• Long story short.
  • Incarnate
  • Let It Go
  • Abundant Days To Come
  • Into the Unknown
  • Skin Come Leather, Vol. III (Group exhi + performance, Berlin)
  • Skin Come Leather, Vol. II (Solo exhi + performance, NYC)
  • Skin Come Leather, Vol. I ( Performance in Brussels)
  • Guiding dog (Book)
  • Sospiri
  • Crack Pipes, Glands, Incarnate, Life, Sick Af
  • A Rehearsal
  • Dry Me A River
  • Retrospective
  • Phantom Limb
  • Enzyme
  • lkea Made Fashion
  • Big Bag
  • L’Eau des Algues
  • Bob the Builder
  • Frenzied Chirping
  • There’s no place like homes
  • Solo Dirt
  • My Immortal
  • Soy Soya
  • Narcissus Ecocore
  • Unlimited Sportsforest Chicas
  • SALIVA
  • Anna Zemankova: Pollen (Curation)
  • Anna Zemankova (Curation)
  • D’epog: Cheeeeeese (Curation)
  • Lukas Karbus (Curation)
  • Tomas Lahoda (Curation)
  • Hairy Earthtongue, weeping toothcrust, fairy rings. (Curation)
  • Vladimir Kokolia: In case the last thing you ever see is a treetop (Curation)
  • A Guiding Dog for a Blind Dog (Curation)
  • Grzegorz Demczuk: Slapstick (Curation)
  • India Ray: I stalk youu (Curation)
  • Dirt Under Your Nails (Curation)
  • Long story short.
  • Incarnate
  • Let It Go
  • Abundant Days To Come
  • Into the Unknown
  • Skin Come Leather, Vol. III (Group exhi + performance, Berlin)
  • Skin Come Leather, Vol. II (Solo exhi + performance, NYC)
  • Skin Come Leather, Vol. I ( Performance in Brussels)
  • Guiding dog (Book)
  • Sospiri
  • Crack Pipes, Glands, Incarnate, Life, Sick Af
  • A Rehearsal
  • Dry Me A River
  • Retrospective
  • Phantom Limb
  • Enzyme
  • lkea Made Fashion
  • Big Bag
  • L’Eau des Algues
  • Bob the Builder
  • Frenzied Chirping
  • There’s no place like homes
  • Solo Dirt
  • My Immortal
  • Soy Soya
  • Narcissus Ecocore
  • Unlimited Sportsforest Chicas
  • SALIVA
  • Anna Zemankova: Pollen (Curation)
  • Anna Zemankova (Curation)
  • D’epog: Cheeeeeese (Curation)
  • Lukas Karbus (Curation)
  • Tomas Lahoda (Curation)
  • Hairy Earthtongue, weeping toothcrust, fairy rings. (Curation)
  • Vladimir Kokolia: In case the last thing you ever see is a treetop (Curation)
  • A Guiding Dog for a Blind Dog (Curation)
  • Grzegorz Demczuk: Slapstick (Curation)
  • India Ray: I stalk youu (Curation)
  • Dirt Under Your Nails (Curation)
lukas hofmann / saliva
lukas hofmann / saliva

Crack Pipes, Glands, Incarnate, Life, Prodigal Son, Sick Af at National Gallery, Prague

As part of Jindrich Chalupecky Award 2018 (Laureate)

November 13, 2018 - January 6, 2019

 

Crack Pipes
glass
2018

Glands
polyester resin
2018

Incarnate
virtual reality video, 10:00
2018
Performers: Zuzana Jírová, František Mucha, Jan Bražina, Scott Hopper, Renata Dosdá

Life
polyethylene net, steel tube, spray colors
2018

Matyáš Bernard Braun
The Prodigal Son
wood (facsimile)
ca 1720

Lukas Hofmann, Scott Hopper
sick af
video, 26:14
2018

lukas hofmann / saliva
lukas hofmann / saliva

Hofmann's project for the national Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2018, that he became the Laureate of, included two equally important parts: the permanent installation at the Korzo and a spectacular performance held at the Korzo and below at Studio Hrdinů.

lukas hofmann / saliva

The installation does not have a hierarchic center, rather grasping the surrounding world with curiosity. The sculptural climbing holds make an impression of a space adapted for movement while resonating with corporeality due to their tactile and visual qualities.

We are disconcerted by the fragility of the experimentally processed glass; the changeable membrane of the suspended construction net intimately delineates the space, while also enabling the constant penetration of the surrounding reality. The three-dimensional video in virtual reality glasses mentally absorbs us, teleporting us to a certain interspace and timelessness with the help of the performers in anachronic costumes.

The core of Lukáš Hofmann’s work draws on very personal moments, whether they be relationships, conversations with friends, experiences with mind altering substances or current interests (such as discovering arts and crafts and acquiring handicraft skills). However, this autobiographical quality (most visibly revealed in the intimate video exhibited outside the Korzo on the 4th floor of the permanent exhibition of the National Gallery) does not aim to tell particular stories, rather becoming a source of ambivalent sensuality and anxious emotionality. It affects the present participants while following rules that are as unstable and uncertain as the present day.

lukas hofmann / saliva
lukas hofmann / saliva
lukas hofmann / saliva

The VR headset mediates a development of the refined scenographic and performative elements with which Hofmann so often works. Unlike common 3D modelling, he opted for a realistic sensuality, making the experience enthralling, not unlike the use of a high-quality “trip”.

The visitor stands at the centre, scenes taking place around them as if on a rotating Baroque stage, scenes which – rather than mediating a specific narrative – induce the feeling of living tableaus, heightened through the use of historical references such as Marold’s Panorama or the motif of the pseudo-kunstkammer.

VR technology itself reduces the viewer to pure visuality, representing their abandoning of the body, which however returns in a sensual adaptation. Performers in medieval costumes replay motives from the artist’s previous events – raising up a lifeless body, choking one another in a circle, biting hands, kissing (the juiciness of kissing is referred to in the author’s pseudonym, “Saliva”).

Text by Tereza Jindrova and Martina Poliackova

Pictures by Peter Fabo

The work was commissioned by Jindřich Chalupecký Society.

Artportal

lukas hofmann / saliva
lukas hofmann / saliva
lukas hofmann / saliva

Crack Pipes, Glands, Incarnate, Life, Prodigal Son, Sick Af at National Gallery, Prague

As part of Jindrich Chalupecky Award 2018 (Laureate)

November 13, 2018 - January 6, 2019

Crack Pipes
glass
2018

Glands
polyester resin
2018

Incarnate
virtual reality video, 10:00
2018
Performers: Zuzana Jírová, František Mucha, Jan Bražina, Scott Hopper, Renata Dosdá

Life
polyethylene net, steel tube, spray colors
2018

Matyáš Bernard Braun
The Prodigal Son
wood (facsimile)
ca 1720

Lukas Hofmann, Scott Hopper
sick af
video, 26:14
2018

lukas hofmann / saliva
lukas hofmann / saliva

Hofmann's project for the national Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2018, that he became the Laureate of, included two equally important parts: the permanent installation at the Korzo and a spectacular performance held at the Korzo and below at Studio Hrdinů.

lukas hofmann / saliva

The installation does not have a hierarchic center, rather grasping the surrounding world with curiosity. The sculptural climbing holds make an impression of a space adapted for movement while resonating with corporeality due to their tactile and visual qualities.

We are disconcerted by the fragility of the experimentally processed glass; the changeable membrane of the suspended construction net intimately delineates the space, while also enabling the constant penetration of the surrounding reality. The three-dimensional video in virtual reality glasses mentally absorbs us, teleporting us to a certain interspace and timelessness with the help of the performers in anachronic costumes.

The core of Lukáš Hofmann’s work draws on very personal moments, whether they be relationships, conversations with friends, experiences with mind altering substances or current interests (such as discovering arts and crafts and acquiring handicraft skills). However, this autobiographical quality (most visibly revealed in the intimate video exhibited outside the Korzo on the 4th floor of the permanent exhibition of the National Gallery) does not aim to tell particular stories, rather becoming a source of ambivalent sensuality and anxious emotionality. It affects the present participants while following rules that are as unstable and uncertain as the present day.

lukas hofmann / saliva
lukas hofmann / saliva
lukas hofmann / saliva

The VR headset mediates a development of the refined scenographic and performative elements with which Hofmann so often works. Unlike common 3D modelling, he opted for a realistic sensuality, making the experience enthralling, not unlike the use of a high-quality “trip”.

The visitor stands at the centre, scenes taking place around them as if on a rotating Baroque stage, scenes which – rather than mediating a specific narrative – induce the feeling of living tableaus, heightened through the use of historical references such as Marold’s Panorama or the motif of the pseudo-kunstkammer.

Text by Tereza Jindrova and Martina Poliackova

Pictures by Peter Fabo

Artportal

lukas hofmann / saliva