Martin Lukáč


Martin Lukáč is a Slovak artist living and working in Prague. In 2013 he graduated from the Technical University in Košice with a Bachelor’s degree in fine arts, and in 2016 he received a Master’s degree in painting from the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague. He was an exchange student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 2014 and at the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts in 2015. His works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Europe and North America and are part of numerous private and public collections. In 2018, he participated in an artist residency program in Brussels, and in 2019, in Los Angeles.

Lukáč’s work is an expression of a relaxed, intuitive creative process. His paintings are reminiscent of the work of the masters of Abstract Expressionism, but also have the freedom of graffiti artists and elements of pop culture. For him, painting is a way of being. His paintings come to life like strange characters from the world of comics. Amorphous forms, painted in vibrant, vivid colours, emerge from a background full of free-flowing lines, like automatic punctuation marks.
Lukáč often thinks in series, repeatedly using the same motif and systematically varying it on his canvases until he exhausts it. This repetition and reduction of forms not only formally define Lukáč’s work but also underpin his practice. The selected motifs are not merely subjects of his paintings; through their repetition, they transcend their initial depiction and ultimately serve as the medium of the painting itself.


Exhibitions

SELECTION 2

08 Dec 2023 - 31 Jan 2024

Comma first selection

11 Sep 2023 - 30 Sep 2023