Luisa Baldhuber | BEHNCKE GALLERY

Luisa Baldhuber (*1994)
The relationship between colour, space and light, and their influence on our perception of reality, is the main subject of Luisa Baldhuber’s art. Based on classical painting on canvas, she detaches colour surfaces from their two- dimensionality and links them to architecture or landscape in new ways. In so doing, Baldhuber not only attempts to break down spatial boundaries. Rather, she aims to sensitise our consciousness to the things we see and, on the basis of this, think we know. The results are independent spatial constructs that superimpose themselves over the original environment, allowing fictional and real dimensions to enter into reciprocal relationships with one another. Her first institutional solo exhibition Afterglow took place from 2024 to 2025 at Haus der Kunst Munich, a key global museum for contemporary arts, while Baldhuber was still studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 2025, she completed her studies in fine arts as a “Meisterschülerin” of Prof. Peter Kogler and participated in group exhibitions at Heldenreizer Contemporary, Behncke Gallery, 229 LAB Paris, Highlights International Art Fair Munich, Kunstarkaden Munich, and others. Baldhuber was awarded the CeU Art Award in 2025 and the Debutant Award of the Academy of Fine Arts in 2021. She was a recipient of the PS61 Studio Scholarship 2025 and has participated in several residency programs, including A-Z West / High Desert Test Sites in California, Rocking S Art Ranch in Arizona and G.Urban Platform in Armenia. In 2026, she will be exhibiting at Art Düsseldorf alongside artist Charmaine Poh for Behncke Gallery and at Various Others Munich. The artist has previously resided and worked/studied in Cape Town, Vienna, and Barcelona and currently works and lives in Munich.

Image credit:
Luisa Baldhuber. Afterglow
Exhibition view
Haus der Kunst Munich, 2024
Photo: Maximilian Geuter

Education

2021 – 2025
Study of fine arts as “master student” of Prof. Peter Kogler, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, diploma

Sep 2023
Study of fine arts, Universitat de Barcelona, Erasmus scholarship

2015 – 2021
Study of arts education with Prof. Matthias Wähner and Prof. Tanja Widmann, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, 1st state examination, debutant award for “outstanding artistic achievement“

2020
Guest study of fine arts with Prof. Pia Fries, Academy of Fine Arts Munich

2018 – 2019
Study of fine arts with Prof. Paul Petritsch,
Department for site-specific art, University of Applied Arts Vienna,
Erasmus scholarship

2013 – 2014
lived and worked in Cape Town, ZA

Awards & Scholarships

2025CeU Art AwardScholarship for PS61 Studios, MunichNomination for US-Scholarship for artists by the Bavarian government

Artist Profile: Luisa Baldhuber