12 New Artists

Alongside more than 90 new editions, we are expanding the LUMAS portfolio this autumn with 12 exceptional artistic voices. Rising talents meet established artists, united by our curatorial commitment to quality and originality. An overview of our curators’ latest discoveries – and what earned each one a place in the portfolio.

Marianna Gefen never starts with a blank page: she paints on found paper with a past, allowing material and chance to play their part. An unmistakable visual language between fine art and illustration – with work for Vogue and The New York Times.

A former chemical engineer, Carla Sá Fernandes has made the unpredictable the guiding principle of her art. She brings photography, painting and digital art together in luminous compositions led by colour, light and intuition.

Chris Riley’s idealised pools, palms and Mid-Century architecture are more than refuges: they are exercises in attention. In his “Blue Sky World”, the good life is not a place, but a way of looking at the world.

For more than 26 years, Almir Reis has worked with fine-art photography. Today, he combines it with painterly interventions in acrylic – extending this dialogue between media, in selected editions, into the format itself.

Her figures turn away; her works do not. Karoline Kroiss looks beyond facial expression to body language, capturing the essence of a moment, a story – and translating it into a form that can unfold without being pinned down.

For Claudia Sauter, colour is not decoration but identity. Her portraits of women combine the visual impact of Pop Art with painterly freedom – making presence, self-determination and individuality the true subject.

Andrés Galeano rearranges the sky – from memories whose stories have long been lost. For more than 15 years, he has collected old photo albums, assembling found fragments of sky unchanged into new horizons between archive, collage and collective memory.

Kevin Boyle removes the landscape’s familiar orientation – and gives our gaze new freedom. Without a horizon, real river courses become lines, water becomes movement and topography approaches abstract painting, showing that wonder can be just one perspective away.

Hans Truöl understood movement before he photographed it. A skier and mountaineer himself, he transformed the Alpine world into precisely composed images – including his legendary 1960 Porsche jump, restaged six decades later.

Chris Frost waits all year for a handful of mornings. In the woodlands of Dorset, the award-winning landscape photographer captures the brief moment when bluebells, wild garlic, mist and first spring light transform the ancient forest.

Daniel Kordan travels to places where nature still calls the shots. Across some of the world’s most remote landscapes, meticulous preparation meets the patience to wait for a fleeting moment no plan can produce.