Aiko Tezuka

Aiko Tezuka explores weaving and unraveling as a way to understand interwoven surfaces. While referencing and appropriating cultural objects Tezuka reconfigures the fabric of things oscillating between the process of deconstruction and construction. Her works make visible an object’s current state of being while simultaneously detangling its proceeding states of metamorphosis.

Aiko Tezuka (b. Tokyo, 1976) currently, lives and works between Berlin and Tokyo. Tezuka received an MA in painting from Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan, and a Ph.D. in painting from the Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany; and Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyōgo Japan. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China; Gegenwartskunst, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan; Textiel Museum Tilburg, Netherlands; and Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich, Switzerland among others. Her work is included in the collections of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, South Korea; Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan; The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and The Art Museum in NorthTrøndelag (Kunstmuseet Nord-Trøndelag), Namsos, Norway.