Lukas Luzius LEICHTLE
Lukas Luzius Leichtle was born in Aachen, Germany, in 1995 and graduated from Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee in 2024. He currently lives and works in Berlin. Leichtle’s practice is rooted in his interaction with the medium of painting and his sensitive observation of intimately staged subjects.
By building up his works through consecutive layers of transparent pigments and using abrasive tools such as sandpaper or manicure milling cutters, Leichtle creates tactile and intricate surfaces which digest human experience and the presumed functionality placed upon the body.
The space surrounding his depicted subjects appears to be tight yet open for the viewers to observe. Based upon the artist’s interest in psychological phenomena, he probes for moments in which these inner workings manifest in physical form. Bodies transform into interpersonal landscapes; details of skin turn into translucent diaphanous surfaces, and functional organs into dysfunctional flesh. The body parts are depicted as compressed, twisted, tested, and pushed into abstractions, demanding to be viewed from programmed perspectives and to see the supposedly familiar in a new light.
