Monica Luza-Windolph

I was born in an old, large house with high ceilings and eleven rooms in the city of Lima. There my parents lived with my seven brothers. The smell of the good seasoning of the dishes prepared by my mother and the smell of oil, water, terpentine are mixed in my memory. In one of the spaces my dad had his desk, his books, his materials and his easel: he was a painter and his subject was the portrait. With the still lifes that our father put together, my relationship with art began. My father read a lot and knew the history of art very well, his stories, his anecdotes were always fuelling my curiosity to see other worlds, relate to other cultures and see live the works of the great masters. That's how I came to Germany with the illusion of studying at an art school and visiting the great museums.

For two years I visited the Städelsches Art Institute in Frankfurt, Germany. In that city I met my husband, who continues to accompany me in this beautiful adventure and I brought my best creation to the world: Rainer and Silke, my children.
I returned to my studies at the National School of Fine Arts in Lima and I was fortunate to have as a teacher the artist Miguel Angel Cuadros who not only knew how to teach the different pictorial te...

1993-1995 Master, University of the Arts, Berlin
1985-1986 Anatomic Drawing, Cristina Gálvez Studio, Professor Margarita Checa, Lima
1983-1987 Study of Painting and Drawing, National Arts School (Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes), Professor Miguel Angel Cuadros, Lima
1974-1976 Study of Painting and Drawing, Städelsches Kunstinstitut (National Arts School) in Frankfurt/Main
1972-1973 Curso de Pintura, Art Center, Professor Miguel Angel Cuadros, Lima

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION):

2024 PAISAJES - LANDSCHAFTEN (Landscapes)
Maria Reiche Hall, Peruvian Embassy, Berlin

2023-24 LENGUAJE ORIGINARIO - EL PALLAR
(Original Language - The Lima Bean)
Centro Cultural Inca Garcilaso, Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lima, Peru

2019 VALE UN PALLAR
Museo de Sitio »Julio C. Tello« Paracas, Peru

2018 VALE UN PALLAR
Regional Museum of Ica, Peru

2018 ARTE AL PASO: THE INCREASING YELLOW LINES
Intervention into the public space
Sala Luis Miró Quesada Garland, Municipality of Miraflores, Lima

2018 THE INCREASING YELLOW LINES
Intervention into the public space, Festival Internacional de Cine y Migración, Sala Luis Miró Quesada Garland, Miraflores, Lima

2014 SECUESTRO VISUAL
Galería Cecilia Gonzales & Denise Dourojani, Lima

2013 EIFERSÜCHTIGE SEELEN
Galerie Schloss und Gut Liebenberg, Liebenberg, Brandenburg, Germany

2012 COLOR Y PAISAJE
Museo Pedro de Osma, Lima

2011 TO THE PEOPLE OF SANTO DOMINGO
Capilla de los Remedios, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2010 BLINKY PALERMO IN THE ANDES
Maria Reiche Hall, Peruvian Embassy, Berlin

2009 ENTRE MUNDOS
Museo Zorrilla, Montevideo, Uruguay

2006 PALLARES / LIMA BEANS / Reinterpreting a Symbol
Gale...