BIO
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.
STATEMENT
Eileen Köhler’s practice is a response 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.
CV
Resides and works in Guatemala City.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Umbral, Recording Box, Guatemala, GT
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2025
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, Palacio Nacional de la Cultura, Guatemala, GT
Arte Centenario, Club de Rotarios, Hotel Intercontinental, Guatemala, GT
Colectiva de 37 aniversario, Galería el Áttico- Museo Ixchel, Guatemala, GT
Corpografías, Galería MUSA, Guatemala, GT
Galería Abierta, Galería Municipal de Arte, Guatemala, GT
2024
Latente, Museo Ixchel, Guatemala, GT
ESPACIOS 2024, Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, Galería CAOS, Guatemala, GT
Mucho Gusto- Puertas abiertas al Arte, Delegación Europea, Guatemala, GT
Convergencia Artística- Festival Mosaico Artístico, Centro cultural Mosaico, Guatemala, GT
Upcycling Art- II, Alianza Francesa, Guatemala, GT
2023
ColeccionArte 2023, Galería OSMOSIS, Guatemala, GT
Visiones Juveniles- Puertas abiertas al Arte- Delegación Europea, Guatemala, GT
XI edición de Plástica Guatemalteca Contemporánea, Palacio Nacional de la Cultura, Guatemala, GT
Momentos, Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Centro Histórico de Guatemala, Guatemala, GT
Right Love, Wrong Time, LARK Galería, Guatemala, GT
12vo Salón de Miniaturas Galería Rafael Mora, Guatemala, GT
Velada artística, Galería Rosa de Luxemburgo, Guatemala, GT
Galería Abierta 2023, Galería Municipal de Arte, Guatemala, GT
2019- 2022
Abstractos, Galería AK, Guatemala, GT
Entre Tiempo, Galería AK Guatemala, GT
Trazos Colectivos, Galería AK, Guatemala, GT
PUBLICATIONS
2025
Puertas Abiertas al arte. Unión Europea. Visiones Juveniles. P.31, 40, 41
101 Art Book : Nature Edition. Arts To Hearts Project. P.33
Time And Memory Book. Arts To Hearts Project. P.14, 56, 57
2023
El Periódico- Cultura, 21/04. P.16
Book cover: Valeria Rosito Andreu. 2023. Right Love, Wrong Time
2021
Drawings for thesis: Marín. Oscar. 2021. Heine-Schubert. Oscar Marin Reyes, Universität Mozarteum, Salzburg
EDUCATION
2022-2025: Liberal Arts Bachelor in Visual Arts and Cultural Management. Michael Polanyi College at Francisco Marroquín University, Guatemala, GT
2024
History of Guatemalan Visual Arts, 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries Universidad Popular, Guatemala, GT
Modern Art & Ideas, MOMA
The Cycle: Management of Successful Arts and Cultural Organizations, University of Maryland, College Park
Arts and Heritage Management, Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
2023
Arts and Culture Strategy, University of Pennsylvania and National Arts Strategies
