Luka Fineisen
print" As an artist, I can fill the Pacific Ocean with honey or get rid of gravity altogether".
Luka Fineisen pursues a research around space, matter and body, while making figures appear, which is an exciting approach for her. She creates a universe that plays on contrasts, often all in black and white, both light and heavy, tender and raw. The one who enters becomes himself a figure of this space in which his body confronts the soft and the strange.
By imagining floating, melting worlds, the artist wishes to make the impossible possible and to capture above all a moment of change, a matter in transformation, and thus to preserve them in order to seize the present moment so that it never disappears.
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Born in 1974, Offenburg, Germany
Lives and works in Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Few key dates
2006 Diplômée de l’École des Beaux-Arts de Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Allemagne.
2007-2009 Bourse de la Fondation Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Duisburg, Allemagne.
2012 Fluide parfait, installation in situ à La maison rouge, fondation antoine de galbert, Paris.
2013 Exposition Transfer Korea – NRW, Musée National d'Art Contemporain, Séoul, Corée du Sud.
2014 Première exposition personnelle à la Galerie Papillon, Extracts of Glamour.
2018 Participe au Art Festival Watou, Belgique
2019 Instant of change, deuxième solo show à la Galerie Papillon.
2021 Réalise l'œuvre Awakening pour Les Extatiques, Paris-La Défense
Recent presse
"Luka Fineisen likes to defy the laws of gravity, playing with the materials she models to her heart's content." Léa Amaros in Le Quotidien de l'art, July 2021
"The German-Born artist infuses her art with a childlike lyrkism. Her gravity-defying works are varied in their materials. Her works challenge what we know to be true." Susan Michals in The Wallstreet journal, October 2013
Solo exhibitions
2019
Instants of change, Galerie Papillon, Paris
Mission drift I, Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf, Germany
Mission drift II, Kunstverein, Leverkusen, Germany
2015
Smoke and Mirrors, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Systems of desire, Libeskind-Bau, Kö Bogen, Düsseldorf, Germany
2014
Parcours Saint Germain des Près, Boutique Eres, Paris
Fluide parfait, La maison rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris
Réservoir, Vitrine de l'enseigne Galeries Lafayette, Paris
Many particle systems, Goethe Institut, Paris
Phase transitions, Hosfelt gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2011
Foam-installation, Ãglise Saint Nicolas, Wolbeck, Germany
Unpaarig, NRW Landesvertretung, Berlin, Germany
2010
Katharsis, Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf, Germany
Sublimationen, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
Flüssig-kristalline Phasen, Kunstfonds Kunstraum, Bonn, Germany
Hot Thoughts, Kunstverein Küelnberg, Cologne, Germany
2009
Melt and Swap, Generali, Cologne, Germany
Suprafluid, Galerie k4, Munich, Germany
2008
Flutung, Frischzelle Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany
Frozen, Galeries des RWE-Tower, Dortmund, Germany
Ergänzung, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany
2006
Luka Fineisen, Gallery k4, Munich, Germany
2005
Luka Fineisen, KfW Bankengruppe, Bonn, Germany
2002
Debut, Kunstverein Offenburg, Offenburg, Germany
2001
Lanbrodura. Ausstellungsprojekt John Doe, Hoffeldstreet, Düsseldorf, Germany
Group exhibitions
2022
Experience Pommery #16 : RÊVERIES, Domaine Pommery, Reims
2021
Des mondes à part, Galerie Papillon, Paris
L'Art en plein air, Festival Les Extatiques, Paris-La Défense
2018
Sammlung mit Losen Enden - akt 2, Kunsthaus NRW, Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany
2017
Sammlung mit Losen Enden - akt 1, Kunsthaus NRW, Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany
198920072016, Galerie Papillon, Paris
Blancs d'hiver, Galerie Papillon, Paris
2014
Schaufenster Breuninger en collaboration avec la Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
Der entfesselte Blick, MARTHA Herford Musée, Germany
2013
2012
Gold and ashes, Museum Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
Twilight Seoul, Honigbrot, Cologne, Germany
Twilight Seoul, Le Studio, Seoul, South Korea
Semi permeable, Hosfelt Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Dot.Systems: From pointillism to Pixel, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Drifting edges, Atelierfrankfurt, Francfort, Germany
2011
Drifting edges, Kunst und Gewerbeverein, Ratisbonne, Germany
Einfluss: 6 from Düsseldorf, Hosfelt Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Unpaarig, Landesvertretung NRW, Berlin, Germany
Sunbeam in a glasshouse, Ancien Consulat général des Etats-Unis, Düsseldorf, Germany
2010
Einfluss: 8 from Düsseldorf, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.
Artgoesgreen, Praterinsel, Munich, Germany
Heimat und Sachkunde, Tip Top Stop Wundermarkt, Cologne, Germany
Liquid area, Flottmann - Hallen, Herne, Germany
Rundblick 2010 - Eine Ausstellung zur richtigen Zeit am richtigen Ort, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany
New Rhineland. The Post-ironic Generation, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Baking-house, Biennale des nouveaux talents, Porter-house Kaufhof, Cologne, Germany
2009
The end of the Interior, West Germany, Berlin, Germany
Collaboration_, Motorcade / Flashparade, Bristol, England
Luka Fineisen - Sandra Voets, DOK25A, Düsseldorf, Germany
Wenn Fürderung ist, ist eigentlich Vollgas, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
2008
90 Grad is Hart, Simultanhalle Köln, Cologne, Germany
Mini Bar, Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany
Home bound, Fondation Raum sylt quelle, Sylt, Germany
Works On / Off Paper, Gallery k4, Munich, Germany
2007
Kunstpreis Junger Westen, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany
Max-Pechstein-Förderpreis, Collection d'art du musée national de Zwickau, Zwickau, Germany
Von Getriebeöl, Perversan und Showtreppen, VdR, Düsseldorf, Germany
Hotel Kerberos, Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany
2006
Double take, Parkhaus im Malkastenpark, Düsseldorf, Germany
Klasse Kamp 1974-2006, Düsseldorf Kunthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
Dear Friedrich..., Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
2005
Buffet, Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany
2004
Bergischer art award, Museum Baden, Solingen, Germany
Trendwände, Art room Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
2003
Sukûn, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2001
Bilbao-Arte Collectiva, Bilbao-Arte, Bilbao, Spain
2000
Die geniale, Studio Schulstreet, Münster, Germany
Wellenauflauf, Galerie Dr. Ulrike Rathert, Minden, Germany
1998
Drive-Through, Marshall Arts, Memphis, U.S.A.
1997
Horn Island, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, U.S.A.
Public Commission
Oszillation, public sculpture, Everswinkel, Germany
Residences and grants
2011-2013
Transfer NRW-South Korea, Seoul, South Korea
2009
Fondation Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany
2007-2009
Bourse de la Fondation Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Duisburg, Germany
2007
Max-Pechstein-art-award, Zwickau, Germany
Résidence au Kunst:raum sylt quelle, Sylt, Germany
ADO - art-award of the art-academy, Düsseldorf, Germany
2006
Bourse Metro-Stiftung, sculpture-park, Düsseldorf, Germany
2005/06
DHCS - Residency at Kunstverein, Düsseldorf, Germany
2001
Residency at the Art Center Bilbao-Arte, Bilbao, Spain
2000-2005
Scholarship for talented students, Cusanuswerk, Bonn, Germany
1998
Bourse Nathan Stainberg, Memphis, U.S.A.
1996
Residency in Chicago and Vermont, U.S.A.
Bourse du mérite, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, U.S.A.
Teaching
2012
Maître de conférence en sculpture, Université de Chung-Ang, Séoul, Corée du Sud
2010
Maître de conférence en espace et installation, HGB Leipzig, Leipzig, Allemagne
Education
1999-2005 Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Allemagne (Professeurs. Fritz Schwegler and Irmin Kamp)