Odile Lueken has lived and worked as a graphic designer and artist in Hamburg for 30 years. She creates versatile compositions and concepts inspired by her work as a graphic designer. Chance, imperfection and experiment characterize her work. In 2020 she completed a 3-year artistic master class at the Augsburg Free Art Academy with Rainer Kaiser.

With her hand-cut collage works, Odile Lueken creates her own imaginative worlds in which figures, creatures and forms are arranged in associative landscapes. Together with open titles such as 'Drowning' or 'Cold Eye', the viewers are guided and stimulated in their reception in a surrealistic manner. These colorful collages made from different materials, such as magazine clippings or photocopies, were reproduced in a second step as monochrome etchings. The collages were first created as a visual form of the daily book, 'temple book', on a trip to Japan. In the meantime, she continued her collection of motifs in everyday life and is working on a third temple book.

The imprint of real objects is also omnipresent in her cyanotypes: maps, folded origami figures or boats. Using the exposure technology developed in 1842, the objects are captured on the paper in impressive cyan blue. In the latest series, the 'Kayiograms', objects collected on the beach (mainly plastic elements and nets) are integrated into folded boats and exposed. In terms of motifs and content, Odile Lueken combines her enthusiasm for Japanese culture and origami folding with current topics such as environmental pollution and the uncertain future of our oceans.