Lukas Pusch, born in Vienna in 1970, studied painting at the
Vienna University of Applied Arts, the Surikov Institute in Moscow and the
Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Although his works are frequently seen as
provocative, his primary concern is image-finding and artistic autonomy. His
working method may be described as a combination of research and
psychoanalytical free association. His most spectacular works, recognised
worldwide, include the founding of Siberia’s first centre for contemporary art
(2008) and of Slum TV (2006) a local broadcasting station in Mathare,
Nairobi – one of the largest slums in the whole of Africa. The Christmas
edition of the daily newspaper Die Presse (2010), illustrated with Pusch
woodcuts, received the 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 – 8th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Museum Centre and public
space, Krasnoyarsk (RU).
Publications
Lukas Pusch & TOMAK (eds.), der
Antist, self-published, Vienna 2015 and 2016.
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.
