Transport II 2012 tempera and oil on canvas 50.5 x 60.0 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • Thousand Years 2012 tempera and oil on canvas 180.5 x 260.0 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • ヤマヤマ 2012 tempera and oil on canvas 30.5 x 40.0 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • Pool 2012 tempera and oil on canvas 30.5 x 40.0 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • Whereabouts 2012 tempera and oil on canvas 60.0 x 70.0 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • パラレンズ Paralens 2012 oil on canvas 125.5 x 160.0 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • Transport 2012 tempera and oil on canvas 140.5 x 200.0 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • installation view from "Transition" TKG Editions Kyoto, 2012 ©Yuka Kashihara
  • installation view from "Transition" TKG Editions Kyoto, 2012 ©Yuka Kashihara
  • Dazwischen 2011 oil on canvas 30.0 x 42.0 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • Portal 2011 acrylic and oil on canvas 120.0 x 160.0 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • 塩山 Salz Berg 2010 tempera and oil on canvas 80.0 x 100.0 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • 山の山 Berg auf Berg 2010 tempera and oil on canvas 100.0 x 120.0 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • 外 Aussen 2010 tempera and oil on canvas 100.0 x 130.0 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • 内 innen 2010 oil on canvas 100.0 x 130.0 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • 出口 Ausgang 2010 oil on canvas 100.0 x 140.0 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • 山を掘る 2010 tempera and oil on canvas 120.0 x 160.0 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • カッパドキア kapadokya 2010 oil on canvas 120.0 x 160.0 cm ©Yuka Kashihara
  • installation view from "Amid" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2011 ©Yuka Kashihara
  • installation view from "Amid" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2011 ©Yuka Kashihara

Yuka Kashihara uses oil paint applied in a thinly diffuse manner similar to that of Japanese nihonga painting, and by applying it in numerous layers she is able to create a unique depth of color. Within the world of her artworks, scenes from both reality and the spaces of the internal imagination are gently interwoven. Against this backdrop, having left Japan and moved to Germany where she continued developing her practice, Kashihara acquired an interest in the ‘distance’ between the internal and the external. This included the physical distance between Japan and Germany; and further, the distance herself as a Japanese person and herself while in Germany. This becomes expressed symbolically as an introspective speculation in the forms of the motifs of caves, holes, mountains and lakes which she repeatedly takes up within her work, and through this process of sublimation it is as though the original energies which lie dormant within the great Earth have become awakened.

Yuka Kashihara was born in 1980 in Hiroshima Prefecture. In 2006 she graduated from the Japanese Painting Department of Musashino Art University. In the same year she moved to Germany, and in 2013 she acquired a Diploma from the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. In 2015, she was named a Meisterschüler (Masters graduate) of the same academy, studying under Professor Annette Schröter. In 2008 she exhibited at the Bauhuas Dessau Foundation in Shakkei (“borrowed scenery”), a solo show curated by research scholar Torsten Blume of the same Foundation, and in 2012 she exhibited in VOCA, Tokyo, where she received both the Honourable Mention Award and the Ohara Museum of Art Award.

1980 Born in Hiroshima, Japan
2006 B.F.A in Japanese Painting, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
2012 Stayed in Germany under POLA Art Foundation Grants Program
2013 Completed Diploma in Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Germany
    A part-time lecturer of Musashino Art University, Department of Japanese Painting, Tokyo (-2017)
2015 Completed Meisterschüler in Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Germany (under Prof. Annette Schroeter)

She has moved her base from Germany to Japan in 2022.

http://yukakashihara.com

Solo Exhibitions

2022 “Yuka Kashihara” Acquavella Galleries, Palm Beach, FL
2021 “Lemon” The first floor lobby of Dai-ichi Life Hibiya Head Office, Tokyo, Japan
1:1” POLA MUSEUM ANNEX, Tokyo, Japan
2019 “Polar Green” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2017 “Self Similar” Gallery Martin Mertens, Berlin, Germany
2016 “First Island - Last Mountain” Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
“Sky-Eye Weaver” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013 “Repeating Traces” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012 “Transition”TKG Editions Kyoto, Japan
2011 “Amid” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008 “Shakkei” (“borrowed scenery”) Bauhaus Dessau, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2023 “Plastic Revives” POLA MUSEUM ANNEX, Tokyo, Japan
2022 “Spring is around the corner” POLA MUSEUM ANNEX, Tokyo, Japan
“Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes” Acquavella Galleries, Palm Beach, FL / New York, USA
2021 “萬華鏡 KALEIDOSCOPE” YIRI ARTS, Taiwan
"Find your travel" POLA MUSEUM ANNEX, Tokyo, Japan
“TOKYO⭐︎VOCA Ⅱ” The first floor lobby of Dai-ichi Life Hibiya Head Office, Tokyo, Japan
2020 “Christmas Smile Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo, Japan
“TOKYO⭐︎VOCA” The first floor lobby of Dai-ichi Life Hibiya Head Office, Tokyo, Japan
2019 “Tomio Koyama Gallery: Works from the Gallery Artists and the Collection 4”
8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016 “Klassen Treffen” Kunsthalle der Sparkasse, Leipzig, Germany

Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
2015 “Malerinnen aus Leipzig” Kunsthalle der Sparkasse, Leipzig, Germany

8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014 POLA MUSEUM ANNEX, Tokyo, Japan
“Ohara Contemporary at Musabi” Musashino Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“Kein Spaß” Masterclass Exhibition, Dresden, Germany
2013 “Kein Spaß” Masterclass Exhibition, Erfurt, Germany
“Ohara Contemporary” Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
“Why not live for Art? II -9 collectors reveal their treasures” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan
2012 “VOCA '12” The Ueno Royal Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2011 “Mind the Gap” Specks Hof, Leipzig, Germany

2008 Galerie Burgstrasse, Halle, Germany

2007 Galerie Burgstrasse, Halle, Germany

Public Collections

Kunsthalle der Sparkasse, Germany
Nanjo Art Museum, Japan
Ohara Museum of Art, Japan

Awards

2012 the Honourable Mention Award, the Ohara Museum of Art Award, VOCA '12



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