Introducing Lu GAN 甘露 (b.1998) @forganlu , a Chinese painter currently based between Berlin and London. She is a recipient of the Ali H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award and holds a BFA in Painting from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.
Lu’s work explores the relationship between everyday experience, memory and imagination. Through the recomposition and arrangement of familiar scenes and dream fragments, she creates images that feel both intimate and faintly unreal. Influenced by Impressionism and Surrealism, her practice reflects on how the images encountered in daily life shape the ways in which she perceives and represents the world. By seeking a balance between observation and imagination, her work constructs a poetic space in which the subconscious and dream imagery intertwine.
Artwork list:
1. Storm, 2026. Oil on canvas, 180 x 200 cm
2. Burn, 2026. Oil on canvas, 185 x 195 cm
3. Rain, 2026. Oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm
4. Story Begins, 2026.Oil on canvas, 30.5 x 40.7 cm
Just found those pictures today🤣
Eating Goldfish 2 & 1
Sketch on wood 200*250cm year 2020
Acrylic on wood 220*280cm year 2020
I had a goldfish during the quarantine time, it lived for less than 2 months. I saw it swimming aimlessly in the bathtub, just as I loved aimlessly at home during that time. People likely to become philosophers when they are aimless, and start thinking about life and death. But it is difficult for me to think like that now. In this world, what he left was a dirty, fishy, bloody bathroom, which seemed to be relic-like elegance.
Actually the acrylic one didn’t finished, there are so many details should be added.
