At Frieze Masters 2025, Almeida & Dale and Travesía Cuatro hold a solo presentation of Eleonore Koch‘s works in booth S09. 

The curated selection spans Koch’s prolific period from the 1960s to the 1980s, years deeply connected to her life in London. These works—both drawings and paintings reflect her profound engagement with the city, particularly her repeated explorations of Regent’s Park. 

Born into a Jewish family in Berlin, Koch fled Nazi persecution and found refuge in São Paulo in the 1930s. Her path as an artist was shaped by early mentorship under Alfredo Volpi (b.1896, Lucca, Italy – d.1988, São Paulo, Brazil) and later enriched by two transformative decades in London. 

Working primarily in egg tempera, Koch created paintings that balance the everyday with the extraordinary. Scenes of parks, seascapes, and still lifes recur in her practice, yet she infused them with a transcendent quality that elevates the ordinary into the timeless. Her use of handcrafted pigments and painstaking technique lent her canvases a luminous, ethereal presence. 

Across these works, familiar urban scenes shift subtly in hue and composition, becoming visions of otherworldly beauty. They reveal the maturity Koch reached during her London years, marked by her mastery of egg tempera and her intimate, reflective approach. Her process began with photography to study perspective and isolate ornamental details, followed by experiments with composition and color through paper cut-out collages—a method she learned from her relative Josef Albers. 

Koch’s practice unsettles conventional narratives within both Brazilian and global art history. Her work invites comparison with figures such as Giorgio Morandi and Alice Neel, artists whose significance was fully recognized only posthumously. Today, her legacy is gaining long-overdue visibility: from her prominent presentation at the 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2021) and a solo exhibition at Modern Art, London (2021), to a major retrospective at MAC USP in São Paulo (2024). 

Explore the full set of works in booth S09 at Frieze Masters from October 15th to 19th.