LENKA DELLA-PORTA

Lenka Della-Porta (b.2000) is a British Japanese visual artist and curator living in London. With a background in illustration she completed her undergraduate study at Camberwell College of Art.

Working primarily in graphite and charcoal, her practice explores the boundaries between personal experience, identity, and secrecy. She draws out characters and objects in surreal scenarios that function as the pages of a diary. Informed by memory and introspection, Lenka’s work observes the self in proximity her mixed heritage and diasporic experience regarding femininity, morality, and social culture. Her work visualises her dual exposure in her upbringing, challenging the contrast in her experiences: Childhood and adulthood, belonging and displacement, confidence and hypocrisy, truth and secrecy.

CONTACT

lenka.dp@hotmail.co.uk
@lenkadellaporta

Intertwined, Indefinitely
Charcoal on wood board
20cm x 30cm
2026

Self Contained
Graphite, sticker, tissue & tracing paper, written note
3.5cm x 8.9cm
2026

Can You Feel It?
Charcoal on canvas
46cm x 61cm
2025

Shadow Puppet
Charcoal on wood board
20cm x 30cm
2025

someone somewhere 2025

Someone Somewhere
Charcoal and acrylic on wood
50cm x 70cm
2025

Game On
Charcoal, graphite and acrylic on canvas
70cm x 100cm
2025

Reminder To Cry
Graphite on paper
41cm x 59cm
202

Almost Cut My Hair
Graphite on paper
59cm x 41cm
2024

Like Rain
Graphite on paper
21cm x 29.7cm
2023

Girlcoded
Diamonte, tracing paper, graphite paper
29.7cm x 21cm
2023

Locket
Graphite on paper
29.7cm x 21cm
2023

Starstruck
Graphite on paper
21cm x 29.7cm

Points of Interest

The Chapel, St Margaret’s House
27th February - 1st March 2026

Works by Obi Agwam, June Chan, Lenka Della-Porta, Mwathi Gakonga, Maya Gan, Jay Johnson, Miya Kosowick, Jiho Lee, Anna Linton, Cosima Von Moreau, Solomon Warner, Yilin Wong, and Varya Yakovleva

Curated by Lenka Della-Porta & Yilin Wong

We are drawn to ideas about time passing and nostalgia; each experience is like a strip of fabric woven into a dissonant quilt. We yearn for places we moved away from, and for a familiarity that fades as our identities change along with our surroundings. Physical objects become our only means of preserving an intangible timeline, driven by a desire to immortalise our memories, experiences, and the spaces that shape them.

As the world and our lives unfold, we often feel disoriented by change - especially in moments of loss, when things no longer feel where they should be. Yearning becomes a constant when navigating change - one that spills into our creative practice. We search for the repetition in figures, symbols, and patterns we recognise, using them to connect with others and recognise shared experiences.

Points of Interest reflects on the isolation of adolescence and the unfolding of individuation, acknowledging how personal memories can resonate through a collective experience.

Text by Curators

LENKA DELLA-PORTA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

‘Points of Interest’, group show curated by Lenka Della-Porta and Yilin Wong, The Chapel, St Margaret’s House, London, February 2026

‘Madeleine’, group show presented by Qloud Collective, Noho Showrooms, Soho, London, December 2025

‘Attention Without Object’, group exhibition presented by Pistil Collective, Candid Arts Trust, Angel, London, October 2025

‘Fatigue/Vitality’, Group exhibition presented by Ticket Inspector Collective, Piehouse Co-Op, Deptford, London, October 2025

‘Racecar’, Group exhibition curated by Connie Ashford and Katya Hudson, Safehouse 1 & 2, Peckham, London, October 2025

‘Auto Amor Project Vol.2’, Group exhibition presented by Auto Amor, The Art House, London, October 2025

‘HER’, Group exhibition, Camden Open Air Gallery, Camden, London, May - June 2025

‘Curated Collective 1.0’, Group exhibition, Bread & Butter Lounge, Shoreditch, London, May 2025

‘Endless’, Group exhibition presented by TRIBE, Oxford House, Bethnal Green, London, March 2025

‘Lenka Della-Porta’, Solo exhibition, Avalon Cafe, Deptford, London, February-March 2024

‘Shapes and Things’, Group exhibition presented by Shapes and Things, Projection Room, Soho, London, February 2024

‘Full Circle: 153°’, Group exhibition, UAL Camberwell College of Arts, Camberwell, London, June 2023

‘Lunar New Year’, Group exhibition, UAL Camberwell College of Arts, Camberwell, London, December 2020

‘Hastings Rising Talent’, Group exhibition, Hastings Forum, Hastings, September 2019

PRESS

Young Blood | Interview by Augustine Hammond
TANK Magazine, The Education Issue (2023)

PUBLICATONS

Young Londoners on community, connection and their hopes for 2026 | Photographed by Vivek Vadoliya
EE72 (2026)

Rebirth
Aether Magazine, The Rebirth Issue (2024)

Natto Girl
Aether Magazine, The Graduation Issue (2021)

PROJECTS

Running With Scissors | Album Design
Cavetown (2026)

Re:Home
Baesianz (2025)

© 2025 by Lenka Della-Porta