Kei Takemura

Japanese | 1975

Kei Takemura is a Japanese Asian Modern & Contemporary artist who was born in 1975. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo have featured Kei Takemura's work in the past.Kei Takemura's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 32 USD to 459 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2006 the record price for this artist at auction is 459 USD for UNTITLED (BOY AND GIRL IN BRAIDS), sold at Waddington's in 2018. Kei Takemura has been featured in articles for , The Brooklyn Rail and . The most recent article is written for ARTnews in March 2023.

At Auction

Notable Lots

left: renovated mag-cup 1; right: renovated mag-cup 2 - Kei Takemura

left: renovated mag-cup 1; right: renovated mag-cup 2 ,2006

By Kei Takemura

Detail: Invitation from 6 years ago and now - Kei Takemura

Detail: Invitation from 6 years ago and now ,2006

By Kei Takemura

M.S.鈥橲 DOORKNOB

By Kei Takemura

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Recent Auction Results

Japanese b.1975 - Stump and Leaves in M.P.'s Garden - Kei Takemura

Japanese b.1975 - Stump and Leaves in M.P.'s Garden ,1975

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Stump and Leaves in M.P.'s Garden - Kei Takemura

Stump and Leaves in M.P.'s Garden ,1975

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Stump and Leaves in M.P's Garden

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Past Exhibitions

Collection 2: Undo, Redo

National Museum of Art, Osaka (Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan)

Osaka | Japan

Feb 15,2025 - Jun 01,2025

Highlights + Relations

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Hiroshima | Japan

Aug 24,2024 - Dec 08,2024

A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Koto-ku | Tokyo | Japan

Aug 03,2024 - Nov 10,2024

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Articles

ARTnews 09/03/2023

Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas has named the 90 galleries that will take part in its upcoming 2023 edition, which is scheduled to run May 12鈥�14, with a preview day on May 11.

Hyperallergic 01/08/2020

In the face of climate change, economic and political convulsions, and the coronavirus pandemic, it is our modes of living and of occupying our planet that we must urgently modify.

Urban Sensitivity: Seven Contemporary Japanese Artists

The Brooklyn Rail 01/11/2009

M Wakasa Presents at Gallery Onetwentyeight October 15 鈥� November 8, 2009 Fuck the Furries. This show goes one better. If the Furries were sexual

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Coverage

鈥� ..Attempting to deliver her memory through the creative act, Takemura transforms feelings of intimacy to an objective invention through an act of stitching... 鈥�
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Dominik Mersch Gallery

鈥� ..Takemura is interested in the sense of place that can be generated in the course of a short stay of the duration of a guest appearance; the possibility of a home away from home... 鈥�
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Galerie Alexandra Saheb

鈥� ..Takemura focuses on the everyday movements made within the apartment... 鈥�
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Galerie Alexandra Saheb

鈥� ..Takemura uses embroidery as a channel for recalling her memories of the past... 鈥�
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Dominik Mersch Gallery

鈥� ..Reflecting on the correlation between a viewpoint and an environment, the artist evokes universal memories through her personal reminiscence... 鈥�
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Dominik Mersch Gallery