Lukas Pusch

Lukas Pusch, born in Vienna in 1970, studied painting at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, the Surikov Institute in Moscow and the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden. Although his works are often regarded as provocative, his priority is image-finding and artistic autonomy. His working method might be called a combination of psychoanalytical free association and research.
His most spectacular works, which have received worldwide recognition, include the founding of the first Centre for Contemporary Art in Siberia (2008) and of Slum TV (2006), a local TV station in Mathare, Nairobi – one of the largest slums in Africa. The Christmas edition of the daily newspaper Die Presse, illustrated with his woodcuts, received the international European Press Award twice in succession.

Solo exhibitions
2015 Deutsche Moscheen, CAT, Cologne (DE). Shanghai Boogie Woogie, Halle, MQ, Vienna. Soumission, weltecho.Galerie, Chemnitz (DE). 2014 Arbeiten eines Jungvaters, Lust Gallery, Vienna. 1. Wiener Luftausstellung, public space, Vienna. 2013 Kunstdiskurs mit einer sibirischen Kuh, Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein (DE). 2012 Siberian White Cube goes Art Cologne, main entrance, ART Cologne. 2011 Die Presse Künstlermappe, Albertina, Vienna. Neues Tahiti, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna.

Group exhibitions
2014 In Search of the Horizon, Institute for Contemporary Art, Riga. 2011 Gute Aussichten, special project at the 4th Moscow Biennial, Haus am Ufer, Moscow. 2010 Lebt und arbeitet in Wien III, Kunsthalle, Vienna. 2009 Ferne – 8. Krasnoyarsk Museums Biennale, Museum Centre and public space, Krasnoyarsk (RU).

Publications
Lukas Pusch & TOMAK (eds.), der Antist, self-published, Vienna 2015.
Deutsche Moscheen, exh. cat. CAT Cologne, 2015.
Hurra! 1914–1918, Zucker Art Books, New York 2014.
Kunstdiskurs mit einer sibirischen Kuh, exh. cat. Kunstverein Pfaffenhofen, 2013.
ZIL-130, Sensationsverlag, Waldhausen 2013.