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Yuka Kashihara was born in the prefecture of Hiroshima, Japan in 1980. She 
graduated from Musashino Art University in 2006, majoring in Japanese
 Painting. In 2006, she moved to Germany and enrolled in the Academy of 
Visual Arts (HGB) Leipzig in 2007. Kashihara held a solo exhibition 
"Shakkei" at Bauhaus Dessau (curated by Torsten Blume) in 2008, and 
her first solo exhibition at Tomio Koyama Gallery in 2011.
Kashihara creates rich and deep colors by laying thin layers of oil 
paint in the technique of Japanese painting, which she learned during her studies in Japan. In the world of her work, existing sceneries and imaginary inner spaces are woven
 together. Kashihara developed such practices after leaving Japan and working in Germany. Another area of interest is focused on the subject of “distances”; physical distance
 between Germany and Japan, emotional distance with people and both 
cultures, and the distance inside of herself as Japanese and her living 
in Germany. Experiencing these “distances” has turned her motif 
such as the cave, the mountain, and the lake into the expressions that convey her
 deep reflexivity.　

1980　Born in Hiroshima, Japan
2006　Musashino Art University, Department of Japanese Painting, Japan
　　Moved to Germany
2007　Enrolled in Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Germany
2009　Enrolled in the upper-level course at Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Germany （studies under Prof. Annette Schroeter）
Currently studying in the same course

2012
TKG Editions Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

2011
“Amid” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2008
"Shakkei" Bauhaus Dessau, Dessau, Germany

2012
“VOCA '12” The Ueno Royal Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

2011
“Mind the Gap”, Specks Hof, Leipzig, Germany


2008
Galerie Burgstrasse, Halle, Germany


2007
Galerie Burgstrasse, Halle, Germany