Maki Na Kamura’s work interrogates the relationships between historical traditions of painting and the present. She describes her work as “Caspar David Friedrich plus Hokusai minus Romanticism minus Japonisme.” Her practice consists of a collecting, sitting with, and dismantling of art historical structures and conventions to make something new.
Na Kamura has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Europe and in Japan. Solo museum exhibitions have been held at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle, Belgium (2017); Osthaus Museum Hagen in Hagen, Germany (2017); Bilbao Arte – centro de arte contemporáneo in Bilbao, Spain (2015); and Oldenburger Kunstverein in Oldenberg, Germany (2014). Na Kamura was awarded the Falkenrot Prize in 2013. Her work is in the collection of Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France. Na Kamura lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
oil, tempera on canvas
210 x 160 cm |
82 3/4 x 63 in.