Laura Limbourg

Limbourg's paintings unfold in dreamlike, often surreal environments where personal narratives intersect with broader social and cultural questions. Female figures, symbolic animals, and lush landscapes populate her compositions, creating ambiguous worlds that oscillate between vulnerability and empowerment. Influenced by her experiences in Taiwan, her earlier works examine the representation of women, gender dynamics, and the structures of power that shape social behaviour. Animals, particularly tigers, emerge as symbolic companions, embodying protection, strength, and the complexities of human emotion.

More recently, Limbourg has turned towards an increasingly introspective and autobiographical visual language. Her paintings explore the tensions between outward confidence and inner uncertainty, reflecting on ambition, anxiety, intimacy, and the search for belonging. Drawing on personal experiences and everyday encounters, she creates scenes that capture the fragility of contemporary existence while revealing the shared emotional experiences that connect individuals across cultures.

Her distinctive painterly approach is characterised by a deliberately naïve visual language and an intuitive handling of materials. Working with diluted acrylics, oil pastels, and watercolours, often on unprimed canvas, Limbourg creates translucent layers, softened contours, and atmospheric surfaces. The resulting compositions balance spontaneity with psychological depth, allowing moments of humour, tenderness, and unease to coexist within a single image.

Limbourg's international exhibition history includes solo exhibitions such as E30022 at SUPPAN, Vienna (2023), DEUCE at Ballon Rouge, Brussels (2023), Dragon and His Tale at YIRI ARTS, Taipei (2022), and Hump in Honey at Trafo Gallery, Prague (2022). Her work has also been presented in solo booths at SPARK Art Fair Vienna (2024), Future Fair New York (2023), and PARALLEL Vienna (2022). Further exhibitions include presentations at Shin Gallery, New York (2024), Think+Feel Contemporary, Miami (2024), COMMA, Bratislava (2024), and Chemistry Gallery, Prague.

Her works are represented in international collections, including the COLLETT Collection (Prague and Munich), the Robert Runták Collection, and Pekelné sáně, alongside private collections in Taiwan, Austria, France, and the United States. In 2020, she received the 13th Art Critics' Prize for Young Painting in Prague, recognising her distinctive contribution to contemporary figurative painting.

Through her combination of personal storytelling, cultural observation, and expressive painterly experimentation, Limbourg creates compelling visual narratives that explore the contradictions of contemporary identity. Her works invite viewers into intimate psychological landscapes where strength and vulnerability, reality and imagination, coexist.