Lukas Pusch

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Lukas Pusch (* 1970 in Vienna ) is an Austrian artist who works with the means of painting , performance , installation and conceptual art . He studied painting at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, the Surikow Institute in Moscow and the HfBK Dresden .

life and work

In 2006 Lukas Pusch realized the Vienna Voodoo Performance in Mathare , one of the largest slums in East Africa . He marched through the slum in Nairobi in a white tuxedo. From the documentation of the performance, the follow-up project Slum-TV developed, which he realized in 2007 with his artist friends Sam Hopkins and Alexander Nikolic.

In 2008 Lukas Pusch and his Russian artist colleague Konstantin Skotnikov founded the White Cube Gallery Novosibirsk , the first and then only center for contemporary art in Siberia , in the form of a sheet metal garage. The gallery was an exhibition space and a readymade sculpture in one. A year later they mounted the gallery on the platform of a ZIL-130 truck and organized traveling exhibitions in the Russian-Mongolian border area. On the way back, the artists with their mobile gallery were recognized as the best work of the art biennial in Krasnoyarsk . In 2010 the gallery was robbed by Siberian police officers and was considered lost for some time. In 2010, the Siberian Center of Contemporary Art, the first state center for contemporary art, was opened and the White Cube Gallery Novosibirsk was set up in front of the entrance to the new museum. In 2012 Lukas Pusch was invited by Daniel Hug to present his White Cube Gallery in front of the main entrance of ART Cologne .

The 2010 Christmas edition of the Austrian daily Die Presse , designed by Lukas Pusch with traditional woodcuts , with motifs such as “Burkamadonna with Jesuskind” or “Allah is great and St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna” led to heated discussions and numerous subscription cancellations from angry readership. Nevertheless, the 2011 Christmas edition received a European Newspaper Award .

Together with the Austrian artist TOMAK , Pusch publishes the art magazine Der Antist - the magazine of the Viennese avant-garde .

Lukas Pusch is a son of the politician Hans Pusch , he lives and works in Vienna.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 2005: “Berliner Mappe”, Walther König bookstore , Cologne
  • 2005: “New Works”, endart, Berlin
  • 2006: “5 years of no sex”, SWINGR, raumaufzeit, Vienna
  • 2007: “Vienna Voodoo”, Phillip Konzett Gallery, Vienna
  • 2008: “Kaiserwalzer”, art and antiques fair, Hofburg , Vienna
  • 2008: “Homage to Bianca Lehrer”, Phillip Konzett Gallery, Vienna
  • 2009: “Kaiserwalzer”, Walther König bookstore , MQ, Vienna
  • 2011: "The PRESS Portfolio", Albertina (Vienna)
  • 2011: “New Tahiti”, Ernst Hilger Gallery , Vienna
  • 2012: "White Cube Gallery Novosibirsk at Art Cologne", ART Cologne, Dresden
  • 2012: “New Tahiti”, Galerie Baer, ​​Dresden
  • 2013: “Art Discourse with a Siberian Cow”, Neue Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein, Pfaffenhofen
  • 2013: “Shanghai Boogie Woogie”, Studio 302, Shanghai
  • 2014: “Mozart in China”, Walther König bookstore , MQ, Vienna
  • 2014: "Hurray!", Zucker Art Books, 9th New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1
  • 2014: “Work of a Young Father”, Lust Gallery, Vienna
  • 2015: "German Mosques", CAT Cologne, Cologne
  • 2015: “ Soumission - The Islamization of East Germany”, Weltecho Gallery, Chemnitz
  • 2015: "der Antist", together with TOMAK , Boxunion Favoriten, Vienna

Group exhibitions

  • 2006: “Economy Class”, Alliance francaise de Nairobi, Kenya
  • 2007: 5th International Biennial of Graphics in Novosibirsk
  • 2008: “Kunscht isch it goes risk”, Kunsthalle Luzern
  • 2009: 7th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale
  • 2009: "Fake Reality", Donaufestival , Krems
  • 2010: “Lives and works in Vienna III”, Kunsthalle Wien
  • 2011: “Schöne Aussichten”, Haus am Ufer, special project of the 4th Moscow Biennale, curated by Simon Mraz and Peter Weibel

Publications

  • "Art and Politics", self-published, Vienna 1996
  • "CRASH", Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2008
  • "Afrika", Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2008
  • "Kaiserwalzer", Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2009
  • “Lukas Pusch 2”, Ernst Hilger Gallery, Vienna 2010
  • "ZIL-130", Sensationsverlag, Waldhausen 2013
  • "The Shark Massacre", Harpune Verlag , Vienna 2014
  • "Hooray! 1914-1918 ", edition matthew zucker, New York 2014
  • "German Mosques", CAT Cologne, Cologne 2015
  • “Der Antist - magazine of the Viennese avant-garde”, self-published, Vienna 2015

Web links

Commons : Lukas Pusch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Solmaz Khorsand: "Idealist against his will". In Die Zeit vom February 14, 2008. Available online (accessed January 22, 2012)
  2. ↑ Almuth Spiegler: "Art for rabbits and two shepherds". In: Die Presse of July 18, 2009. Available online (accessed January 22, 2012)
  3. ^ Almuth Spiegler: "Culture Ambassador Lukas Pusch". In: Die Presse of October 31, 2009. Available online (accessed January 22, 2012)
  4. ↑ Roger Levy "Lukas Pusch - Spectacular art theft in Novosibirsk". On KulturTV.ch. Available online (accessed January 22, 2012)
  5. ↑ Art Cologne opening ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Art , April 2012 (accessed September 12, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-magazin.de
  6. ↑ Friederike Leibl and Michael Prüller: "Merry Christmas, we have to be afraid - how absurd". Interview with Lukas Pusch. In: Die Presse of December 23, 2010. Available online (accessed January 22, 2012)
  7. ↑ "Editorial Line: In-House Rating Agency". In: Die Presse from November 20, 2011. Available online (accessed January 22, 2012)
  8. ↑ Roman Tschiedl: Lukas Pusch and TOMAK present their art magazine "The Antist" , Radio Ö1 Leporello from November 9, 2015
  9. ^ Website of Der Antist [1] (accessed on January 3, 2016)
  10. ↑ Solmaz Khorsand: Idealist against his will , Die Zeit , February 14, 2008


personal data
SURNAME Push, Lukas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna