Takashi Murakami (born 1962 in Tokyo)

The artist Takashi Murakami, born in Tokyo in 1992, studied Japanese “Nihonga painting”, which is cultivated in the country’s tradition, at the renowned “Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music” until 1993.

As a contemporary, Takashi Murakami recognized that his imagery lay more within “otaku culture”, popular manga and anime imagery. Under the generic term POKU (for pop and otaku), the artist quickly found his own style, which he dubbed “Superflat”.

In Takashi Murakamis works we find what one might call a “corporate design”, an unmistakable style of the time that characterizes his paintings, sculptures and graphics.
Clear outlines, trendy selection of motifs, no shadows or artificial light and shadow tightening, this is how Murakami creates his own pictorial worlds that magically attract everyone’s attention and imprint themselves on the memory of our pictorial world.

The works of art by the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami are appreciated by collectors worldwide

His brightly colored and trendy graphics have won over the international art scene. Coming from digital art and practical art from Japanese comic culture, Murakami’s artworks soon established themselves as international “high art”, so that the artist, with his colourful, clear artworks, became one of the most sought-after artists of contemporary art.

Takashi Murakami’s works are exhibited in prestigious museums and galleries around the world, including the Tate Modern in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The May 2008 issue of Time magazine named Japanese artist Takashi Murakami one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Takashi Murakami lives and works in Japan (Saitama, Asaka) and in the United States of America (Brooklyn – New York)

Exhibitions by Takashi Murakami (selection)

2001: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
2002: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
2003: Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
2007: Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), United States
2008: MMK Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt, Germany
2009: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain
2010: Palace of Versailles, France
2017 Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway

2025 – July 1 to September 16, 2025 – Galerie Jeanne München – Cabinet exhibition with works by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami – Galerie Jeanne, Munich
2025 – September 2025 to February 2026 – Sprengel Museum Hannover – Exhibition title “Niki. Kusama. Murakami. Love You For Infinity” – featuring works by Niki de Saint Phalle, Yayoi Kusama, and Takashi Murakami

From July 1 to September 16, 2025 – cabinet exhibition featuring works by the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami

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