Trouvaille

Sarah Eick / Leila Lallali / Viktoria Graf / Sebastian Osterhaus / Alina Naomi / Julia Maier

„Trouvaille“ – Group Exhibition, artrelations Gallery, Berlin, 20.11. – 20.12.25

Christmas Party with the artists 13.12.25, 4 – 8 pm – you are invited

The year-end group exhibition „Trouvaille“ showcases truly special finds: artworks with extraordinary imagination and creativity. Paintings, drawings, and photographs transport viewers to a world of nature, animal life, human relationships, and our connections to the objects and architecture around us. The exhibition features artists whose work is regularly presented by the artrelations gallery, as well as a new artistic voice: Leila Lallali.

Sarah Eick
The Berlin-based Sarah Eick photographs for magazines, publishers, actors, musicians, and agencies with great enthusiasm and passion. Her second passion is art. For this, she travels frequently throughout Europe, regularly to the USA, and ideally around the world. Following various exhibitions and auctions, her book „100 Places in Berlin“ was published in 2022. It showcases extraordinary architectural photographs of deserted Berlin. In her studio, she digitally isolated the buildings from their surroundings to bring them into sharp focus. The images depict architecture without people—and, incidentally, one hundred well-known and unusual places in Berlin.
She is also presenting a new photographic art project in which plants are scanned, and the „imperfections“—the errors, artifacts, shadows, or traces of the scanning process—are intentionally incorporated into the image. Scratches on the glass, reflections, motion blur, dust, cut leaves, digital artifacts—all of this becomes quality; pressure marks, blur, and light refractions become poetry. The scanner becomes a light instrument that portrays plants in a special way.

Sarah Eick, Imbiss, Fotografie, 2022

Leila Lallali
Leila Lallali, born in Luxembourg, is a self-taught artist currently based in Berlin. She has been painting since childhood, though a period of study in fashion design in London and a subsequent career in acting in New York City caused her to momentarily step away from her practice. Following many years in theatre and film, she has returned to her first love: painting. Lallali’s work centers on everyday objects and themes — particularly food, fashion, and broader notions of consumption. Her paintings are frequently infused with humor and subtle irony. By painting her objects of desire rather than acquiring them, she seeks to transform personal longing into artistic inquiry, tempering the urge to consume and instead inviting reflection on material culture and the nature of want.
Her compositions move fluidly between figuration and abstraction, privileging intuition over strict representation — much like the imaginative world of childhood, where nothing needs to make perfect sense. Leila’s work is characterized by vivid colors and often incorporates the written word, blending text and image to deepen the emotional and humorous resonance of each piece. Through her practice, she seeks to create a counterpoint to the often somber realities of contemporary life, offering instead moments of levity, celebration, and reflection. Ideally, her paintings incite amusement, provoke a smirk, and spark a moment of playful reflection.

Leila Lallali, „A trilogy of pretty, ugly shoes I & II“ (Diptychon), Acryl on Canvas, 80×30 cm (x2), 2025

Alina Naomi
Alina Naomi is a Berlin-based jewelry designer and artist working at the intersection of art, design, and craft. Each of her pieces is created through the meticulous weaving of hundreds to thousands of glass beads—whether on a loom or freehand—and unfolds its own unique language. Her paternal roots trace back to the Seminole, an indigenous people with a vibrant craft tradition. For her, the art of bead weaving, the connection of individual elements into a harmonious whole, is far more than a craft—it is a heritage that she reinterprets with a contemporary aesthetic.

Alina Naomi

Viktoria Graf
The Dresden-based artist’s work is characterized by stories. Figurative and abstract elements
are transformed into narrative fragments in composition, form, and color.
Human psychology plays a crucial role in this process. A kind of „journey“ into our collective unconscious takes place. Her works are simultaneously delicate, joyful, beautiful, explosive, suspenseful, frightening, and sometimes absurd. Through the union of these opposites, the artist penetrates the divided essence of humanity. „…light cannot exist without shadow, love without hate…“ And so, while the works appear beautiful, playful, and light at first glance, they reveal unexpected depths upon closer inspection.
The works tell of friendship, love, and everything that goes with it. The unique perspective on women in these relationships plays a significant role. Unfinished beauty, robust toughness carved in stone, positive energies, lost longing, all shaped by the experiences that life brings. In various cultural facets, woman constantly reinvents herself, disguises herself, moves naked and remains mysteriously hidden.

Viktoria Graf, „Creation of Nuances“, 80×80 cm, oil on canvas, 2024

Sebastian Osterhaus
“The nature of my artistic expression offers a glimpse into the world as I perceive it: so challenging in its diversity that, for example, the boundaries between humans, animals, and nature blur.” To express this, the Münster-based artist utilizes cross-media and cross-genre representational possibilities that correspond to his aim of creating a contemporary, powerful, and innovative style of painting. Sebastian Osterhaus is driven by the diverse possibilities of reinventing figurations and translating themes. The resulting works serve as transcriptions and characterizations of human and animal figures on paper and canvas. He draws inspiration from themes in literature and art history, as well as from current politics and traditional folk culture. In a playful manner, employing a variety of techniques, he approaches these themes, both inviting and encouraging dialogue with the viewer.

Sebastian Osterhaus, „Dämmerstimmung“, Oil and mixed media auf Leinwand, 90×120 cm, 2025

Julia Maier
Julia Maier from Berlin is focused on human beings. Her works show portraits coming from the dark space into the light. Most times women going through deep feelings. Looking directly to the viewer or deeply introverted but always very attractive and trustworthy.
The journalistic image is the starting point of the artistic process. The artist must find the image from the media; it must evoke feelings within her. The second step is extracting the essence through the painting process directly on the sheet of paper. In the stillness of the studio – preferably in the very early morning hours – the metamorphosis from photograph to painted work takes place. The third step is the assembly, the pasting of the various image elements onto canvas or wood. A kind of collage is created, which is then further reworked through painting. The traces of this artistic activity remain visible to the viewer.

Julia Maier, „blue“, Acryl on paper on canvas, 100×120 cm, 2024