Léa Porré (b. 1996, France) is a French-Belgian artist based in London who constructs impossible encounters. Working across CGI worldbuilding, sculpture, and installation, she produces virtual snapshots of fragmented collective memory.
Her works operate as fictional souvenirs: remains of dreams, constructed events, and symbolic fragments that feel at once familiar and eerie.
Drawing on architectural motifs, heraldry, and ornamental display formats — tapestries, wallpapers, gates, emblems — Porré repositions cultural symbols outside their original systems. Figures and signs appear out of time and out of place, suspended within deserted landscapes.
Positioning herself as a dream archaeologist and unreliable narrator, she builds trompe l’oeil realities, portals to a collective past that may never have fully existed.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo:
2026:
— Tache Gallery - Relics (London, UK)
— Tache Gallery - Minor Attractions Fair (London, UK)
2024:
— Patara Gallery - Ianitores Terrestres - curated by LAVA Project (Tbilisi, Georgia)
2023:
— Pavillon Southway - Arcana Arcorum (Marseille, France)
Group:
2026:
— Somers Gallery - Pending Response - curated by INKU Sphere (London, UK)
— Arebyte Art Centre - BYOB (London, UK)
— Tache Gallery - Rose Jail (London, UK)
2025:
— Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art - if/then (Warsaw, Poland)
2024:
— Hypha Studios - Seven Lamps - curated by Juliet Wilson (London, UK)
— Generation and Display - IceBlink Luck - curated by Kollektiv Collective (London, UK)
— Mykolas Zilinskas Art Museum - Islands and Archipelagos - curated by Tautvydas Urbelis (Kaunas, Lithuania)
— Moosey Gallery - Occult Surge (London, UK)
— Spazio Mensa - PIT STOP #2 (Rome, Italy)
— SEAGER - Respawn - curated by Bob Bickell-Knight (London, UK)
— Gossamer Fog - Gradient Descent (London, UK)
— The Residence Gallery - Ether (London, UK)
2023:
— MASSIMO - It's the tip of the iceberg (Milan, Italy)
— COB Gallery - History of Fantasy Part II - Southway Studio, curated by Emmanuelle Luciani (London, UK)
— Metronom - Rabbit Hole (Modena, Italy)
2022:
— Art Verona Fair - with Virginia Bianchi Gallery (Verona, Italy)
— ART-O-RAMA Fair - with Southway Studio (Marseille, France)
— K41 - Remember When We Met 3 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
— Fondation Brownstone - TELLUS META - 91530 Le Marais (Paris, France)
— MAMO - Centre d'art de la Cité radieuse - Uncanny Depths (Marseille, France)
— Paradise Row Projects - City Entwined (London, UK)
— Mock Jungle - To spawn a door (Bologna, Italy)
— Centre Pompidou - Réseaux-mondes (Paris, France)
2021:
— Mock Jungle - Creeper's Luncheon - curated by De: Formal (Bologna, Italy)
— Cromwell Place - RCA2021 (London, UK)
— Everyday Gallery - History of Fantasy (Antwerp, Belgium)
— Palacio de Aguas Corrientes - Dia Cero (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
— Matt's Gallery - MattFlix: Everything Forever (online)
2020:
— Lux - OUT of TOUCH - curated by Hervisions (online)
— Espacio Odeón - How to inhabit the screen - curated by Juan Covelli (Bogotá, Colombia)
2019:
— Temple Saint-Etienne - PASSANTS (Mulhouse, France)
— Placement Produit - Who Knows What Happened Here? (Aubervilliers, France) [duo]
2018:
— Central Saint Martins - Show ONE (London, UK)
— Center for Art and Media - ZKM - Open Codes (Karlsruhe, Germany)
— Lethaby Gallery - Temporalities (London, UK)
— Tate Modern - Tate Exchange - STUDIO COMPLEX (London, UK)
2017:
— Lethaby Gallery - Annihilation Event (London, UK)
— Tate Modern - Tate Exchange - Sen5.0 (London, UK)
Residencies
— 2022-3 - Pavillon Southway Studio (Marseille, France)
— 2018 - Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany) & Center for Art and Media - ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany)
>>Ghosted 2018<< Web Residency n.4 (online)
Education
— 2018 - 2021 - Royal College of Art, MA CAP Critical Practice (London, UK)
— 2015 - 2018 - Central Saint Martins, BA Fine Arts 4D (London, UK)
Publications
— Kunstlicht Journal - ONLINE CURATING, Vol. 46 1-2
— NONFICTION - Edition 03: STATEMENT
— NONFICTION - Edition 04: THEN THE CHARM IS FIRM AND GOOD
Public Collections
— UAL (University of Arts London) - 2018 Acquisitions
Awards
— COB Award - Shortlisted (London, UK)
— ZKM Center for Art and Media - Hash Award 2020 - Shortlisted (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Talks
— Galeries Lafayette - 91530 Le Marais at the Wellness Galerie (Paris, France)
— University of Tübingen - Tagung Konstellationen 2021 (online)
— ZKM Center for Art and Media - Hash Award 2020 Ceremony (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Press
— Swarm Mag - IMPOSSIBLE ENCOUNTERS
— Obtuse Archive - FICTIONAL SOUVENIRS, FAULTY PORTALS: IN CONVERSATION WITH LÉA PORRÉ
— Generazione Critica - Harvest Supper
— Saliva Live - IceBlink Luck
— Echo Gone Wrong - Photo reportage from the exhibition ‘Islands and Archipelagos’ at the M. Žilinskas Art Gallery
— Swarm Magazine - REIMAGINE & REDEFINE
— Ichtus Magazine - Le Centenaire de la Villa Noailles, le parcours marseillais
— FAD Magazine - A HISTORY OF FANTASY: PART II BY MARSEILLE COLLECTIVE, SOUTHWAY STUDIO OPENS IN LONDON
— GOODMOODS - 7 expositions à voir au Printemps
— Generazione Critica - LÉA PORRÉ
— Artforum - TOP TEN Xiaoyu Weng’s highlights of 2022
— Artnet - 2022 artnet innovators list "Which artists are you most excited about right now? — La Turbo Avedon"
— O Fluxo - ARTVERONA 2022 - Léa Porré & Xenoangel presented by Virginia Bianchi
— Artribune - ArtVerona: 10 galleries not to be missed at the fair
— O Fluxo - UNCANNY DEPTHS
— Agora Digital Art - Artists' Profile - Léa Porré
— Stillpoint Magazine - ETHEREAL THRESHOLDS AND SURPLUS AESTHETICS
— Gallery Talk - Kunst in Quarantäne #30 - Vampire und Organe
— L'ADN - Jeu vidéo : les jeunes artistes dans le game
— SWARM Mag - Dear One, Dear Dead
— Electrical Artefacts - A Travel Log of Technoromanticism
— Electrical Artefacts - 15 innovative artists shaking up the digital art world
— ANTIMateria - Semana 252.1 Dear One
— Guest Rooms - VinDizen - isolation issue
— TZVETNIK - 'Passants' by AUBES at Temple Saint Etienne, Mulhouse
— El Pais - Cuatro canales en ‘streaming’ para una selección de lo mejor del arte digital
— Ouest France - Quand l'art contemporain habille la royauté
— Floorr Magazine - Issue 19, Léa Porré
— ANTIMateria - Week 160, Who Knows What Happened Here
— Schloss Post - Law of Ruins (Alexander the Great) by Léa Porré
— ANTIMateria - Week 133, Fake plastic forevers & detournement of digital colonialism
— Schloss Post - Issue 0 - Dream of Hyperreal Oases with Léa Porré
— Artlyst - Central Saint Martins Kicks Off London Degree Show Season 2018
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