About

Lina Killinger’s artistic practice explores the material and perceptual qualities of color at the intersection of painterly inquiry and scientific observation. Since her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 2019, she has focused on gradients, dissolution, and transformation, investigating how color behaves as both substance and phenomenon.

Through glassblowing and time-based observation, she examines how pigments dissolve, diffuse, and interact in water. By enclosing liquid color within mouth-blown glass, she suspends its natural tendency to evaporate or flatten, preserving it in a state between movement and stillness.

In her studio, Lina Killinger investigates how materials transform and how these transformations become perceptible, creating works that exist between control and chance, solidity and liquidity.

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*1998 in Munich

Education

Since 2019 Fine Art studies (Painting and Printmaking) with Prof. Schirin Kretschmann · Academy of Fine Arts Munich

Selected Exhibitions

2026Drift · Espaço Cultural Mercês · Lisbon · Portugal
2026Prism: Collaboration between Prism Kollektiv and Loja16 · Loja16 · Lisbon · Portugal
2025“25<25” – Anniversary Exhibition: Young Perspectives on Present and Future · Villa Falkenhorst · Thuringia · Austria
2025Energia: Exhibition following the CCAA residency program in Flims · Galeria Sacchetti · Ascona · Switzerland
2024Colour Alchemy: Transcending Mediums · Langen Jennings Contemporary · Munich
2024Salt & Grids · Supercentercourt · Munich
2024Donumenta ART LAB on Screen · Regensburg
2024Strangers Who Know Each Other Best · BBK Munich
2024start 56 · Gopea exhibition space · Burg Bentheim
2023Material Studies · Köşk · Munich
2024Subkutan: Show don’t tell! · Raum_004 · Institute of Art History · Munich
2022Dispersionen, student works from the Kretschmann class · Academy of Fine Arts Munich · Galerie der HBKsaar · Saarbrücken
2022LINES, Class Knaus / Class Kretschmann · Galerie Alte Brennerei · Kunstverein Ebersberg e.V.
2022Class Wermers & friends · External Storage Solutions Inc. – Future-Proof Your Memory Foam! · Neuaubing
2021TOUCH AWAY, online exhibition · curated by Carolina Perez Pallares and Benjamin Appel · Santiago de Chile

Awards / Grants

2025CCAA Residency Program · Flims
2024Upper Bavarian Förderpreis for Applied Arts
2024Bild-Werk Frauenau · Scholarship recipient at Sommerakademie Frauenau · supported by the Alexander Tutsek Foundation
2024Sommerakademie Salzburg · Scholarship recipient
2023Winner of the award sculpture competition commissioned by Deloitte for Technology Fast 50 and Venture Client Award
2023Gopea Art Funding · Burg Bentheim

Press

20254 November · Süddeutsche Zeitung: “Ein Testlauf auf dem Kunstmarkt”
2025Tessiner Zeitung: “Wenn Künstler Energie umgestalten”
2024Bezirk Oberbayern: Killinger / Bezirk Oberbayern
202318 January · Süddeutsche Zeitung (Landkreis Ebersberg): “Dicht Verwebt”
202314 May · Süddeutsche Zeitung: “Fünf für München – Ein neues Abenteuer mit Checker Tobi – Experimentell”
202326 June · Süddeutsche Zeitung: “Münchens junge Kreative – Zucker, Kupfer und dann Chemie”