Luisa Banov

Luisa works with painting and drawing, developing series that explore the relationship between human beings and nature. The works are reduced and focus on materiality, surface, and the quiet, transient qualities of image and perception.

Her artistic practice is based on observation, reduction, and transformation. She starts from visual and emotional impulses drawn from reality, which she internalizes, reshapes, and translates into a personal visual language.
She is interested in the tension between presence and dissolution, between materiality and immaterial perception.

Through a small number of precise elements, open pictorial spaces emerge that unfold gradually in the act of viewing.
Time plays a central role – both in the process of making and in the experience of the work.

Born in 1964 in Rijeka, Croatia.

Studies in Fine Arts and Art Education in Rijeka (Diploma 1988)
Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Prof. Jerry Zeniuk (Diploma 2005).

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 GEDOK, „Whitely Time“, Two-person exibition, Munich, Germany
2024 GEDOK, Welcome 1, Munich, Germany
   Biennale Klohäuschen, Munich, Germany
   SPIELZEUG, Municipal Gallery Neuburg an der Donau, Germany
   Micro Art Gallery, New Town Hall, Munich, Germany
2023 PLATFORM, WASTELANDS, Munich, Germany
2022 NAWC, Hohenbrunn, Germany
   Open Q-Projects, Munich, Germany
2021 Open Q-Projects, Take Over, Munich, Germany
2007–2020 Artistic break for family reasons
2005 Munich School?, Museum Katharinenhof, Kranenburg, Germany
2004 Spirit, Catholic Academy in Bavaria, Munich, Germany
   Lindenkeller, Kunstverein Freising, Freising, Germany
   (Introduction by Sean Scully and Jerry Zeniuk)
   Munich School?, Kreuzgratgewölbe, Kunstverein Aichach, Germany
2003 Kunsthalle am Frankfurter Tor, Berlin, Germany
   The Small Format, Kögl-Turm / Kunstverein Aichach, Germany
2002 Aspekte Galerie, Gasteig, Munich, Germany
2000 Annual Exhibition HDLU, Rijeka, Croatia
   MTV Artwall, Munich, Germany
1999 Galerie in der Sternstraße, Munich, Germany
   Mali Format, Split, Croatia
   Annual Exhibition HDLU, Rijeka, Croatia
1998 Biennale Giuliana d’Arte, Trieste, Italy (Prize)
   Böhmler Art Promotion Prize, Munich, Germany...