Mariko Saito

Japanese painter, born in Tokyo in 1979 and based in Paris since 2002.
Mariko Saito has presented her work several times at Galerie van de Loo Projekte in Munich, including exhibitions in dialogue with the CoBrA movement.

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SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS (selected)

2017 — Galerie van de Loo Projekte, Rencontre 4, duo exhibition with Heiko Herrmann, Munich, Germany
2017 — Galerie vorn und oben / Benjamin Fleig, Baka-Tensai, duo exhibition with Anya Janssen, Eupen, Belgium
2016 — Galerie Klaus Lea, duo exhibition with Harald Bjoernsgard, Munich, Germany
2014 — Galerie von der Milwe, YES NO, Aachen, Germany

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)

2026 — Museum of Roadside Art, Collection of Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Tokyo, Japan
2025 — Galerie van de Loo Projekte, OVERpainting, Munich, Germany
2023 — Galerie van de Loo Projekte, CoBrA meets Mariko Saito, Munich, Germany
2022 — Galerie Raum für Gäste, 24 Künstler – 24 Multiples, Aachen, Germany
2019 — Galerie Martin Kudlek, Franz Burkhardt: Eigenbau und Stehverzehr, Cologne, Germany
2016 — Galerie von der Milwe, Danke! Danke!, Aachen, Germany
2010 — Le Bon Marché, Collaboration with La Prestic Ouiston, Paris, France

 

LIVE PAINTING / PERFORMANCES

2023 — Galerie van de Loo Projekte, live painting in the gallery window, Munich, Germany
2023 — Uniqlo, live painting in the store window, Paris, France
2020 — Galerie Raum für Gäste, live painting in the gallery window, Aachen, Germany

 

SYMPOSIUMS

2014, 2015, 2016 — Pertolzhofener Kunstdingertage, curated by Heiko Herrmann, Pertolzhofen, Germany

 

PUBLICATIONS / PRESS

2023 — “Prickelnd wie Champagner,” press article on the exhibition, Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 12, 2023, p. R10.
2023 — 35. OPEN ART — Start in den Münchner Kunstherbst 2023, exhibition catalogue, Initiative Münchner Galerien zeitgenössischer Kunst, Munich, Germany.
2017 — Mariko Saito — Baka-Tensai, exhibition catalogue, text by Heiko Herrmann, Galerie vorn und oben / Benjamin Fleig, Eupen, Belgium.