We corially invite you to the opening on 17 July at 6 pm at the "Cabinet" of Kunsthalle Recklinghausen. 

Ayaka Terajima's sculptures remarkably bring together two strands of sculptural history: the Japanese Jōmon period (c. 14,000–1,000 BCE) and the question of how negative space can be represented. At first glance, however, her clay works appear as friendly, whimsical beings that seem to have wandered into the gallery from the worlds of science fiction or fairy tales.

Japanese artist Ayaka Terajima (*1987) first studied ceramics at the Tokyo University of the Arts. In 2023, she graduated in Sculpture and Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (AdBK), where she studied in the class of Nicole Wermers. In 2024, she received the Bavarian Art Prize for the Promotion of the Arts.

Since 2022, the exhibition series In the Cabinet has presented emerging artistic positions each summer by artists shortly after graduating from an art academy.