Maki Na Kamura

„My hands can produce images without knowing why they do it. Painting is in itself an absurd act—its irrationality can be an asset for the future.“

Born in Osaka, Na Kamura studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Jörg Immendorff. Her work navigates the rich intersections of Japanese and Western art histories, thereby deconstructing established pictorial conventions, reassembling them into compositions that elude categorization.

Na Kamura navigates the space between abstraction and figuration, allowing figurative elements to gradually reveal themselves. The nuanced dialogue between bold intensity of oil paints and the delicate softness of pastel tempera results in textures and forms imbued with a unique sense of depth.

Na Kamura’s has been the recipient of the Falkenrot Prize in Germany as well as the Prix Marcel Broodthaers in Belgium. Her works are part of various renowned institutional collections such as the Museum Haus Kasuya, Yokosuka, Japan; Bilbao Arte, Bilbao, Spain; Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany and the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium, to name a few.

Born in Osaka, Japan
Lives and works in Berlin

Selected solo exhibitions

2025
Maki Na Kamura, Desert Incognito, Michael Werner, London, UK

2023
Maki Na Kamura
, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, USA
Maki Na Kamura
, Contemporary Fine Arts & Galerie Michael Werner, Berlin, Germany
Maki Na Kamura
, Michael Werner Gallery, London, UK

2022     
Maki Na Kamura
, Michael Werner Gallery, East Hampton, USA
Maki Na Kamura
, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria

2021     
Maki Na Kamura
, Setareh, Düsseldorf, Germany
B-DU DU
, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

2019
Exactly Like How a Child Who Watched Sugar Gradually Dissolve in Water Wonders Why Our Bodies Do not Dissolve That Way in the Bathtub
, Anomaly Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Maki Na Kamura und sieben Bilder
, Gutshaus Steglitz, Berlin, Germany

2018     
ISOTON,
Setareh Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

2017     
début
, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Steine legen, Äpfel lesen
, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium; Osthaus Museum, the Hague, Netherlands
Mit Links
, MDZ Art Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
SEEN by a painter,
Galerie Knoell, Basel, Switzerland

2016                     
Seit Horizonte da sind…
, Setareh Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

2015     
Whatever one collects – GASTUAFTRITT
, Galerie Knoell, Basel, Switzerland
Horizonte, arco iris y horizonte
, Bilbao Arte – centro de arte contemporaneo, Bilbao, Spain

2014
o lala, von was für glänzenden liebhabereien ich träumte
, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany

2013
Falkenrot Preis 2013
, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2012
Geometrie in LD
, Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, Germany

2011
Maki Na Kamura
, Museum Haus Kasuya, Yokosuka, Japan

2009
PML
, Schlechtriem Brothers, Berlin, Germany

2008
le desespoir du peintre
, Jiri Svetka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

2006
FOLGEAUFTRITT
, Julius Werner Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2003
Maki Na Kamura
, Galerie Noah, Augsburg, Germany

Selected group exhibitions

2024
I’m Not Afraid of Ghosts, 
Palazzo Tiepolo Passi, Venice, Italy
Accrochage,
Michael Werner Gallery, Athens, Greece
Each Work
, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria

2022
Peeping Tom
, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

2020
From Minimal to Expressionism
, Setareh Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Salon des éditions
, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Otegem, Belgium                

2019    
Für Christa
, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

2018
MAISON FORTE
, Revonnas, FR

2016
Biennale of Painting,
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Germany
Wolken/ Clouds,
Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich, Germany
Melancholia
, Galerie Knoell, Basel, Switzerland
East
, MDZ Gallery, Knokke, Belgium

2015
Harmonie und Umbruch
, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
German Promises, Ornis A. Gallery, Amsterdam

2014
Wet Paint
, Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, Germany

2013
Transcultural Narrations
, University Museum Gallery Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

2012
I am you and you are me, perhaps
, Galeria Silio, Santander, Spain

2011
Staffelei im Atelier – Landschaftsbilder, Schlechtiem Brothers, Berlin, Germany

2010
Crefelder Gesellschaft für Venezianische Malerei
, Galerie Boergmann, Krefeld, Germany
13aufZwölf
, Kunstverein Hörnum, Sylt, Germany
Premio Lissone 2010,
Museo darte contemporanea, Lissone, Italy

2009
Douboudoushi
, Museum Haus Kasuya, Yokosuka
Kunst bewegen
, Galerie Florian Trampler, Munich, Germany

2007
Von Pferden und Affen
, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany     

2006
Aug leisen Pfoten
, Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany

2004
Galerie de France, Paris, France

2002
MUSTER FRAU
, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, Germany
Three Generations at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
, mit Joseph Beuys, Immendorf, Museum Haus Kasuya, Yokosuka, Japan
Maki Na Kamura und Edger Saillen,
Galerie Triade, Barbizon, France

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