Ryo Koike



ABOUT

Ryo Koike is a Japanese self-taught painter based in Berlin.

His artistic practice entails a translation of inner worlds, which include emotional, preconscious and translucid realities as well as charming arrangements and figurations His artistic practice permeates preconscious realms, fairy tales and the emotional movement of mind that translates into surreal landscapes and fusions that combine beings of this world and that of the supernatural.

The painting itself becomes a shift gesture in which the subject dissolves, and the paper absorbs the painter as if he were the essence of fluidity, temperature and colour. A dark, enchanted and multi-layered world is interspersed with recurring themes and motifs, each signifying distinct worlds within the body of Ryo’s work.

Within its frameworks, fantasy and reality coalesce – as they spark, transfix and interweave collective yet deeply personal imagination.



CONTACT

ryokoike23@gmail.com



 
SOLO SHOW

2024

Labyrinth / Cazul101, Bucharest, Romania

2023

Tempest / MOLT, Berlin, Germany 


GROUP SHOW

2024

Heartbeaten / Šachta, Prague, Czech Republic

2024

VESSELS / CABIN, Berlin, Germany

2023

Lullaby for the parched’n shattered / Galerie A.M.180, Prague, Czech Republic 

2022

THE FAIREST 01: Open Your Eyes Again / Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany

2021

Direkte Auction x THE FAIREST / Postbank Tower, Berlin, Germany

2021

Here for Now, Possibily Always / Projektraum 145, Berlin, Germany

2021

Teaser 02 care about every body / DZIALDOV, Berlin, Germany

2019

PAINTINGS FOR THE TEMPLE OF LOVE / Cob Gallery, London, United Kingdom