Kazuki Koga

In the artist's words:

Kazuki Koga's artistic practice focuses on the figure that never looks at its creator, but is absorbed in its own comings and goings - at a picnic, on a rowing boat, in gardens or in conversation. Each scene has a quiet, peaceful quality and creates a longing for a summer's day in company. Small-format studies are initially created from memory and imagination; building on this, Koga creates large-format canvases in the studio, in which figures, light and color merge into densely composed snapshots. He works with oil and acrylic paints and occasionally lithography and risography to translate perception into a haptic and sensory experience.

Born in Tokyo, Koga studied printmaking before coming to Leipzig in 2019 to study painting and printmaking. Influential experiences under Christoph Ruckhäberle shape his compositions and subtle lighting, which lend atmosphere to his works. The pictures are small moments that linger in the memory and are captured on canvas.