Erika Peucelle (b. 2000, Zagreb) is a painter whose work is rooted in observation, intimacy, and emotional nuance. Drawing from her own photographs—often taken casually with a small digital camera or Polaroid—she transforms fleeting, everyday moments into painterly reflections that feel at once deeply personal and quietly universal. Her images are often soft, diaristic, and unguarded: a friend at rest, a passing stranger, a hazy street view. Through this process, Peucelle creates a space where memory and feeling blend, capturing not just what is seen, but what is felt in the moment of looking.
Her visual language moves between looseness and precision, echoing the rhythms of a digital-native generation: overstimulated yet searching for stillness, connected yet often adrift. With each canvas, she brings attention to moments that might otherwise go unnoticed—allowing the mundane to become meaningful. This sensitivity to the everyday is central to her practice, and forms the emotional ground of her latest exhibition.
Do you long to experience everything life has to offer? What does it truly mean to live fully?
This exhibition presents a series of diary-style paintings that follow the unfolding of a love story through quiet, ordinary moments. A passing face, the blur of scenery from a car window, feet resting on a train seat—each image opens up a space for reflection, inviting viewers into a shared, unspoken emotional world. These fragments of experience are intimate but not exclusive. They offer something we all recognize: the strange beauty of being alive and alert in fleeting time.
Alongside these subtle vignettes, other works in the exhibition portray striking, solitary figures: a girl lying on her bed, a boy enjoying an ice cream, intimate glimpses of lovers together in private spaces. These scenes capture the emotional depth of presence—how love and connection, even in small gestures, can act as a refuge from the noise and fragmentation of modern life.
In a time when speed, distraction, and disconnection often define our experience, Peucelle’s work offers something different: a slowing down, a looking closer, a return to feeling. With tenderness and clarity, she explores love not as a grand declaration, but as a quiet, enduring force—a way of being that resists the emptiness of isolation.
We’re happy to present Erika Peucelle’s first solo show at the gallery, timed to coincide with Amsterdam Art Week 2025. It’s a great moment to get to know her work.
