Lara Bandilla works as a contemporary painter at the intersection of figuration, psychological tension, and atmospheric dissolution. Her work explores identity as a shifting state, inner conflict, and the unconscious as a visual and experiential dimension.
Her paintings have been shown at Hillyer Art Space in Washington, the Kleist Museum in Frankfurt/Oder, the AAF in Amsterdam and Shanghai, and Galerie Steiner in Berlin. She was invited to speak at the Delegation of the European Union to the United States on the occasion of her exhibition Of Time And Light.
Her works are held in public collections, including the Kleist Museum.
Bandilla was born in Hamburg and lives and works in Berlin.
Lara Bandilla arbeitet als zeitgenössische Malerin an der Schnittstelle von Figuration, psychologischer Spannung und atmosphärischer Auflösung. Ihre Arbeiten thematisieren Identität als beweglichen Zustand, innere Konflikte und das Unbewusste als bildhafte Erfahrung.
Ihre Bilder wurden unter anderem im Hillyer Art Space in Washington, dem Kleist Museum in Frankfurt/Oder, auf der AAF Amsterdam und Schanghai und der Galerie Steiner in Berlin gezeigt und sie wurde anläßlich ihrer Ausstellung “Of Time And Light” eingeladen, vor der Delegation der Europäischen Union in den USA zu sprechen.
Ihre Werke befinden sich in öffentlichen Sammlungen, u. a. im Kleist Museum.
Bandilla wurde in Hamburg geboren und lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.
...the paintings don’t feel rooted in place. Bandilla depicts a world in flux...the dreamlike pictures include areas of near-photographic realism, but also sections where the image seems to melt — more in the manner of Gerhard Richter’s photo-derived blurs than Salvador Dali’s drippy surrealism...the transitions often involve hot white, which both illuminates and obscures, like sunlight so bright that it temporarily blinds...the artist conjures a sense of movement, both with impressionistic style and in the choice of locales...
Mark Jenkins, Washington Post
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SEHNSUCHTSORTE, Taith Contemporary, Vienna
PLACES OF LONGING, Die Blaue Galerie, Altausee
Reading of THE BLUE VOICE, Gallery Philoart, Wuppertal
SEEING RED, Taith Contemporary, Vienna
WOVEN WORLDS, Gallery Philoart, Wuppertal
HEAD UP, Group, Taith Contemporary, Vienna
IMPRINTS, Solo, Philoart Gallery, Wuppertal
TRACES OF HUMANITY, Group, Taith Contemporary, Vienna
SHOW No.4, Solo, WomenPaintersRoom, Berlin
AESTHETICS OF A DISENCHANTED WORLD, Group, Goerz Höfe, Berlin,
MAKE ART NOT WAR, Group, Philoart Gallery, Wuppertal
ORLANDO, Group, Taith Contemporary, Vienna
ON VIEW, Solo, Philoart Gallery, Wuppertal
THE FOREIGN IN US, Group, Philoart Gallery, Wuppertal
Reading of my story EDEN, Philoart Gallery, Wuppertal
THE MOMENT, Solo,Taith Contemporary, Vienna
EDEN, Solo, Philoart Gallery, Wuppertal
ON THE ROAD, Solo, Steiner Gallery, Berlin
OF TIME AND LIGHT, Solo, IA&A Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC, USA
ARCHAICS, Solo, Kunstverein Hattingen
STUDIO EXHIBITION, Solo, Schaperstrasse, Berlin
TIME LIGHT, Solo, Christuskirche, Cologne
LIGHT FLOAT SPACE, Group, Ballhaus im Nordpark, Düsseldorf
TRACING PENTHESILEA, Solo, Gallery Golkar, Bonn
AAF AMSTERDAM
SHANGHAI ART FAIR
GOOD AMERICA - BAD AMERICA, Museum Walter, Augsburg
ART SOCIETY NEUEHRENFELD KÖLN
WELCOME TO PARADISE, Megahertz Records
FANTASTIC CREATURES, Solo, Württembergisches Palais, Regensburg
WATER, Group, Night of the Museums, Regensburg
SALON, Group, Salon DÓrpheé, Regensburg
THE TIME OF THE DOGS, Solo, Kulturspeicher, Regensburg
PENTHESILEA - THE UNGUIDED WILL, Solo, Kleist Museum, Frankfurt an der Oder
SOGNANDO DIO, Solo, Centro Pellegrini, Rome
CONVERSATIONS IN CULTURE
Speech to the Delegation of the European Union to the United States, on the occasion of the exhibition OF TIME AND LIGHT, International Arts and Artists, Washington DC, USA
PUBLIC COLLECTION
Kleist Museum, Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany
... strong impressions by Lara Bandilla...between magical realism and deliberate abstraction... especially emotional and incisive are the works in which she narrates of her own family history....
...Lara Bandilla's works interweave the real world with the magical. Her painterly realism in the broadest sense, characterised by magical figures, concentrates on the depiction of emotional states.... she achieves this through an application technique that creates luminous effects, and her endeavour to breathe life and movement into the painting...