Eileen Köhler

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Eileen Köhler responds to the speed, information overload, and complexity of our times. Eileen embraces sensibility, intuition, and spontaneity as the essence of her practice and chooses to flow, letting go of the impulse to rationalize and take control. She finds freedom through chance and through moments of indeterminacy. Each stroke records an instant: energy, fluidity, continuity, the absence of duality, and a unique understanding of space.

Eileen’s influences are nourished by the surrealist and magical worlds of Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning; the fluidity of automatism; the harmony of Taoism, and the study of the unconscious.

Symbolic elements and oneiric characters reappear among abstract strokes and shapes, inhabiting the space: some amid stillness, others among whirlwinds of movement.

As a body of water reflecting all that we shy away from, each work evokes unconscious landscapes: reflections for the spectator to find themselves and recognize their desires, dreams, expectations, beliefs, and memories. Thus, works emerge that invite attention to expand, and through their own sensitivity, explore the territory that unites the visible and the invisible.

It is a gaze upon this world from the depths of our interior, a journey along the space that encompasses the tangible and intangible reality, driven by a nascent, spiritual energy.

Eileen Köhler (born 2003, Guatemala) is a visual artist who works from a sensibility, intuition and spontaneity.

Through poetic ways, her work bridges the space within identity, the unconscious with the tangible.

In 2025, she obtained a degree in Liberal Arts with Specialization in Visual Arts and Cultural Management from the Michael Polany College, Universidad Francisco Marroquín. She has complemented her learning with studies at institutions such as MoMA and the University of Maryland.

Several galleries and museums in Guatemala have showcased her work, including Alliance Française Guatemala, Galería El Ático, Palacio Nacional de Cultura, and Galería Municipal de Arte.

Eileen has also presented her work at international showrooms and participated in multidisciplinary collaborations.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025
No necesita permiso, Alianza Francesa, Guatemala, GT

2022
Umbral, Recording Box, Guatemala, GT

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

2025
Yo Robot, Municipal Cultural Center, Guatemala, GT
Momentos, Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Historical Center of Guatemala, Guatemala, GT
Latente, Fundación Sueños en Arte, Avia, Guatemala, GT
SANARTE, Fundación Paiz, Museo de los Niños, Guatemala, GT
Time and Memory, The Archive of Lost Things - Room 4, Arts To Hearts Project
Puertas Abiertas al Arte, Unión Europea, National Palace of Culture, Guatemala, GT
Arte Centenario, Club de Rotarios, Hotel Intercontinental, Guatemala, GT
Colectiva de 37 aniversario, El Áttico Gallery- Ixchel museum, Guatemala, GT
Corpografías, MUSA Gallery, Guatemala, GT
Plantas Nativas, Juan Carlos Castagnino Municipal Art Museum, Buenos Aires, AR
Galería Abierta, Municipal Art Gallery, Guatemala, GT

2024
Latente, Fundación Sueños en Arte, Ixchel museum, Guatemala, GT
ESPACIOS 2024, Ministry of Culture and Sports, CAOS gallery, Guatemala, GT
Mucho Gusto- Puertas abiertas al Arte, European Delegation, Guatemala, GT
Convergencia Artística- Mosaico Artístico festival, Mosaico cultural center, Guatemala, GT
Upcycling Art- II, French Alliance, Guatemala, GT

2023
ColeccionArte 2023, OSMOSIS gallery, Guatemala, GT
Visiones Juveniles- Puertas abiertas al Arte- European Delegation, Guatemala, GT
XI edición de Plástica Guatemalteca Contemporánea, National Palace of Culture, Guatemala, GT
Momentos, Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Rosario,Historical Center of Guatemala, GT
Right Love, Wrong Time, LARK Gallery, Guatemala, GT
12vo Salón de Miniaturas Galería Rafael Mora, Guatemala, GT
Velada artística, Rosa de Luxemburgo Gallery, Guatemala, GT
Galería Abierta 2023, Municipal Art Gallery, Guatemala, GT

2019- 2022
Abstractos, Galería AK, Guatemala, GT
Entre Tiempo, Galería AK Guatemala, GT
Trazos Colectivos, Galería AK, Guatemala, GT

Selected Artist for ESPACIOS 2024, Ministry of Culture, Guatemala

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