Lea Gudrich
, born in 1987 in Breisach, Baden-Württemberg,
GermanyEducation
Waldorf
School
,
Trier“
École des Beaux-Arts”, Rouen, FranceFine
Art
“Akademia Sztuk Pieknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie”, Kraków, Poland
Painting
Trier
University
of Applied Sciences, Germany
Design
~
7 years as a lecturer at Trier
University of Applied Sciences
Main
occupation
Visual artist (Painting)
Lea Gudrich, born in 1987, developed her artistic talent at an early age and further honed it whilst studying art in Rouen (France), Trier (Germany) and Kraków (Poland). Her work is characterised by a fascinating combination of sensitive painterly expression with compositions in oil and acrylic. Delicate ink elements flow into her works in a variety of forms, both figurative and abstract, lending them a particular depth and fragility. In her art, Gudrich continually explores the tension of ambivalence – between fascination and revulsion, light and darkness, fear and its overcoming. Alongside abstract works, she also devotes herself to evocative portraits of children, which captivate the viewer with their emotional presence and psychological complexity. Gudrich’s mystical visual worlds cast a spell over the viewer, only to confront them at the same time with existential questions about transience. This often gives rise to magical scenarios in which a subtle sense of unease is always concealed beneath the aesthetically appealing surface.
Exhibitions:
May 2025
| Cologne, FABRIKAT89, group exhibition, painting
; September | Cologne, Cologne Open Studios, painting
; November | Cologne, FABRIKAT89, painting,
Ei
2024
April | Landshut, Galerie Anke Plath, group exhibition, figurative painting
September | Landshut, Galerie Anke Plath, ‘Botanica’, abstract painting,
E
2023 January
| Cologne, Kunstroute, group exhibition, abstract painting
June | Landshut, Galerie Anke Plath, “Bonne nuit chérie”, figurative painting, E
July | Esch-sur-Alzette, KAMELLEBUTTEK, urban contemporary art gallery, group exhibition, abstract painting
August | Cologne, Soft Spot Studios, group exhibition, painting
2022May
| Landshut, Anke Plath Gallery, “Schwester”, figurative painting, E
August | Cologne, “30 Works” Gallery, group exhibition,
figurative art; September | Cologne, “artrmx”, “Gruppe 69”, group exhibition, abstract painting
;
October
| Cologne, artrmx, “Sparkling like Granny’s bling” Group exhibition, abstract painting
2021 May
| Cologne, artrmx “Gruppe 69”, group exhibition, abstract art prints
May | Landshut, Galerie Anke Plath, painting, E
August | Speicher, as part of the “Kultursommer Speicher”, Group exhibition, abstract painting
September | Speicher, Open Studios RLP, abstract painting
October | Munich, STROKE ARTFAIR, painting
October | Cologne, CO3, figurative painting,
E
2020February
| Cologne, duo exhibition ‘endlich’, figurative
painting2019
April | Cologne, artrmx ‘Gruppe 69’ group exhibition, drawing & paintingMay
| Munich, STROKE ARTFAIR, painting
November | Hamburg, Affordable Art Fair, “We Art Galerie”, painting
2018
April | Cologne, artrmx “Group 69” group exhibition, drawing & painting
May | Munich, STROKE ARTFAIR, paintingMay
| Cologne, as part of the “Gin-Wein-Bier-Gefühl Festival”, drawing, EJune
| Speicher, as part of the “Kultursommer Speicher”, “Meine Zeitzeugin”
,
E
August | Speicher, as part of the “againSpeicher Festival”, group exhibition, painting
September | Mainz, BBK Gallery, “Floating” series, group
exhibitionSeptember | London, CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION, group exhibition, painting October
| Trier, as part of the Design and Culture Days, “memorial” series
October | Madrid, Galeria Gaudi, group exhibition, painting
November | Munich, ARTMUC, Galeria Gaudi, painting
November | Regensburg, “Roomservice”, group exhibition
November | Madrid, Galeria Gaudi, painting, group exhibition
2017 January
| Trier, “Herz Stück”, group exhibition, painting
July | Cologne, artrmx “Gruppe69”, group exhibition, painting
August | Speicher, “againSpeicher” art festival “In|Between”, group exhibition
November | Cologne, “In|Between” FunktionSchnitt, E
2016
,
March
| Cologne, Illu16, drawing, group
exhibition
,
July
| Cologne, artrmx “Gruppe69”, group exhibition, drawing & painting
,
October
| Dortmund, ‘In|Between’ 44309streetartgallery, duo exhibition, drawing & painting
October | Manderscheid, Kulturtage 2016 RLP, drawing, group
exhibition
2015
January
| Cologne, Herr Pimock ‘Meine Zeitzeugin’ prints, E
August | Dodenburg, HECKENLANDFORUM international artists’ gathering, group
exhibition2014January
| Trier, “Meine Zeitzeugin” Trier University of Applied Sciences, E
February | Bernkastel-Kues, “Meine Zeitzeugin”, Machern Monastery, E
August | Dodenburg, HECKENLANDFORUM International Artists’ Gathering, group
exhibition
2013
April | Luxembourg, “STRANGER” & “LAYERSofLIFE”, Differdange, group exhibition
April | Cologne, Cologne PaperArt, Galerie Ass.ArtEtCulture, group exhibition
October | Trier, “Meine Zeitzeugin”, Trier University of Applied Sciences, E