{ Galerie Papillon }

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.

2006 Diplomed from Kunsthochschule Düsseldorf, Germany.
2007-2009 Wilhelm fundation’s grant Lehmbruck, Duisburg, Germany
2012 Fluide parfait, installation at La maison rouge, Fondation antoine de galbert, Paris
2013 Exhibition Transfer Korea – NRW, at the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Seoul, South Korea.
2014 First solo show at Galerie Papillon entitled Extracts of Glamour 
2019 Solo show Instant of change, at Galerie Papillon
2021 Realizes Awakening for Les Extatiques, Paris-La Défense

"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