Luisa Baldhuber | behncke gallery

Luisa Baldhuber (lives in Munich) studied art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 2015 to 2021 and received the Debutant Prize in 2021. From 2018 to 2019, she studied fine arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and received an Erasmus scholarship for the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, in 2023. In February 2025, she completed her studies as a master student under Prof. Peter Kogler at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. She had her first institutional solo exhibition, “Afterglow,” at the Haus der Kunst in Munich in 2024-2025. Baldhuber has been awarded several residencies, including the A-Z West Work Trade Residency, HDTS, Joshua Tree, California, USA, in 2023, and the Rocking S Art Ranch Artist Residency, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, in 2024. In 2025, she received the CeU Art Award. Together with Charmaine Poh – Deutsche Bank “Artist of the Year” 2025 – Baldhuber will participate in the Art Düsseldorf Fair 2026 with the Behncke Gallery. Luisa Baldhuber's artistic interest lies in the relationship between color, space, and light and how these influence our perception of space. Baldhuber is currently a PS61 Studios scholarship holder for the year IV - 2025/2026 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

2025 CeU Art Award Scholarship for PS61 Studios, Munich Nomination for US-Scholarship for artists by the Bavarian government

2024 Rocking S Art Ranch Artist Residency, Phoenix, Arizona US Nomination for Van Look Prize, Freiburg

2023 Project funding The Middle Ear, sound workshop with Nicolás Jaar, AdbK Munich A-Z West Work Trade Residency, HDTS, Joshua Tree, California, US

2022 Armenian – German Artist in Residence program Mards, Munich

2021 Debutant Award, by Sate of Bavaria and Art Academy Foundation Ground Art Fest Artist Residency, G.Urban Platform, Gyumri, Armenia

2020 Catalog Funding, by LfA funding bank Bavaria, Munich Wennfeldhaus, Artist Residency, ELEVEN Artspace, Tuebingen

Selected exhibitions

2025 No Talking For Seven Days, duo sho with Robert Elfgen, Behncke Gallery, Munich 80 mètre carré, group show, 229 LAB, Paris Kyoto Morph und die vier Füße des Benjamin, group show, Kunstarkaden, Munich Mal schauen, was München zeigt, group show, KunstKontor, Nuremberg The Moon Is No Door, group show, Heldenreizer Contemporary, Munich Oscillating, diploma show, Academy of Fine Arts Munich

2024 – 2025 Afterglow, solo show, Haus der Kunst Munich

2024 Zimmer frei, Hotel Mariandl, Munich Highlights Lab, Highlights International Art Fair, Munich Open Studios Rocking S Art Ranch, Phoenix, USA

2023 10 days, Kunstarkaden Munich hazy, solo show, Farbenladen, Munich

2022 Debutants of AdBK 2022, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich Mards, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, 34th Open Art Gallery Weekend, Munich Augmented Dreams, Austrian Sculpture Park, Graz, Austria

2021 Tracking, @base, ERES Foundation, Munich graduation exhibition arts education, Academy of Fine Arts Munich GURBAN Art Fest, G.Urban Platform, Gyumri, Armenia

2020 – 2021 And the FORESTs will echo with laughter …, ERES Foundation, Munich

Talks & Lectures

2025 Artist Talk with Andrea Lissoni, Artistic Director of Haus der Kunst Munich, No Talking For Seven Days, Behncke Gallery, Munich

2024 Artist Talk with Anna Schneider, Artistic Director of Das Minsk Kunsthaus Potsdam and former curator of Haus der Kunst Munich, Afterglow, Haus der Kunst Munich

2020 Lecture performance “Yasuní”, And the FORESTs will echo with laughter …, ERES Foundation Munich

Artist Profile: Luisa Baldhuber