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Yoshiyuki Miura (*1958)
01.02.2026 - 12.04.2026
Yoshiyuki Miura is coming to Riegel – and is bringing a whole waterfall with him. The exceptional Japanese artist, twice winner of the international André-Evard-Prize within 15 years and most recently winner of the 7th André-Evard-Prize, is now celebrating his first solo exhibition at Galerie Messmer.
Miura’s works are not quiet pictures for the background – they draw you into the room with force, rhythm and meditative power. He works with unusual materials such as steel, rice, lenses, beans and light to create fascinating, poetic spatial and wall objects.
His famous waterfall in particular looks like a natural phenomenon on steel: a visual thundering, somewhere between Japanese aesthetics, inner peace and raw energy.
Made from countless stainless steel pins, it not only impresses with its monumental presence, but also marks a special moment in the history of Galerie Messmer: at 6.60 meters long and 1.80 meters high , it is the largest work ever exhibited in the gallery.
With this rice painting made from around 10,000 grains of rice, he won first place at the 7th International André-Evard Prize in 2025, which can also be experienced in this exhibition with a new presentation.
In addition to the material of rice, he also uses beans and lentils, thus referring to the cultural roots of the East, while the three-dimensional arrangement assigns his works to Western art. This creates a dialog between Eastern material symbolism and Western formal language.
Miura’s spherical works made of stainless steel wires and light tie in with the quiet materiality of the rice painting, transforming the theme into a spatial and light-based form.
Miura’s spherical works made of light and thousands of individually colored stainless steel pins offer a very special symbiosis of light, color and materiality. For a single light object, the artist uses around 3,000 to 4,000 stainless steel pins to create a floating, spherical structure. The interplay of light, color and material dissolves fixed contours and actively incorporates the space into the work. The spheres appear both technically precise and poetic at the same time , thus thematizing the tension between order, movement and immaterial appearance.
The exhibition offers the opportunity to experience Miura’s multi-layered work in its quiet intensity, in which calm and inner strength condense into a palpable energy, and to enter a space that invites reflection and personal interpretation. Let us embark on this unique journey around the world together.
past exhibitions
André Evard (1876 – 1972)
30.11. – 25.01.2026
Chrisitane Grimm – Floating spaces
29.06. – 14.09.2025
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