Lukas Marxt
*1983, AT
Teaching
SS 2022 Substitute Professor for Film & Video, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
WS 2021 Substitute Professor for Film & Video, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Education
2012 MFA, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany
2009 – 2011 “Meisterschüler” programme, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Germany
2007 – 2008 Institute Arte Multimédia, Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisboa, Portugal
2004 – 2009 University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz, Austria
2003 – 2004 Environmental Systems Sciences – Geography, University Graz, Austria
Selected Awards and Scholarships
2025 New York Residency of the Federal Culture Ministry of Austria, USA
2024 Norman 2024 – Jury Award for film and video, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Germany
2023 Locarno – Festival Int. de film (Honorable Mention of Pardi Verde Ricola Jury)
2022 NEUSTARTplus-Stipendium
2021 Project Grant Kunststiftung NRW, Germany
2020 ZINEBI Grand Award at the 62nd International Festival, Bilbao
Stiftung Kunstfonds Sonderförderprogramm 20/21 NEUSTART KULTUR
Sonderfonds der Kunststiftung NRW
2019 Shortlisted for Förderpreis für Filmkunst, Berlin
Austrian State Scholarship for Media Art
Prix des nouveaux alchimistes Montréal – Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
Prix de l´expérimentation MUBI, Montréal – Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
Award of the German Film Critics
2018 EMAF Media Art Award, award of the German Film Critics
Premio Principado de Asturias al Mejorcortometraje, Gijón, Spain
Jury Award Short Film Festival Cologne, Germany
Project Grant Kunststiftung NRW, Germany
2017 USA Grant, NRW-Ministry MfKJKS, Germany
Project grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany
Nominee German Shortfilmprize, Germany
2016 START-Stipendium for Video- and Mediaart, BKA, Vienna, Austria
Art Prize of the Energie AG, Linz, Austria
2014 Diagonale Prize for Innovative Cinema, Austria
Scholarship Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany
Lentos Art Award, Linz, Austria
Abroad Scholarship for Film, Graz, Austria
Forum Scholarship, Linz Austria
Media Art Prize Horb, Germany
Special mentions, Diagonale Graz, Austria
Special mentions, Edith-Russ-Haus Award for Emerging Media Artists, Oldenburg
The TFHMF Award, Stockholm, Sweden
2013 Marler Video Art-Prize, Marl, Germany
Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Spiridon Neven Dumont Prize, Cologne, Germany
2012 The Arctic Circle Residency Program, USA
2011 RWE Visit Stipendium, Germany
2010 Promotion Prize of the State of Styria, Austria
2009 Federal Ministary of Education, Science and Culture, Austria
Traileraward Filmriss, Salzburg, Austria
2007 Juryprize Filmriss, Salzburg, Austria
Special mentions, Crossing Europe, Linz, Austria
Selected Solo Exhibition
2024 Searching for reflections in the toxic field of plenty, Sonic Acts Biennial, Amsterdam
2022 „Little `Sandy Beach´ Boy“ Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne
Argos TV37: Ralfs Farben, Argos, Brussels, Belgium
2021 Wunderschön with Jakub Vrba, House of Arts, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
2019 Kunsthalle Graz, Austria
Imperial Valley, STATE Studio, Berlin
2018 Reign of Silence, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles
For Our Nation, Fructa Space, Munich, Germany
Raum D: Digitale Projekte with Vanja Smiljanic, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz
2017 I ain´t coming down, 8 Quadrat, Cologne, Germany
Imperial Valley (cultivated run-off), Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna, Austria
2016 From Light to Cold, Weisse Haus, Vienna, Austria
Circular Inscription, 8 Quadrat, Köln, Germany
Selected Works by Lukas Marxt, Black Box Screening, Argos, Brussels
Echoes from the Sky, Quatier am Hafen, with Vanja Smiljanic
Lukas Marxt, OK Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria
It seems to be loneliness but it is not with Jakub Vrba, Pinacoteca, Vienna
2015 Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna, Austria
Wunderschön und gut gelegen with Jakub Vrba, Schneiderei, Vienna
2014 Studio Brugmann with Marcel Odenbach, Brussels, Belgium
Captive Horizon, Schmidt & Handrup, Cologne, Germany
Current Interception, Ortloff, Leipzig, Germany
Oscillated Horizon, Bruch & Dallas, Cologne, Germany
2013 Solid Interseption, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Directed Oscillation, Walzwerk, Düsseldorf, Germany
02:44:42 Ich habe Spaghetti gekocht, ich weiß nicht, wer ich bin. Ich habe ein Problem mit Mais. Das kann an der Dosis liegen. Ich nehme wieder ab. Ich habe schon mein ganzes Leben ein Problem mit Mais. Ich esse ihn gekocht mit Majonäse und mit Salat, Studio Dumont, Cologne, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Artists for Nature, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
Ecosystem Assembly, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain
Field Notes of the Planetary, ifa-Galerie Stuttgart, Germany
2022 “Land Marks”, Le Plaza Cinema, Geneva, Switzerland
Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Aachen
Emotions are Oceans, RADIUS, Center for Contemporary Art, Delft, Netherlands
Nona kunstencentrum, Mechelen, Belgium
ALL THE PRETTY LANDSCAPES, Persons Projects, Berlin, Germany
2021 Liverpool Biennale
Monitoring: Myth and Microgravity, Kulturbahnhof, Kassel, Germany
Refresh, DDE, Paimpol, France
STATES. SOLID MATTER, Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn
PROYECTOR, Madrid, Spanien
Hitting Puberty, IMAI-Videolounge im NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf
2020 Critical Zones, ZKM, Karlsruhe
A Long Time Short, Kai 10, Düsseldorf
Reisebüro, Weisse Haus, Vienna
umwelten, Setareh x, Düsseldorf
2019 Förderpreis für Filmkunst, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art– Berlin
WRO Media Art Biennale, Wrocław, Polen
PROYECTOR, Madrid, Spanien
Flemish Arts Centre De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
Sehnsuchtsräume, Landesgalerie Niederösterreich, Austria
2018 VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images, Florenz, Italy
Force of Nature, Steve Turner Galerie, Los Angeles
Escape, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
Lilla Domedagsvalvet (Little Doomsday Vault), Ockelbo, Sweden
Höhenrausch, OK Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria
The Biennial of Painting, Deurle – Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium
`Now you are in the Middle`Horbachstiftung, Köln, Deutschland
Wasser, Bethlehemkirche in Meerbusch Büderich, Germany
2017 ALMLA, The Artist Loft Museum, Los Angeles
House Turtel, Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft, Cologne
Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve Biennial, Brussels
Don’t call it off-space, Weisse Haus, Vienna
On Photography, Stifting imai, Düsseldorf, Germany
2016 waterproof, Klingental, Basel, Swiss
A Thousand Horsepower, Barcelona, Spain
Energie AG, Linz, Austria
2015 Landschaft: Transformation einer Idee, Neuen Galerie, Graz, Austria
Monitoring, Kasseler Dok Festival, Germany
Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, Germany
Art Nova 100, Beijing, China
Landscape in Motion, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria
WRO Media Art Biennale, Wrocław, Poland
Landscape in Motion, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Terra Incognita, K.I.T., Düsseldorf, Germany
Suburban PS, Rotterdam, Netherlands
An Earthquake at the Racetracks, Museo de la Ciudad Guerrero, Mexico
Arte Laguna Prize, Arsenale, Venice, Italy
Kunstfestival Strom, Kunsthaus Rhenania, Cologne
LIQUID IDENTITIES, Ferry Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2014 Beyond the Summit, Schmidt & Handrup, Berlin, Germany
Edith-Russ-Haus Award for Emerging Media Artists, Oldenburg, Germany
Lentos Art Award, Lentos, Linz, Austria
Restaurering av inre rum, Stockholm, Sweden
Unbroken Cold Chain, Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna, Austria
new talents – biennale cologne 2014, Cologne, Germany
2013 Medienkunstpreis Horb, Germany
Marler Medienkunst-Preise, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Germany
Landschaft, Ausstellungshalle, Frankfurt, Germany
PLAY, Galerie Ampersand, Cologne, Germany
Vkunst, Frankfurt, Germany
21. Bundeswettbewerb „KunststudentInnen stellen aus“, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
medien.kunst.sammeln, Perspektiven einer Sammlung, Kunsthaus Graz
My Eyes Hurt, ArtCologne, Cologne, German
2012 Contemporary Art Ruhr, Essen, Germany
SUBTEX Screening, Bergamo, Italy
Industriada, Katowize, Poland
trau, schau, wem; TopKino, Vienna, Austria
2011 Lindenow, Leipzig, Germany
Rundgang, KHM Cologne, Germany
People tell me I am white and I believe them, Cologne, Germany
In Between Austria Contemporary, Gasometer, Triesen, Lichtenstein
2010 Lange Nacht der Kölner Museen, Germany
Förderungspreis des Landes Steiermark für zeitgenössische bildende Kunst
Beijing International Art Biennale, China
Kleine Dinge, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany
In Between Austria Contemporary, Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst Podgorica, Montenegro
Kadir Has University Rezzan Has Museum, Istanbul, Turky
2009 Celeiro Comum, Avenida, Lissabon, Portugal
Three completly disconnected works, Sala Bebe, Lissabon, Portugal
In Between Austria Contemporary, Multifunctional Cultural Center, Nikosia
Kunstgalerie Split, Croatia
Selected Festivals
2024 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Germany
GoShorts, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, Israel
2023 Locarno Film Festival, Swiss
Viennale, Vienna, Austria
ZINEBI, Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films
Filmmaker Filmfest, Milan, Italy
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
Diagonale, Graz, Austria
American Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland
2022 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
International Human Rights & Documentary Festival, Romania
VIS Vienna Shorts, Wien, Austria
Go Short, International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, Netherlands
Short Waves Festival, Poznán, Poland
Sprachspiel. Biennale West. Vienna, Austria
Diagonale, Graz, Austria
2021 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
Duisburg – Filmwoche – doxs! kino, Duisburg, Germany
CURTOCIRCUÍTO, Film Festival Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel, Germany
Diagonale, Graz, Austria
Paris – Rencontres International Paris/Berlin/Madrid
Guanajuato – Festival internacional de Cine
GegenKino, Leipzig, Germany
EMAF, Osnabrück, Germany
NEW POINT OF VIEW, European online competition
2020 Viennale, Vienna, Austria
Montreal Festival du nouveau cinéma
ZINEBI,Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films
Moscow International Experimental Film Festival
Diagonale, Graz, Austria
EMAF, Osnabrück, Germany
Lissabon – KINO Festival des deutschsprachigen Films
Hamburg – Dokumentarfilmwoche
2019 Locarno Film Festival, Swiss
Viennale, Vienna, Austria
Duisburger Filmwoche, Duisburg, Germany
Montreal Festival du nouveau cinéma
Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil
CURTOCIRCUÍTO, International Film Festival Santiago de Compostela
Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA
Ulju Mountain Film Festival, Korea
MFFK Febiofest, Bratislava, Slovakia
Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg
CinemAmbiente, Turin, Italy
Diagonale, Graz, Austria
Curtocircuíto International Film Festival, Spain
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Germany
2018 Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Germany
25 FPS Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands
UNDERDOX FILM FESTIVAL, München, Germany
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic
Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden
Imagine Science Film Festival, New York, USA
Indie Cork Festival, Irland
Shortzfilmfestival, Novi Sad, Serbia
Short Film Festival Cologne, Germany
Festival Int de Cortometrajes de Aguilar de Campoo, Spain
Curtocircuíto International Film Festival, Spain
Antimatter, Victoria, Canada
Gijon Intl Film Festival, Spain
dokumentART, Neubrandenburg, Grermy
Edinburgh – Take One Action Film Festival
Aesthetica Short Film Festival
ARKIPEL int. Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Jakarta
Diagonale, Graz, Austria
Palm Springs International ShortFest, CA, USA
VIDEOEXperimental, Video & Film Festival, Zürich, Swiss
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic
Curtas Vila do Conde, Vila do Conde, Portugal
Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scottland, UK
Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico
Filmfest Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Moscow International Experimental Film Festival
European Film Festival Palić, Hungary
Ulju Mountain Film Festival, Korea
Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg, Germany
EMAF, Osnabrück, Germany
VIS Vienna Shorts, Wien, Austria
Internationales Kurz Film Festival Hamburg, Germany
International Film Clubs Festival, Febiofest, Slovakia
DOKUFEST, Prizren, Kosovo
Rencontres Internationales Paris, France
Kurzfilmfestival Kufstein, Austria
Exground Filmfest, Wiesbaden, Germany
LICHTER Film Festival Frankfurt International, Germany
Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Scotland
2017 Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Germany
Viennale – Vienna Int. Film Festival, Wien, Austria
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg, Germany
BFI, London, UK
Antimatter, Victoria, Canada
Marienbad Film Festival, Czech Republic
Go Short, International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, Netherlands
goEast – Festival of central-and eastern european Film, Wiesbaden
Diagonale, Graz, Austria
VIS Vienna Shorts, Wien, Austria
EMAF, Osnabrück, Germany
VIDEOEXperimental, Video & Film Festival, Zürich, Swiss
REGARD – Saguenay International Short Film Festival, Canada
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Germany
klub katarakt, International Festival for Experimental Music, Hamburg
2016 Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel, Germany
International Short Film Week Regensburg, Germany
IndieCork Festival, Cork, Ireland
Viennale, Vienna, Austria
L’âge d’Or Festival – CINEMATEK Brussels, Belgium
Festival of Endless Gratitude, Copenhagen, Denmark
Unsafe+Sounds Festival, Vienna, Austria
Ankara International Filmfestival, Turky
Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Colambia
Internationales Kurz Film Festival Hamburg, Germany
EFFA Environmental Film Festival, Albania
Courtisane Filmestival, Belgium
New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
Diagonale, Graz, Austria
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Germany
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg, Germany
2015 CPH:DOX Film Festival, Copenhagen, Danmark
Filmmaker Festival, Milano, Italy
Izmir Short Film Festival, Turky
Indie Cork Festival, Irland
Molodist International Film Festival, Ukraine
Kasseler Dok Festival, Germany
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands
International Film Festival of new Film, Split, Croacia
International Filmfestival Milano, Italy (Titel: Aurora Naturalis)
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
International Shortfilmfestival Leuven, Belgium
Backup Festival, Weimar, Germany
Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg, Germany
Diagonale, Graz, Austria
Indie Lisboa, Lissabon, Portugal
Tampere Short Film Festival, Tampere, Finland
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Germany
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France
2014 Duisburger Filmwoche, Duisburg, Germany
Onetakefilmfestival, Zagreb, Croatia
Kasseler Dokfest 2014, Kassel, Germany
DokuFest, Prizren, Kosovo
Internationales KurzFilmFestival Hamburg, Germany
Backup Festival, Weimar, Germany
EMAF, Osnabrück, Germany
Diagonale, Graz, Austria
Vienna Independent Short, Vienna, Austria
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
Nashville Film Festival, USA
Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg, Germany
20th Bradford International Film Festival, United Kingdom
Indie Lisboa, Lissabon, Portugal
Hong Kong International Filmfestival, Hong Kong, China
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Germany
Fullframe Kunstfestival, Vienna, Austria
2013 exground filmfest 26 , Wiesbaden, Germany
Kasseler Dokfest 2013, Kassel, Germany
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Check
Duisburger Filmwoche, Duisburg, Germany
25 FPS Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
Rencontres Internationales, Berlin, Germany
Diagonale, Graz, Austria
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, South Korea
2012 Rencontres Internationales Paris, France
FENACO Internationales Filmfestival, Peru, Argentina
Schmalfilmtage Dresden, Germany
2011 Kinofest Lünen, Lünen, Germany
Emergandsee Festival, Berlin, Germany
2010 Crossing Europe Linz, Austria
Crosstalk Video Art Festival, Budapest, Hungery
2009 Vienna Independent Short, Vienna, Austria
Crossing Europe, Linz, Austria
2008 One Take Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
Corona Cork Film Festival, Cork, Irland
Madrid Experimental Cinema Week, Madrid, Spain
Brisbane International Film Festival, Brisbane, Australia
Curtas Vila do Conde, Vila do Conde, Portugal
Indie Lisboa, Lissabon, Portugal
Crossing Europe, Linz, Austria
Selected Publications / Artist Books
2023 Valley Pride, artist book, 16 pages, English, published by ATLAS Projects
2022 Marine Target, artist book, 20 pages, English, published by ATLAS Projects
Loading Pit_resvised, artist book, 20 pages, English, published by ATLAS Projects
LOADING PIT_REVISED EDITION 17, 28 pages, English
2020 Imperial Irrigation, artist book, 32 pages, English, published by ATLAS Projectos
2019 Ralfs Farben- Libretto, artist book, b&w, 46 pages, German/English
2019 From Light To Cold, Published by VfmK, English, p.144
2013 It Seems To Be Loneliness But It Is Not, artist book, color and b&w, 198 pages, German
2012 Nella Fantasia, with Vanja Smiljanić, artist book, 36 pages, German/English
2010 Evader, artist book, b&w, 80 pages, picture book
2009 Light Curtain, artist book, b&w, 112 pages, English
Selected Bibliography
2024 ECOES #6/January 2024, p.126-143
2023 Kunstmagazin PARNASS UP&COMING, Sommer 2023, p.36 2022
2022 KUNSTFORUM International Bd.284 Oktober 2022, p.2-3, p.82-83
Österreich real Dokumentarfilm 1981-2021, Published by Film Archiv Austria, p.147-148, p.160, p.451, p.453, p.559, p.593
2021 Videonale.18, Published by Videonale e.V., German/English, 35 single issues in slipcase, p.380
2020 A long Time Short, Published by Verlag Kettler, German/English, p.112
2019 Sonic Acts – Hereafter, Publisher Sonic Acts, English, p.320
2019 From Light To Cold, Published by VfmK, English, p.144
2017 Living Earth – Field Notes from the Dark Ecology Project 2014 – 2016, Publisher Sonic Acts, English, p.256
2016 10 Jahre KIT, Kunst im Tunnel & Kunsthalle Düsseldorf,German/English, p.80
2015 The Geologic Imagination, Publisher Sonic Acts, English, p.336
2015 Landscape, Construction of a Reality, Verlag Walther König, Cologne, German/English, p.367
2015 Terra Incognita, Perception of Landscape Today, Kunst im Tunnel & Kunsthalle Düsseldorf,German/English, p.64
2015 Bombmagazin, Lukas Marxt by Julian Ross, April 16th, https://bombmagazine.org/articles/lukas-marxt/
2014 Art Das Kunstmagazin, January 2014, German, p.132