LUCIA KOCH

According to critic and curator Moacir dos Anjos, the artist ‘reorganizes the understanding of visual spaces [...] and establishes an interaction with the public, through negotiating with uprooting perceptions and the disconcerting effect this causes’. Using light filters and textiles, Lucia plays with light and its chromatic effects, creating tensions between the inside and the outside, transparency and opacity, thus altering the nature of space.

Since 2001, Lucia Koch has been photographing the interior of carton boxes and empty packaging in such a way that they come to resemble architectural structures. Also playing with notions of perspective, once these images are hung on a wall, they seem to allow for an extension of the space they exist in. Koch also experiments with scale, where the typically small becomes enormous and seems to become inhabitable, raising the question of what turns space into place and uproots the norms that dictate our spatial expectations and experiences.

Lucia Koch lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. Recent solo exhibitions include People and Natural Numbers, Nara Roesler, New York, USA (2025); Light Falls, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany (2023); Double Trouble, Palais d’Iéna, Paris, France (2022); PROPAGANDA, Instituto de Arte Contemporânea de Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil (2021); Casa de vento, Casa de Vidro, São Paulo, Brazil (2019); Uma boa ordem, Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Mexico (2019); A longa noite, Sesc Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil (2018); La Temperatura del Aire, Fundación Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain (2015).

She has participated in the Islamic Arts Biennale, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2025); 1st Rabat Biennial, Morocco (2019); 11th and 13th Lyon Biennale, France (2011, 2015); 11th Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates (2013); 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2006); 2nd, 5th, and 8th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (1999, 2005, 2011); and the 8th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2003). Selected group shows include Visions of Modernism, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (2017) and Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA (2014). Her works are held in institutional collections such as the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France; Instituto de Arte Contemporânea de Inhotim, Brazil; Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Brazil; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, USA; The J. Paul Getty Museum, USA; and Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil.

Courtesy Galeria Nara Roesler