Lukas Thaler

Lukas Thaler (*1989) lives and works in Vienna. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Kunstverein Siegen GER, Kunstverein Eisenstadt AT, Galerie Martin Janda Vienna AT, White&Weiss Gallery Bratislava SVK, Ján Koniarek Gallery Trnava SVK, Berlínskej Model Prague CZ, Bruch & Dallas Cologne GER, Exile Vienna AT, In Spite Of Porto PRT, Ed. Varie New York City USA, Belvedere 21 Vienna AT, Sans Titre Paris FR, MUSA Vienna AT, Guimarães Vienna AT, Celine Glasgow UK, Ginny London UK, Ferdinandeum Innsbruck AT, Club Pro Los Angeles USA, and Drop City Newcastle USA. Since 2012, he has been running the curatorial project MAUVE together with Titania Seidl.

Thaler’s artistic practice consists of a broad spectrum of two- and three dimensional objects. The central motif of his work is the inscription of meaning onto form. Its identification, naming and legibility are the subject of his painterly and sculptural oeuvre. Thaler’s groups of works and ongoing series emerge in an iterative process shaped by his experimental use of materials and various media. Variation, sequence and repetition are important aspects of his method. He correlates the individual objects to closely examine their interdependence. Manual gestures overlap with traces of digital technologies, the abstract mingles with the concrete and reality blends with fiction. Thaler’s pieces can be identified as protagonists or characters, they take on varying roles. The motif of animating or activating allegedly dead matter is central in his work.

On the occasion of the exhibition a text by Vanessa Joan Müller will be released.
Joint opening with Wonnerth Dejaco.