Zeitenwende, Art and War
A lecture and screening by Lukas Pusch as part of the lecture series of the intaglio studio in the summer semester 2025 .
We are currently experiencing the most fundamental geopolitical and social shifts since World War 2. What do these shifts mean for art? These and other questions will be discussed on the basis of Lukas Pusch's film Neues Tahiti (New Tahiti), the first public screening in its final version, which documents ten years of the Siberian underground.
Lukas Pusch, born in Vienna in 1970, studied painting at the Vienna University of Applied Arts, the Surikov Institute in Moscow and the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.
Although his works are frequently seen as provocative, his primary concern is image-finding and artistic autonomy. His working method may be described as a combination of research and psychoanalytical free association. His most spectacular works, recognised worldwide, include the founding of Siberia’s first centre for contemporary art and of Slum TV a local broadcasting station in Mathare, Nairobi – one of the largest slums in the whole of Africa. The Christmas edition of the daily newspaper Die Presse, illustrated with Pusch woodcuts, received the European Press Award twice in succession. Lukas Pusch is currently exploring the romantic approach to modernism and landscape painting as a political statement.
The film is in German and Russian, and will be shown with English subtitles. Introductory words on the contextualisation of the film in Pusch's artistic practice will be in German.