Lauren Januhowski

Madrid, Spain

Some paintings don’t represent the world. They try to summon something beyond it.

Lauren Januhowski

Meet the artist

The Movement

Contemporary Art

Exhibition Highlights - What you’ll see

Contemporary abstract painting with influences from spiritual abstraction, minimalism, ritual symbolism, and atmospheric color field painting.

In What We Invoke, Lauren Januhowski creates paintings that feel meditative, fragile, and almost ceremonial.

The works move through muted palettes, layered textures, traces of gesture, and suspended forms that seem to emerge slowly from the surface rather than appear fully defined.

You’re watching:

  • Abstract compositions that suggest symbols, portals, or emotional landscapes
  • Surfaces built through repetition, erosion, and layering
  • Paintings balanced between silence and tension
  • A dialogue between materiality and spirituality

The exhibition unfolds less like a narrative and more like an atmosphere you enter gradually.

Worth the trip

Because What We Invoke resists spectacle.

It asks for attention instead of reaction.

In a contemporary art landscape dominated by immediacy and visual overload, this exhibition feels unusually intimate and reflective. The curatorial approach by Victoria Rivers strengthens that sensation — creating a space where abstraction becomes emotional rather than purely formal.

And inside Madrid’s independent gallery scene, exhibitions like this show why the city is becoming increasingly relevant for contemporary art lovers.

How to experience it

Visit slowly → these paintings reveal themselves over time

Spend a few uninterrupted minutes with a single work

Pay attention to texture and surface rather than searching for meaning immediately

Let ambiguity remain open → interpretation is part of the experience

Artlovers tip:

This exhibition works best when you stop trying to “understand” the paintings — and simply stay with them for a while.

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