Motoko Dobashi

Born 1976 in Tokushima, Japan

Lives in Munich and Berlin


Completed a study of art in Japan, before continuing as a master-class pupil in 2007 under Markus Oehlen in the Munich academy of arts. Dobashi’s work reflects her bipolar cultural background:
taking a graphic or linear orientation from Japanese art, while borrowing from German art history through extracted and reinterpreted elements out of prints from Albrecht Dürer.


Graphic elements from computer games, street art and comic strips are composed into fantastic sceneries in which trees often play a central role. Dobashi was represented with wallpaintings in “Favoriten08" exhibited in Munich’s Museum Lenbachhaus and  in “Förderpreise 2009 der Landeshauptstadt München” in the Lothringer Halle and the Diozesanmuseum Freising. In addition, her works are in famous collections like the Pinakothek der Moderne, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and the Collection Südhausbau, Munich.



Motoko Dobashi, "Tempelruine #1", acryl on paper, 40 x 30 cm, 2008.