LUKAS GLINKOWSKI | Popcorn

The everyday confrontation with public space is a universal, unavoidable human habitus. For Lukas Glinkowski, this forms the starting point of his painterly way of thinking: Fragments documented in snapshots or original sounds, as well as pop-cultural observations and studies, a framework that finds space in his works in form of ordered chaos. POPCORN takes up one of the artist's basic ideas: You only see the beautiful things while walking slowly.

The works collected in POPCORN are based on snapshots from the socio-urban space - advertisements, found objects, compositions that can only be discovered by pausing and taking a really good look. While reading about the band Black Sabbath, for example, the artist learned that everyone has gentleness in them. The group around Ozzy Osbourne actually started out as a blues band before they turned to the “dark side” of rock, inspired by the huge popularity of slasher and horror films in the cinema opposite their rehearsal space.

“Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore": in the legendary fairy tale The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a shining example of escapism, the artist finds one of his sources of motifs and inspiration for his latest works. Just like Dorothy and Toto encounter mysterious personalities and dreamlike landscapes, the artist, with a keen eye for contexts and situations in media and urban space, reveals an almost equally strange fantasy world parallel to everyday life.

Lukas Glinkowski (*1984 in Chelmo, Poland) moved to Berlin at the age of 3. He studied visual arts at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Reinhold Braun from 2007 to 2014 and graduated as master student of Katharina Grosse. In 2019, Glinkowski received the Villa Aurora Scholarship in Los Angeles and was awarded the Berlin Hyp Förderpreis. In 2019/2020 he took part in the comprehensive traveling exhibition JETZT! Junge Malerei in Deutschland and showed large large-format mirror works at the Kunstmuseum Bonn and the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg. Since then he has been represented in numerous exhibitions, including in Berlin, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Lisbon, Naples, Palma and Vienna.