Luca Lazar

I was born in 1957 in Tbilisi, Georgia (former Soviet Union) where I was raised. As a child I was fascinated with the world that surrounded me - the many forces at work, the vitality and scale of things. The complexity was beyond my understanding. To find an answer I started to draw. Art was to power the flight of my imagination and overcome uncertainty. I felt free not looking at physical appearances but searching for the spiritual traces of these elemental powers. It took much experimentation to distill my point of interest, I wanted to express my individual way of seeing the world.

I wanted to become a professional artist and received a traditional Soviet-style art education at the Tbilisi State Academy and subsequently in the prestigious Aspirantura program. In my late twenties, following a quite organic discovery, I started to expiriment with abstract art, an art form that was not allowed according to the Soviet guidelines and certainly not welcomed in conservative Georgia of that time. As my new work was getting push back, I needed to find another place to seek an outlet for my artistic zeal.

My migration first took me to avant-garde Moscow by that time dominated by the first signs of Perestroika and Glasnost, then to ...

1976-1982

Georgian State Art Academy, Tbilisi (MA)

2009
“Born in Georgia” , Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, NL, (K)
“L’Art Contemporian De Georgie” Chateau de Saint-Auvent, (France)
‘’ Tbilissi Underground’ 09’’ (France)

2008
‘’Paris Montparnasse Tbilissi’’ Le Musse du Montparnsse, Paris, (France) (K)


2005/2006
“Moving Stills”, Gallery Schüppenhauer, Cologne (Germany)

2004
“Art from Perestroika till today”, State Art Museum, Tbilisi (Georgia) –(k)
“Invitation to a Beheading”, Gallery Schüppenhauer, Cologne (Germany)

2003
"Statements Basel-Köln”, Gallery Kämpf, Basel (Switzerland) and Gallery Schüppenhauer, Cologne (Germany)

2002
“ART Frankfurt” (Germany)

2001
"One-liners", Gallery Jule Kewenig Frechen-Bachem (Germany)

2000
"The White Curtain", Gallery Schüppenhauer, Cologne (Germany)

1999
"Fazit" - Moving Images, Neon-installation, Gallery Schüppenhauer, Cologne (Germany)

1998
"The ANGEL" installation - Kunsthalle Trier, (Germany)
"Transformation" Installation - UNESCO, Paris (France)-(k)
"The Bridging" Installation art in public space, Cologne (Germany)
"Opposite of Eden" Installation, Art House Kaufbeuren (Germany)-(k)
"Dialogue" Museum for Regional History and Art, Buxtehude (Germany) - (k)

1997
"The Conscience" - "STA...