lukas hoffmann

LUKAS HOFFMANN

EVERGREEN

4 JULY - 25 SEPTEMBER 2022

10.00 AM - 07.30 PM

SUNDAY: 1PM - 7.30

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The Lukas Hoffmann exhibition brings together two sets of images shot with a photographic chamber, using two distinct approaches. In several large-format polyptychs, the division of each motif on different surfaces results from a precise, calculated process. While the referent remains recognizable, the rigorous composition leads the subject to be erased behind its representation. In a series of images of people in the street, Hoffmann took a completely different direction. He still used a photographic chamber, but shot the motif freehand, spontaneously, and very close up, without looking through a viewfinder. In this way, he froze fleeting, contrasting poses and precisely captured skin, hair and clothing textures. Hoffmann’s works are complex representations of temporality—a characteristic of photography.

WITH THE HELP OF THE CENTRE NATIONAL DES ARTS PLASTIQUES, ANNEX14, ZURICH, AND GALERIE C, PARIS. 

WITH SUPPORT FROM THE SWISS ARTS COUNCIL PRO HELVETIA AND THE CANTON OF ZUG, SWITZERLAND.

PARTAGER

LUKAS HOFFMANN

Born 1981 in Zug, Switzerland.
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Swiss-Australian artist Lukas Hoffmann earned a degree from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2007, taught by Patrick Faigenbaum and Marc Pataut. From 2009 to 2011, he participated in the research program La Seine (ENSBA, Paris). Workshop grants have taken him to Antwerp (2008–2009), Berlin (2011), and New York (2016). His photography, self-printed with an enlarger, is regularly shown in solo and group exhibitions. His most recent monograph, Untitled Overgrowth, was published by Spector Books in 2019.