Croy Nielsen

Lukas Kaufmann

Images

Lukas Kaufmann, untitled, 2025, Wood, textile, brass pigment, ribbons, jute, photo, 110 × 79 × 149 cm

Lukas Kaufmann, untitled, 2025, Wood, textile, brass pigment, ribbons, jute, photo, 110 × 79 × 149 cm

Lukas Kaufmann, untitled, 2025, Wood, textile, brass pigment, ribbons, jute, photo, 110 × 79 × 149 cm

Lukas Kaufmann, untitled, 2025, Wood, textile, brass pigment, ribbons, jute, photo, 110 × 79 × 149 cm

Lukas Kaufmann, untitled, 2026, Moiré silk, passementerie, wood, jute, lacquer, 68 × 110 × 30 cm

Lukas Kaufmann, untitled, 2026, Moiré silk, passementerie, wood, jute, lacquer, 68 × 110 × 30 cm

Lukas Kaufmann, untitled, 2025 / 26, Cardboard, digital print, brass, lacquer, jute, pewter, 32 × 34 × 16 cm

Lukas Kaufmann, untitled, 2025 / 26, Cardboard, digital print, brass, lacquer, jute, pewter, 32 × 34 × 16 cm

Lukas Kaufmann, Untitled, 2024, varnish, water, digital print on folded paper, 24,5 × 16cm

Lukas Kaufmann, Untitled, 2024, varnish, water, digital print on folded paper, 24,5 × 16cm

Lukas Kaufmann, Chest LDR, 2024, brass, digital print, cardboard, 27,2 × 17,5 × 16cm

Lukas Kaufmann, Chest LDR, 2024, brass, digital print, cardboard, 27,2 × 17,5 × 16cm

Lukas Kaufmann, Installation view A Year of Rest and Relaxation, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2025, photo by Kun​st​doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Lukas Kaufmann, Installation view A Year of Rest and Relaxation, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2025, photo by Kun​st​doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Lukas Kaufmann, untitled, 2024, Brass, digital print, cardboard, ribbon, 35.2 × 15.6 × 19 cm

Lukas Kaufmann, untitled, 2024, Brass, digital print, cardboard, ribbon, 35.2 × 15.6 × 19 cm

Lukas Kaufmann, Installation view A Year of Rest and Relaxation, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2025, photo by Kun​st​doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Lukas Kaufmann, Installation view A Year of Rest and Relaxation, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2025, photo by Kun​st​doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Lukas Kaufmann, untitled, 2024, Varnish, water, digital print on folded paper, 79.4 × 55.4 × 3.5 cm (framed)

Lukas Kaufmann, untitled, 2024, Varnish, water, digital print on folded paper, 79.4 × 55.4 × 3.5 cm (framed)

Lukas Kaufmann, untitled, 2025, Digital print, cardboard, ribbons, 58 × 31 × 12 cm

Lukas Kaufmann, untitled, 2025, Digital print, cardboard, ribbons, 58 × 31 × 12 cm

Lukas Kaufmann, untitled, 2025, Digital print, cardboard, ribbons, 58 × 31 × 12 cm

Lukas Kaufmann, untitled, 2025, Digital print, cardboard, ribbons, 58 × 31 × 12 cm

Lukas Kaufmann, untitled, 2024, varnish, water, digital print on folded paper, 14 × 22,5cm

Lukas Kaufmann, untitled, 2024, varnish, water, digital print on folded paper, 14 × 22,5cm

CV

Lukas Kaufmann
*1993, Klagenfurt, Austria — Vienna

Education

2013 – 2021 Transmedia Art, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Brigitte Kowanz
2011 – 2013 Architecture, Technical University Vienna
 

Awards, Scolarships

2025 Scolarship Cité des Artes, Paris
2021 Honorary Prize Kunsthalle, Vienna
2013 Scolarship Sommerakademie, Salzburg
2012 Pfann-Ohmann-Preis, Faculty of Architecture and Room Planning, Vienna


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025
Palampore, Hoast, Vienna

2024
LADEN, the Office, Vienna 

2022
Around the horizon, corners implode (with Luize Nezberte), Ag Gallery, Riga 

2021
BetweenBetween, Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna 

2018
Projekt OT, permanent Installation in Public Space, Vienna 

2017
Rotonda Alte Donau, Tower, Vienna 

2016
erase, rewind (with Christian Weidner), Fait Gallery, Brno 


Selected Group Shows

2026
Lebt und Arbeitet in Wien, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (Upcoming)
Above, Below, Between, UA26, Vienna 

2025
A year of Rest and Relaxation, Croy Nielsen, Vienna 
Upstairs Artfair, Hotel Grande Amour, Paris 
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna 

2023
Neue Ambitionen, Bundeskanzleramt, Vienna 
All work and time an care, Zina Gallery, Cluj 

2022
always more then one, Periode, Berlin 
Handspells, Kunshalle, Vienna
Characters, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna 
Brigitte Kowanz ETC, Parallel, Vienna 

2021
Under arched ceilings, Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten, Vienna
Chambre d’Ami·xes, Laurenz, Vienna 
The great Outdoors, Stadtpark, Graz 

2020
intermezzo Glass pavilion in the Campo Mártires da Pátria, Lisbon 

2019
Doing Deculturalisation, Exhibition Design, MUSEION, Bolzano

2018
Filter Bubble, Künstlerhaus, Klagenfurt 
Kurs, Raum 103 Klingental, Basel 

2017
lightness and matter, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna 
Sediments of Union; Europäisches Forum Alpbach, Alpbach 
Tractatus Locus, Wittgensteinhaus, Vienna 

2016
EMOZIONALE, Via Cesare Balbo, Mailand 
Millenials, Breitegasse 11, Vienna 
Performative Reading, 21er Haus, Vienna 

2015
Out of the Blue, wellwellwell, Vienna 
Small, SUPER, Vienna 

2014
All In, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna 
Toons Like Us (Reprise), curated by Melanie Ohnemus, wellwellwell, Vienna