Lucia Koch

Using photographs, video, and architectural interventions and installations, Lucia Koch's artistic endeavors shed light on typically neglected facets of environments.

Biography of Lucia Koch

Lucia Koch was born in 1966 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. She actively engaged in the collective project Arte Construtora from 1992 to 1996, utilizing various spaces such as houses, parks, and an island across different Brazilian cities.

From 2004 to 2006, she dedicated herself to establishing JAMAC – Jardim Miriam Arte Clube, a collaborative art space. She also played a pivotal role as one of the founding artists of the project ali:leste, an art school established in 2018 to mentor artists in the outskirts of São Paulo.

In addition to her artistic pursuits, she serves as a professor at the University of São Paulo.

Her recent solo exhibitions include "Córte" at Nara Roesler in Rio de Janeiro (2023), "Double Trouble" at Palais d’Iena in Paris (2022), "Depois de Tudo" at Nara Roesler in São Paulo (2021), "Propaganda" at Instituto Inhotim and Brumadinho in Minas Gerais (2021), "Regressão" at Clareira, MAC – Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo in São Paulo (2021), and many more.

Lucia Koch's works have been featured in numerous group exhibitions held at various galleries and museums worldwide, including Galeria do Torreão Nascente de la Cordoaria in Lisbon, MAAT in Lisbon, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco in Vila Paloma, Phoenix Art Museum in Phoenix, Nara Roesler in New York, Christopher Grimes Gallery in Santa Monica, Mendes-Wood in São Paulo, among other esteemed venues. 

Currently, the artist lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. 

Lucia Koch's Art Style

Lucia Koch's artworks frequently delve into explorations of space and its potentialities, aiming to provide avenues for comprehending, experiencing, and inhabiting it. Through establishing a dialogue between her artistic creations and the architectural elements within their environment, Koch reinterprets and intervenes with aspects such as materiality, light, textures, colors, and other tangential lines.

Utilizing light filters and textiles, Koch manipulates light and its chromatic interplay, inducing contrasts between interior and exterior, transparency and opacity, thereby reshaping the essence of space.

Since 2001, Lucia Koch has been capturing photographs of the interiors of cardboard boxes and empty packaging, transforming them into architectural-like structures. By also manipulating perspectives, these images, when displayed on a wall, appear to expand the existing space. Koch further explores scale, magnifying typically small objects to a monumental size, suggesting inhabitability and prompting contemplation on the factors that define space and challenge our spatial perceptions and experiences.