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


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

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


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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