Bio

Anuk Rocha’s magnetic figurative paintings convey a sense of mystery. Although the German-born, Bosnian-bred artist graduated in fashion design at ‘ENSAD’ in Paris and honed her drawing skills as a fashion designer for the likes of Maison Martin Margiela and Damir Doma, Anuk eventually leaves the fashion world behind to focus on painting.

 

Since 2022 she has exhibited at Blue Shop Cottage (UK), Soho Revue (UK), Galerie Kokanas (FR), Delphian Gallery (UK), Cohle Gallery (FR), Gallery Hioco/Delany (BE), Nibelungen Gallery (BE) and Galleri Christoffer Egelund (DK).

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Her portraits are composed of memories in which noses, eyes or lips are borrowed from different people and conveyed to compose new yet familiar looking faces varying in ethnicity, mood and style. Her patchwork portraits thus exude a magnetic traction, seemingly hiding a deeper meaning and her rhythmic, layered brushwork supports the latter.