Luka Fineisen
Luka Fineisen (*1974 Offenburg) studied sculpture at the Memphis College of Art in the USA from 1996-98 and fine art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1999-2005 under Fritz Schwegler and Irmin Kamp, among others. She has had solo exhibitions and installations at the Folkwang Museum Essen, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven and the maison rouge in Paris and has taken part in numerous group exhibitions, including at the MARTa Herford, the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg Foundation, the Kunstmuseum Bonn, the Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen, the Wilhelm-Hack Museum Ludwigshafen and the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Luka Fineisen is represented by Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf.
Luka Fineisen lives and works in Los Angeles USA and Cologne.
http://www.lukafineisen.de/
http://www.galerie-pfab.com/de/home
Scholarships:
2011-13 Transfer Korea-NRW, Seoul, South Korea
2007-09 Wilhelm Lehmbruck Scholarship Duisburg
2000-05 Artist grant from the Cusanuswerk, Bonn
English Version
Situated within a small area, the barely visible yet official border between independently operating areas of responsibility forms the starting point for Luka Fineisen's conceptual work. A seemingly non-functional basin on the Frankfurt side in bright turquoise forms the visual basis for the three-dimensional drawings of floral (tree) branches on the Offenbach side. In the direction of flow of the former border river at the Grenzgraben, which today runs mostly underground, an artificial-organic object, visible from afar, grows along the depression, taking up and continuing the color of the basin. The obvious montage of her objects stands in apparent contrast to the natural vegetation of the site and makes us forget that this nature is also created and designed by human hands. Fineisen plays with the poles of the visible and the invisible and also creates an optical bridge between two separate areas, the crossing of which the passer-by usually does not notice.