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FOCUS ON Lukas Marxt – Programm 2
Lukas Marxt understands landscapes as sculptural objects or projection surfaces, to which he adds an extra dimension through his films. In his works, he primarily focuses on places shaped and functionalized by humans—salt flats, deserts, industrial sites—and exposes them as silent archives of ecological and political interventions. With calm, often almost hypnotic images, Marxt’s films create a tension between breathtaking beauty and latent threat.
The impressive films and installations of the Graz-born artist, now based in Cologne, are regularly featured and awarded at international exhibitions and film festivals (including Hamburger Bahnhof – National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Berlin | ZKM, Karlsruhe | Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art | Locarno Film Festival | International Film Festival Rotterdam | Berlin International Film Festival).
PROGRAM 2 | 20:15
Sehr gepflegt und gut gelegen (with Jakub Vrba, AT/DE 2021, 9 min)
A villa with a garden, accompanied by birdsong. In a nine-minute single take, the focus is on cinematic staging, satirically illustrating the dilemma of bourgeois existence.
Reign of Silence (AT/DE 2013, 7 min)
Drawing on water—a temporary intervention in a seemingly untouched landscape and simultaneously a reflection on the conditions of cinematic representation. Land Art as film.
Imperial-Valley Trilogy: A three-part exploration of socio-cultural and ecological traces in the landscape of Imperial Valley, California.
•Imperial Valley (cultivated run-off) (AT/DE 2018, 14 min)
•Imperial Irrigation (AT/DE 2020, 20 min)
•Valley Pride (AT/DE 2023, 15 min)
Circular Inscription (AT/DE 2016, 7 min)
An apparently driverless car spirals its tire tracks across the bed of El Mirage Dry Lake. Associations with Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty.
Marine Target (AT/DE 2022, 9 min)
A cinematic survey of an abandoned platform in the Salton Sea. In 1944/45, the U.S. Navy had investigated here the optimal height for an atomic bomb explosion.
Audience discussion with the director after the programs.
Curation & Moderation: Lotte Schreiber
Film still from: Circular Inscription (AT/DE 2016, 7 min)