lucas odahara

Lucas Odahara is an artist based in Berlin, working with a variety of media including ceramic glaze painting, moving image, and writing. His work addresses the impulse of self-recognition within structures that are ultimately restrictive, while proposing a notion of a manifold self composed from multiple histories and geographies. Nationality, language, history, race and gender are some of the places he encounters this friction between identification and disidentification.

In 2022, he was awarded with the Berlin Art Prize and in 2024 he was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academy in the Netherlands. His work has been seen at many exhibitions, including: Neue Berliner Kunsverein (n.b.k.), Berlin (2024); David Peter Francis gallery, New York (2024); Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2023); TaxisPalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Austria (2023); Kleinplastik Triennial Fellbach (2022); OPENART Biennial, Sweden (2022); Cultural Center of Belgrade (2022); Berlinische Galerie (2021); Bärenzwinger, Berlin (2021); Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim (2020); Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan (2019); Schwules Museum, Berlin (2017); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2016); Weserburg Bremen (2015) and Künstlerhaus Bremen (2015).

EDUCATION 

2023 - 2024 Resident at Jan van Eyck Academy - Maastricht, Netherlands

2014 Running Art Space - Immigration Office. Bremen, Germany (www.immigrationoffice.de) 

2013 - 2015 Post-master (Meisterschüler) in Fine Arts with Prof. Rosa Barba - University of the Arts of Bremen, Germany 

2011 - 2013 M.A. in Digital Media - University of the Arts of Bremen, Germany

2007 - 2011 B.A. in Product Design - State University of São Paulo, Brazil


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 The Master’s Shoes. Berlin Art Prize - Die Möglichkeit einer Insel - Berlin, Germany

2020 Marginal Blues. Space 3353 - Geneva, Switzerland

2020 Read Before the Fire. Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim - Neuenhaus, Germany 

2018 Casa Odahara e Rossi. Galerie für Gegenwartskunst - Bremen, Germany 

2017 Under the Influence. Above, the Sun. NUDA magazine - Stockholm, Sweden

2015 Satelights Highlands. Galerie Dechanatstraße - Bremen, Germany


GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2024 David Peter Francis Gallery, NADA Miami, USA (Forthcoming)

2024 A Home for Something Unknown, Neue Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) - Berlin, Germany 

2024 Butterflies, David Peter Francis gallery - New York, USA  

2024 Open Studios, Jan van Eyck Academy - Maastricht, Netherlands 

2023 Stranger Belongs to Us, TaxisPalais Kunsthalle Tirol - Innsbruck, Austria

2023 House of Kal, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (ngbk) - Berlin, Germany 

2023 The Other Side of Water, Künstlerhaus Bethanien - Berlin, Germany

2023 Archaic Futures. ADAD Projectspace - Hannover, Germany 

2022 The Vibration of Things. Small Sculpture Triennial - Fellbach, Germany

2022 OPENART Biennial - Örebro, Sweden

2022 The Other Side of Water. Cultural Center of Belgrade - Belgrade, Serbia

2022 Atlas of Affinities - the Far Near. HUA international - Berlin, Germany

2021 Into the Drift and Sway. Bärenzwinger - Berlin, Germany

2021 A language. where yesterday and tomorrow. are the same word. Kal. District - Berlin, Germany

2021Park Platz. Berlinische Galerie, curated by Nuno de Brito Rocha - Berlin, Germany

2019 Is It Possible to Live Outside of Language?. Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture - Karachi, Pakistan.

2018 Palm, Palm, Palmar. POOL JH - Johannesburg, South Africa

2018 41. Bremer Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst. Städtische Galerie - Bremen, Germany 

2017 Odarodle: an imaginary their_story of naturepeoples, 1535-2017. Schwules Museum - Berlin, Germany

2017 VG Award 2017. Kestner Gesellschaft - Hannover, Germany 

2016 39. Bremer Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst. Städtische Galerie - Bremen, Germany

2016 Spring Exhibition. Kunsthal Charlottenborg - Copenhagen, Denmark

2015 Getting Lost. Villa Iris - Botin Foundation - Santander, Spain

2015 Auf anderen Gründen. Weserburg - Bremen, Germany  

2015 Dazwischentreten. Künstlerhaus Bremen, curated by Fanny Gonella - Bremen, Germany


PUBLIC ART 

2024 Early Landscapes - Façade of the Rosendal Multihus - commissioned by Uppsala Kommun - Uppsala, Sweden

2019 Hand Dialogue - Pedestrian tunnel - commissioned by Bremen’s Cultural Senate - Bremen, Germany


LECTURES / TALKS / WORKSHOPS (selection)

2024 Under the Impression of Movement, talk at Jan van Eyck Academy - Maastricht, Netherlands

2023 Talk at Wind Tunnel Conference at the Zürich University of the Arts - Zürich, Switzerland.

2022 Visting artist at class Judith Belzer – Harvard. Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies -  Cambridge, USA.

2022 Screening and talk –  MIT Art, Culture and Technology Program - Cambridge, USA.

2022 Visting artist at Humbold University - Berlin Perspectives with Ying Sze Pek - Berlin, Germany

2021 Seminar - Shape Shifting (when to move in disorientation) – SS 2021 – University of the Arts, Bremen, Germany.

2020 Seminar - Shape Shifting (how to become Phantasmic) – WS 2020/21 – University of the Arts, Bremen, Germany.

2020 Something Newly Missing. Talk at Acud Macht Neu - Berlin, Germany 

2019 Is It Possible to Live Outside of Language?. Talk at the IVS Gallery - Karachi, Pakistan 

2017 the Republic of Silence. Talk & Listening Assembly at the Schwulesmuseum* - Berlin, Germany

2017 Visting artist at the Class of Natascha Sadr Haghighian - HfK Bremen, Germany

2016 Real State. Talk and Book Release at the Städtische Galerie Bremen - Bremen, Germany

2016 Cloud Drive. Talk at the University of the Arts of Bremen - Bremen, Germany

2016 Dictation and the Museum of Language. Talk at Literaturhaus Kreuzberg - Berlin, Germany

2015 Topography of Two. Reading at GAK - Bremen, Germany

2015 Imagery of places no one has ever been (but we are all dying to conquer). Talk at University of the Arts of Bremen

2014 The Digital Sublime. Lecture at the State University of São Paulo - Bauru, Brazil. 


GRANTS / PRIZES

2023 Work Grant Visual Arts - Berlin Senate, Germany

2022 Winner Berlin Art Prize

2021 Work Grant - Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany

2020 NEUSTART KULTUR, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany

2019 BBK Studio Grant, Berlin

2019 1st prize - Gestaltung von Stadträumen, Senator für Kultur Bremen

2017 Nomination for Vordemberge-Gilderwart Award 2017

2015 Publication grant (HfK Bremen) - Book We Hope This Finds You Well (released 2016)

2015 Fundacion Botin, Spain. Workshop with Julie Mehretu

2015 DAAD STIBET Stipendium

2015 DAAD - Erasmus + (Praktikum im Ausland)

2012 DAAD - Matching Funds

 

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