LUKAS MARXT

Within the Artists-in-Residence Program, CCA is delighted to host the artist Lukas Marxt. Born in 1983 in Schladming, Austria, Marxt investigates the traces of human intervention in ostensibly natural spaces like the desert or the Arctic Sea, but also in urban contexts. At times he intervenes himself. He reveals that the places he seeks out, which are usually located at the periphery of economic and political centres, are historically and esthetically charged projection screens for concepts like nostalgia and freedom, and above all pervaded with capitalist structures of exploitation. His videos as well as his installations question regimes of the gaze as well as those of representation. Lukas lives and works in Cologne and will be staying in Studio Verde during June 2023.

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

2022         Little `Sandy Beach´ Boy, Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne, DE

                Argos TV37: Ralfs Farben, Argos, Brussels, BE

2021         Wunderschön with Jakub Vrba, House of Arts, Ústí nad Labem, CZ

2019         Imperial Valley, STATE Studio, Berlin, DE

2018         Reign of Silence, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA

                For Our Nation, Fructa Space, Munich, DE

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2022          Land Marks, Le Plaza Cinema, Geneva, CH

                 Emotions are Oceans, RADIUS, Center for Contemporary Art, Delft, NL

                 ALL THE PRETTY LANDSCAPES, Persons Projects, Berlin, DE

2021          Monitoring: Myth and Microgravity, Kulturbahnhof, Kassel, DE

                 Refresh, DDE, Paimpol, FR