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PROFILE

Yuko Kikuchi  菊池優子

Porcelain Painting Artist, Japanese.

Resident in Stuttgart, Germany.

1977 Born in Tokyo, Japan

2000 Keio University, Bachelor or Laws

2008 Trained for paintings by Uwe Geissler and Margret Pitzler in Germany

Expositions

2013 Art Space Pamina Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Gallery 21 rue Debelleyme, Paris, France
2019 The English Tearoom, Stuttgart, Germany 

2022 Paris, France Maison&Objet

2023 Le Méridien Stuttgart, Germany

Yuko Kikuchi Designer, Artist

Press and Interviews

I spent my childhood moving around in Tokyo, New York and Los Angeles. Those times gave me to meet people from different background and enjoy the enjoy the cultural differences. At the same time those experiences gave me to reflect myself as a Japanese born in a traditional beautiful culture. Country where people appreciate fine delicate sense of beauty.

After graduating an university, I started working as an accountant and controller in a global engineering and electronic company. While having the valuable and fruitful experience in these careers I also started to search for something I can originally create and dedicate myself as a life work, and bring joy to other people. I recalled from my childhood, and realized that I had great liking to detailed handcrafts, decoration and arts which are delicate and senstive. It was like I was on a journey, seeking the right way to express myself. I started to look into botanical art, learn jewelry design, and other decoration crafts anything that interests me.

After those certain period of time, I finally met the porcelain painting art in 2008. Since then, my activity as being a painter has started. As soon as I started learning porcelain painting, I was eager to learn the beautiful handcraft professionally. The passion even driven me to challenge the most intensive professional course given from one of the most famous porcelain artist and teacher, late Mr.Uwe Geissler, who used to be a Meissen painter. Eventually I became the first and last student which he had given the personnel lesson teaching the very basic skills and choosing materials through to the final details of how to develop the styles.

At the same time I have learned the gold painting skill from Ms.Margret Pitzler, who used to be a painter in Furstenburg.

Yuko Kikuchi Designer, Artist
Yuko Kikuchi Desginer, Artist

Late Mr.Uwe Geissler. In his Studio near Cologne, year 2008

Ms.Margret Pitzler. Near Cologne, year 2008

After coming back from Germany, I have started my original art work. With the back ground as being Japanese and learning European traditional art and culture, my concept on art pieces are to harmonize the both culture. My origin comes from the Japanese culture that people appreciate the nature and sensitive beauty in heart of people, yet the designs are also based on the delicate European sense of art.

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