Introduction

Mika Ninagawa est l’une des photographes les plus connues et les plus prolifiques du Japon. Ses sujets comprennent des fleurs, des poissons rouges et des portraits de stars issues de la culture pop japonaise. Son esthétique est fantastique, colorée et riche en tonalité. Les spectaculaires photos en technicolor de Ninagawa sont devenues sa marque de fabrique internationale. Elle présente chacune de ses images avec une vitalité à couper le souffle. Brillamment illuminées, elles ressortent comme d’aveuglants bijoux. Les intenses couleurs néon amplifient sa palette habituelle de rose, vert, bleu et orange.

Mika Ninagawa a plublié plus de trente-cinq livres de photographie, collaboré avec les musiciennes Björk et Alicia Keys et fait ses débuts en tant que réalisatrice en 2007 avec le long-métrage Sakuran. Sa rétrospective Mika Ninagawa : Fleurs terrestres, couleurs célestes à la Galerie d’art municipale de l’Opéra de Tokyo en 2010 fut l’exposition la plus visitée jamais tenue au Japon. L’œuvre de Ninagawa se retrouve dans de nombreux musées et collections privées.

Christina Wendenburg

Curriculum vitæ

1972 Naissance à Tokyo, Japon

Distinctions

1996	Grand Prize, 9th Shashin Hitotsubo Ten 13th New Cosmos of Photography, Canon
1998	Encourage Award, 9th Konica Award
2001	The 26th Kimura Ihei Award, Asahi Shimbun Publishing Co.
2006	Ohara Museum of Art Prize

Collections

Collections publiques :
UBS Art Collection Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto
Ohara Museum of Art
Toyota Contemporary Art Collection
SURUGA BANK
The JAPIGOZZI Collection
Huis Marseille

Expositions

Expositions (seule)
2013	Lucky Star Ninagawa Men ＆ Women, Space O ; Omotesando Hills B3F, Tokyo, Japon Hawaii Paradise By Mika Ninagawa, DFS Galleria Waikiki, 1 Floor Gallery, Hawaii, USA Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japon
2012	Urasoe Art Museum, Okinawa, Japon Plant a Tree, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japon Mika Ninagawa, 8/ Art Gallery/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Japon
2011	Canon Gallery, Tokyo, Japon Flower & Goldfish, Mot / Arts, Taipei, Taïwan noir & Sakuran, TIVAC: Taiwan International Visual Arts Center, Taipei, Taïwan
2010	Liquid Dreams & Acid Bloom, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas Flower Addict, Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima, Japon noir, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japon Mika Ninagawa: Eye of Gyre, en collaboration avec la publication RIZZOLI, Omotesando Gyre, Tokyo, Japon
2009	Liquid Dreams, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Allemagne Flower Addict, Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto, Kyoto, Japon
2008	Mika Ninagawa: Glamorous Charity Nude; photo exhibition for Pink Ribbon, Omotesando Hills West-side R-Studio, Tokyo, Japan und Herbis Plaza Ent 3th floor, Osaka, Japon Mika’s, Dreaming Theater, Parco Factory, Shibuya Tokyo, Japan, Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima, Japon et Beijing Art Now Gallery, Shanghai, Chine Tournée à travers le Japon : Mika Ninagawa : Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japon Iwate Museum of Art, Iwate, Japon Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japon Otani Memorial Art Museum Nishinomiya City, Hyogo, Japon The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japon Helene Nyborg, Valby, Danemark Erotic Teacher X X X Yuka by Mika, Mika Ninagawa Shashinkan: Kyoto Gokurakudo 2F, Kyoto, Japon
2007	Mika Ninagawa Exhibition, Arndt & Partner Berlin, Berlin, Allemagne Mika Ninagawa, Colette, Paris, France girls‘ holiday!, Lapnet Ship, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japon Celine meets Mika Ninagawa, Isetan Main Building The Stage, Tokyo, Japon Everlasting Flowers, Galleria Micia, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japon girls’ holiday, Parco Shizuoka, Square6, Shizuoka, Japon Ninagawa Woman, Omotesando Hills Space [O:], Harajuku, Tokyo, Japon
2006	Everlasting Flowers 1, Tokyo Wonder Site Sibuya, Tokyo, Japon Everlasting Flowers 2, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
2005	Mika Ninagawa Photo Exhibition in London 2005, eclectic, Londres, Royaume-Uni floating yesterday, Gallery Speak For, Tokyo, Japon
2004	Tournée à travers le Japon : Mika over the Rainbow Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan  Hep Hall, Osaka, Japon Hiroshima Parco, Hiroshima, Japon Nagoya Takashimaya, Aichi, Japon Artium, Fukuoka, Japon photographs 2001-2004, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2003	Acid Bloom, NADiff, Tokyo / gallery ROCKET, Tokyo, Japon Tournée : Liquid Dreams Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japon Nagoya Parco Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, Japon
2002	Ever Holding My Ocean, NADiff, Tokyo, Japon like a peach, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo / Laroret Museum Harajuku, Tokyo / Laforet Museum, Matsuyama, Ehime, Japon Mika Ninagawa at Issey Miyake Aoyama, Issei Miyake Store, Aoyama, Tokyo, Japon
2001	Maroyaka-na-dokugeshiki, Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo / Nagoya Parco Gallery, Aichi, Japon
2000	Pink Rose Suite, Rocket's Tokyo, Japon Tournée : Sugar and Spice Daikanyama Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japon Tank Gallery, Osaka, Japon
1999	Baby Blue Sky, Konica Plaza, Tokyo, Japon Christmas at Isla Mujeres, NADiff, Tokyo, Japon French kiss, Rocket, Tokyo, Japon
1997	Walk3, Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japon
Expositions (collectives)
2013	Ohara Contemporary, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japon Towada Art Center 5th Anniversary - exhibition: flowers, Towada Art Center, around Central Shopping etc, Aomori, Japon Ginza Mitsukoshi × Tomio Koyama Gallery Art Selection, Ginza Mitsukoshi 8th Floor Gallery, Tokyo, Japon Why not live for Art? II - 9 collectors reveal their treasures, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
2012	Mika ＆ Hiroko Ninagawa, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japon Beauty – Flowers in Contemporary Photography, Tokyo Art Museum, Tokyo, Japon
2011	Temporary Exhibition : Art in an Office, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japon Japancongo, Le Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France Future Pass ー From Asia to the World, Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition ー la Biennale di Venezia, Abbazia di San Gregorio, Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana, Venise, Italie Cafe in Mito 2011, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japon
2010	In aller Munde / On the tip of everyone's tongue, The Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Allemagne Ninagawa Baroque / Extreme, NADiff A/P/A/R/T, Tokyo, Japon Tokyo Visualist, National Art Gallery Malaysia, Malaysie Summer Loves, Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas Very Fun Park: Contemporary Art from Taiwan, 2010, Very Very Good Something / Eslite Bookstore, Taipei, Taiwan
2009	Flowers and Landscape Claude Monet and Young Japanese Artists: Shinji Ohmaki, Mika Ninagawa, and Satoko Nachi, The Contemporary Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japon Medicine and Art; Imagining a Future for Life and Love, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Mori Tower, Tokyo, Japon
2008	The Masked Portrait, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA Japan! Culture + Hyper Culture, The Kennedy Center, Grand Foyer, Washington DC, USA Faithful Documents-Japanese Contemporary Photography, Aki Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Japan Now, Inter Alia Art Company, Corée Review / Preview : Japanese Photographs, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Allemagne
2007	Hitotubo, Guardian Garden, Ginza,Tokyo, Japon Space For Your Future, Museum Of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Kiyosumi, Tokyo, Japon
2006	treasure, Yokohama Civil Gallery Azamino, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japon Voca 2006, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japon Idol!, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japon Sakana No Sugata, The Museum of Art Ehime, Ehime, Japon
2005	Artists' Gardens - Botanical Recollections, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japon
2004	Harajuku Collabo - Apartment 2004, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japon Takarazuka: The Land Of Dreams, Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka/ Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
2003	Hitotsuboten 20th Anniversary: going 1992-2002, Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japon do hope for the future, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japon Topics on Happiness, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japon Disney Goods Laboratory Tokyo, Gallery CLASKA, Tokyo, Japon Keep In Touch. Positions In Japanese Photography, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Autriche take art collection 2003, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japon Okayama City Arts Festival 2003 – Love Planet, Ishii Elementary School, Okayama, Japon
2002	Tournée à travers le Japon : The Doraemon Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Asahikawa Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya Oita Art Museum, Oita Shimane Art Museum, Matsue, Shimane Akita Senshu Museum of Art, Akita Takaoka Art Museum, Takaoka, Toyama Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto Pingyao International Photo Festival, Pingyao Gucheng, Shanxi, Chine Futuring Power-Canon New Cosmos of Photography 10th Anniversary, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japon Tournée à travers le Japon : VERSUS EXHIBITION 02 Nakameguro Depot, Tokyo, Japon Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japon Nagoya Parco Gallery, Aichi, Japon
2001	Three Rooms, Epson Imaging Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
1997	Naked Eyes, Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japon Japanese New Generation Photographer, Colette, Paris, France

Expositions individuelles

2013	Lucky Star Ninagawa Men ＆ Women, Space O ; Omotesando Hills B3F, Tokyo, Japon Hawaii Paradise By Mika Ninagawa, DFS Galleria Waikiki, 1 Floor Gallery, Hawaii, USA Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japon
2012	Urasoe Art Museum, Okinawa, Japon Plant a Tree, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japon Mika Ninagawa, 8/ Art Gallery/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Japon
2011	Canon Gallery, Tokyo, Japon Flower & Goldfish, Mot / Arts, Taipei, Taïwan noir & Sakuran, TIVAC: Taiwan International Visual Arts Center, Taipei, Taïwan
2010	Liquid Dreams & Acid Bloom, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas Flower Addict, Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima, Japon noir, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japon Mika Ninagawa: Eye of Gyre, en collaboration avec la publication RIZZOLI, Omotesando Gyre, Tokyo, Japon
2009	Liquid Dreams, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Allemagne Flower Addict, Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto, Kyoto, Japon
2008	Mika Ninagawa: Glamorous Charity Nude; photo exhibition for Pink Ribbon, Omotesando Hills West-side R-Studio, Tokyo, Japan und Herbis Plaza Ent 3th floor, Osaka, Japon Mika’s, Dreaming Theater, Parco Factory, Shibuya Tokyo, Japan, Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima, Japon et Beijing Art Now Gallery, Shanghai, Chine Tournée à travers le Japon : Mika Ninagawa : Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japon Iwate Museum of Art, Iwate, Japon Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japon Otani Memorial Art Museum Nishinomiya City, Hyogo, Japon The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japon Helene Nyborg, Valby, Danemark Erotic Teacher X X X Yuka by Mika, Mika Ninagawa Shashinkan: Kyoto Gokurakudo 2F, Kyoto, Japon
2007	Mika Ninagawa Exhibition, Arndt & Partner Berlin, Berlin, Allemagne Mika Ninagawa, Colette, Paris, France girls‘ holiday!, Lapnet Ship, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japon Celine meets Mika Ninagawa, Isetan Main Building The Stage, Tokyo, Japon Everlasting Flowers, Galleria Micia, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japon girls’ holiday, Parco Shizuoka, Square6, Shizuoka, Japon Ninagawa Woman, Omotesando Hills Space [O:], Harajuku, Tokyo, Japon
2006	Everlasting Flowers 1, Tokyo Wonder Site Sibuya, Tokyo, Japon Everlasting Flowers 2, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
2005	Mika Ninagawa Photo Exhibition in London 2005, eclectic, Londres, Royaume-Uni floating yesterday, Gallery Speak For, Tokyo, Japon
2004	Tournée à travers le Japon : Mika over the Rainbow Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan  Hep Hall, Osaka, Japon Hiroshima Parco, Hiroshima, Japon Nagoya Takashimaya, Aichi, Japon Artium, Fukuoka, Japon photographs 2001-2004, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2003	Acid Bloom, NADiff, Tokyo / gallery ROCKET, Tokyo, Japon Tournée : Liquid Dreams Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japon Nagoya Parco Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, Japon
2002	Ever Holding My Ocean, NADiff, Tokyo, Japon like a peach, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo / Laroret Museum Harajuku, Tokyo / Laforet Museum, Matsuyama, Ehime, Japon Mika Ninagawa at Issey Miyake Aoyama, Issei Miyake Store, Aoyama, Tokyo, Japon
2001	Maroyaka-na-dokugeshiki, Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo / Nagoya Parco Gallery, Aichi, Japon
2000	Pink Rose Suite, Rocket's Tokyo, Japon Tournée : Sugar and Spice Daikanyama Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japon Tank Gallery, Osaka, Japon
1999	Baby Blue Sky, Konica Plaza, Tokyo, Japon Christmas at Isla Mujeres, NADiff, Tokyo, Japon French kiss, Rocket, Tokyo, Japon
1997	Walk3, Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japon

Expositions collectives

2013	Ohara Contemporary, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japon Towada Art Center 5th Anniversary - exhibition: flowers, Towada Art Center, around Central Shopping etc, Aomori, Japon Ginza Mitsukoshi × Tomio Koyama Gallery Art Selection, Ginza Mitsukoshi 8th Floor Gallery, Tokyo, Japon Why not live for Art? II - 9 collectors reveal their treasures, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
2012	Mika ＆ Hiroko Ninagawa, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japon Beauty – Flowers in Contemporary Photography, Tokyo Art Museum, Tokyo, Japon
2011	Temporary Exhibition : Art in an Office, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japon Japancongo, Le Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France Future Pass ー From Asia to the World, Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition ー la Biennale di Venezia, Abbazia di San Gregorio, Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana, Venise, Italie Cafe in Mito 2011, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japon
2010	In aller Munde / On the tip of everyone's tongue, The Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Allemagne Ninagawa Baroque / Extreme, NADiff A/P/A/R/T, Tokyo, Japon Tokyo Visualist, National Art Gallery Malaysia, Malaysie Summer Loves, Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas Very Fun Park: Contemporary Art from Taiwan, 2010, Very Very Good Something / Eslite Bookstore, Taipei, Taiwan
2009	Flowers and Landscape Claude Monet and Young Japanese Artists: Shinji Ohmaki, Mika Ninagawa, and Satoko Nachi, The Contemporary Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japon Medicine and Art; Imagining a Future for Life and Love, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Mori Tower, Tokyo, Japon
2008	The Masked Portrait, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA Japan! Culture + Hyper Culture, The Kennedy Center, Grand Foyer, Washington DC, USA Faithful Documents-Japanese Contemporary Photography, Aki Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Japan Now, Inter Alia Art Company, Corée Review / Preview : Japanese Photographs, Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Allemagne
2007	Hitotubo, Guardian Garden, Ginza,Tokyo, Japon Space For Your Future, Museum Of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Kiyosumi, Tokyo, Japon
2006	treasure, Yokohama Civil Gallery Azamino, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japon Voca 2006, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japon Idol!, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japon Sakana No Sugata, The Museum of Art Ehime, Ehime, Japon
2005	Artists' Gardens - Botanical Recollections, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japon
2004	Harajuku Collabo - Apartment 2004, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japon Takarazuka: The Land Of Dreams, Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka/ Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
2003	Hitotsuboten 20th Anniversary: going 1992-2002, Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japon do hope for the future, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japon Topics on Happiness, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japon Disney Goods Laboratory Tokyo, Gallery CLASKA, Tokyo, Japon Keep In Touch. Positions In Japanese Photography, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Autriche take art collection 2003, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japon Okayama City Arts Festival 2003 – Love Planet, Ishii Elementary School, Okayama, Japon
2002	Tournée à travers le Japon : The Doraemon Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Asahikawa Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya Oita Art Museum, Oita Shimane Art Museum, Matsue, Shimane Akita Senshu Museum of Art, Akita Takaoka Art Museum, Takaoka, Toyama Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto Pingyao International Photo Festival, Pingyao Gucheng, Shanxi, Chine Futuring Power-Canon New Cosmos of Photography 10th Anniversary, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japon Tournée à travers le Japon : VERSUS EXHIBITION 02 Nakameguro Depot, Tokyo, Japon Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japon Nagoya Parco Gallery, Aichi, Japon
2001	Three Rooms, Epson Imaging Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
1997	Naked Eyes, Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japon Japanese New Generation Photographer, Colette, Paris, France