Lukas Müller’s paintings in soft pastel and gouache on raw jute explore the fragility of memory. Layers of pigment bleed into the fabric, mirroring how recollections fade and shift over time. Some images remain crisp, while others dissolve into hazy, dreamlike forms. His rapid, instinctive gestures capture fleeting thoughts—moments slipping away, yet leaving a trace. The contrast between sharpness and blur creates a quiet tension, reflecting the unstable nature of remembering and forgetting.
Lukas Müller (b. 1986) is a Berlin-based artist who studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Albert Oehlen and at Städelschule Frankfurt under Michael Krebber. Recent exhibitions include danke Imagination Apartment works at Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf; In the Sight of a Man at M+M Gallery, Hong Kong; Against Nature at Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt am Main (curated by Alex Thake); and S**, You Got Insurance* at LFDY x Lucas Hirsch, London. His work investigates memory, perception, and impermanence through soft pastel and gouache on raw jute.
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*1986, Kassel
lebt und arbeitet in Berlin
Ausbildung 2008 – 2013
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf bei Albert Oehlen und Andreas Schulze
Städelschule, Gastsemester in Frankfurt am Main bei Michael Krebber
Meisterschüler Andreas Schulze
2022
Blockseminar „Ausstellung im Boardbistro“, Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, mit Friedemann Heckel und Greta Kühnast
SOLO
2023
S***, you got insurance, LFDY, London
Der Bücherwurm, Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf
Fuoco Alle Galore, Damien and the Love Guru, Brüssel
2022
Publikation „Good Morning Have a Nice Day“, Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf Figuring things out, Sweetwater, Berlin, mit Kollektiv HC
2021
Non Dentro Ma Intorno A Noi, CFA, Mailand, mit Kollektiv HC
2019
Eclipse of the Thumb, Goeben, Berlin
Lukas Müller + Sagg Napoli, Lady Helen, London Dear Hanna, Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf
2018
Die lange Weile, Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf Transparencies, Sauvage, mit Kollektiv HC, Bonn
2017
Biblioteca Dracula, Panorama Boa Vista, Porto
Alle Pizze fast rund, Bob’s Pogo Bar, KW, Kunstwerke Berlin
2016
Charge, Coalmine, Winterthur Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf
Intervention by HC, Kunstsaele, Berlin mit Kollektiv HC Collages, Rotary Club, Strasbourg
Genre.Li, Schaufenster, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
2015
Peter-Mertes-Stipendium, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn Paul Clemen Museum, German-French Art Prize, Bonn
GROUP
2022
I wish you a very outside, Dzialdov, Berlin
2021
Act 1, a piece of furniture, Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin City‘s, Sweetwater, Berlin, mit Kollektiv HC
The Nostalgic Series, Haus am Wehrsteg, Heidelberg Müller Möller Walter, Loggia, Wien
2018
A routine trip turns into a enchanting escapade, Marc Le Blanc, Chicago A window, a floor, credit cards, a bench, Emalin, London
Letters of last resort, Damien & The Love Guru, Brüssel
Friend of a Friend, Dawid Radziszewski, Warschau
2017
Skip Tracer, Marc LeBlanc, Chicago
Okey Dokey, mit Lomex und Stereo, Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf
2016
To lie in the cheese, to smile in the butter, Kunstsaele, Berlin microcelebrities2, justmarried.one, Brüssel
Grand Café, Apes & Castles, Brüssel
2014
Intermarket, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel
2013
Impersonations, Bruch und Dallas, Cologne
2012
K21, contribution to Wolfgang Tillmanns show at Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf
Stipendien und Preise
HAP, Stipendium, Frankfurt
Letzte Runde ARS VIVA
Deutsch-Französischer Kunstpreis, Rotary Strasbourg and Bonn Peter-Mertes-Stipendium, Bonner Kunstverein