Lukas Kindermann born 1984 in Germany, lives and works in Munich (GER) and Reykjavík (IS).

Minimalist interventions, technological replications, serial variations, archives of found material - Kindermann challenges our perception. His visually reduced, conceptual works represent today's technologized world in terms of materiality and imagery, while repeatedly referring to historical references. Futuristic 3D duplicates, machine-made drawings, video and site specific installations operate at the interface between art and science, between technology and nature. Controlled coincidence accompanies the perception of nature, which has long since ceased to be untouched in an increasingly technologized world.

From 2005 to 2010 Lukas studied at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (ZKM) with Anna Jermolaewa, Nira Pereg and Aernout Mik and between 2010 and 2013 at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Peter Kogler. Between 2014 and 2019 he teached as assistant teacher with Peter Kogler at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He was visiting teacher for the KUNO Art programme at the Klaipėda Faculty of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania and hold repeadingly lectureships at the University of Television and Film (HFF) Munich. Lukas is part of the curatorial team at ERES-Foundation in Munich.

His works have been shown at Gerdasafn Art Museum (Iceland), Centre Pompidou (Paris), The Living Art Museum (Reykjavík), Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna), Espace Louis Vuitton (Munich), Badischer Kunstverein (Karlsruhe), Asmundursalur (Reykjavík), ERES-Stiftung (Munich), Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe (Ettlingen), Haus der Kunst (Munich), Rathausgalerie (Munich), Gallery of Performing Arts (Prague), Akademiegalerie (Munich), Ve.sch, Raum für aktuelle Kunst (Vienna), Künstlerhaus (Marktoberdorf), Harbinger Project Space (Reykjavik), Broken Dimanche Press (Berlin), 'uns project space (Berlin), Verpackerei (Görisried), No-Festival of Video Art and Animation (Chelyabinsk), National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Saint Petersburg), Horst-Janssen Museum (Oldenburg), Safnahúsið (Reykjavík), Galerie der Künstler (Munich), Art Forum 3 (Freiburg), Raum Kalk (Köln), Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts (Bishkek), Villa Jauss (Obersdorf), E-Werk (Freiburg), The Bookshop Projectspace (Skaftfell), Kunsthalle (Kempten), Kunstraum Super (Vienna), Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (Karlsruhe), Moscow Biennale for Young Art and others.

Publications

The Horses`Morning Bath at Calcutta &
Loading Sand - Pas De Calais: Threatening Weather
Newspaper, 40 pages, 35 x 50 cm, 2019, puplished by ‘uns artbooks Berlin/Reykjavík,
in Cooperation with Studio Studio Reykjavík,
Supported by Erwin & Gisela von Steiner-Stiftung, Munich

Ground Motion Recordings
Artist Book, 2017, 568 Pages, 19,2 x 12,5 x 2,9 cm, published by uns’ artbooks Reykjavík/Berlin,
in Cooperation with Studio Studio Reykjavík

Fragments of the Universe
2014, 96 pages, 24 x 17 cm, published by Revolver Publishers, Berlin

Text

Nature & Technology, Works by Lukas Kindermann, Susanna Partsch
Between publication and exhibition with Lukas Kindermann’s Illustrated London News Editions, Erin Honeycutt for 'artzine, 2020
Magic Moments, Cornelia Gockel in Fragments of the Universe, 2014
Lukas Kindermann 172 cm, Philippe-Alain Michaud in Fragments of the Universe, 2014
Where idea and reality converge, Becky Forsythe in occasion of the Grant for fine Art by the City of Munich, 2016
Questions of Survival, Nira Pereg in Fragments of the Universe, 2014
The Scale of IT All, Erin Honeycutt for 'artzine, 2018
Composing thoughts on Existence from Fragments of the Universe, Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir in Fragments of the Universe, 2014
On the Possibility of Alpine Photography, Susan Funk in occasion of an public art project for The Bavarian State Ministry of Education, Science and the Arts, 2013

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Design
Studio Studio (Arnar Freyr Guðmundsson, Birna Geirfinnsdóttir) with Ívar Björnsson

Coding
Jón Gabríel Lorange

Images
Christoph Morlok
Dominik Gigler
Jaewon Kim
Vigfús Birgisson
and others