Kimoto Keiko - Artist of interest Sept 2008

Text by Mariko Mikami

Kimoto Keiko dancing ather opening at "la condition japonaise" Peter Grafwallner (C)

Kimoto Keiko, who studied fine-art under Lother Baumgarten at the University of Art (Universtät der Künste: UdK) from 2001 to 2006, is a young japanese painter, living in Berlin since 1999. In 2006 she won the Walter Hellenthal Prize for Painting, that is awarded to the distinguished student in the same university. She is creating her art-works at her apartment in Prenzlauerberg which is her atelier and home.