Lukas Duwenhögger: Undoolay

Artists Space New York presents a solo exhibition by the artist Lukas Duwenhögger: Undoolay.

Lukas Duwenhögger‘s work is characterised by a reiteration of encounters between different men that embrace a moment of personal, social and sexual recognition. Posing and exchanging glances, Duwenhögger’s characters casually embrace brief instants of physical contact and implicit sexual tension. As part of his artistic strategy, Duwenhögger makes use of the insinuation as a means of communication. The insinuations and the humour indicate a will to survive under oppressive circumstances. The strength lies in ignoring reality and instead creating new imagination-inciting worlds as a promise of other possible realities.

Lukas Duwenhögger is a German painter, born in Munich, 1956. Duwenhögger studied at the art academy in Munich and Dusseldorf and currently lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. The Celestial Teapot was first exhibited in 2007 at Documenta 12 in Kassel. Works by Duwenhögger have previously been exhibited in Malmö Konsthall in 1998. Lukas Duwenhögger has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Galerie Neu. Several works by the artist have been sold at auction, including ‘Birds of Istanbul’ sold at Phillips London ‘Contemporary Art Day’ in 2014.