Michael Lukas

„Making visibility the theme in his work, paintings by Michael Lukas do not implement the traditional model of critical reflection in that they reference and certify their own visibility. When this presumed identity is infiltrated by the opposite, it then becomes a fragile inner borderline between visibility and invisibility.” (1)

The pictorial space is modulated by cloudy, meandering, gasiform, web-like, honeycombed, and frothy structures. Capturing and leading the viewer's gaze into a labyrinth of line and color, it reveals the infinite scope of our imagination. The viewer supposes to have found his or her bearings, but this certainty vanishes at the moment of obliteration inherent in the pictorial process.

“Pictorial processes that otherwise only serve to engender visibility, redouble here in that they turn against themselves.” (2)

Variable, mutually overlaying picture elements are placed upon the floor or propped up against a console, remaining a painterly installation in a space of probability.

The simultaneous existence of events regarded from different perspectives is a central theme of the artist’s oeuvre. With respect to time, works by Michael Lukas always refer to the NOW, the moment they are viewed, reflectin...

1981
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich graduated the masterclass of Prof. Daniel Spoerri

1987
Diploma

1996–2007
Assistant and Teaching Assignment at the Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Munich

2015 - 2018
Teaching Assignment at Summeracademie Neuburg / Donau

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ARBEITEN IM ÖFFENTLICHEN UND PRIVATEN BESITZ:

Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, München / Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt / Kunstsammlung des Landes Baden-Württemberg, Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe / Universität, Leipzig, Internationales Begegnungszentrum „Werner-Heisenberg-Haus“, Leipzig / Landesmuseum für Natur und Mensch, Oldenburg / Lufthansa Cargo, Frankfurt / Sammlung Günter Westermann, Rastatt / sowie zahlreiche private Sammlungen in München, Berlin, San Francisco, Wien


CHRONOLOGISCHE AUSWAHL DER AUSSTELLUNGEN UND PROJEKTE

2023 Kunst aktuell, Städtische Galerie Rosenheim
2020 ambig, Gruppenausstellung in der Galerie der Künstler München mit Betke, Gordillo u.a.
2019 areale, Kunstverein Ebersberg
2019 Kunst aktuell 2019, Städtische Galerie Rosenheim (K)
2018 ImMobilE, wir könnten unbemerkt verschwunden sein, streitfeld I projektraum
2018 TANDEM – maps & cuts, Städtische Galerie Neuburg / Donau (mit Kathrin Pfaff-Lukas)
2017 6:9 Weltversprechen, Kunst im Bau, Gabrielenstrasse 9, München
kuratiert von Rasha Ragab und Christoph Nicolaus
2016 zeit:zonen, Kulturwerkstatt HAUS 10, Kloster Fürstenfeld (K)
2016 occupied corner, GiG Munich (K) (Einzelkatalog mit einem Textbeitrag von Dr....