Lukas Julius Keijser
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Lukas Julius Keijser was born in 1973 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He studied Dutch language and literature at the University of Amsterdam from 1992 to 1997. After graduating, he worked for several years as a journalist for a Dutch newspaper.

From 2004 to 2006 he studied fine art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. He moved to Berlin in 2006 and is currently completing an MA at the Universität der Künste.

Keijser’s main themes are communication, the family, the internet, and mainstream, underground and trash cultures, exploring the boundaries between art and non-art. He frequently employs his immediate environment and autobiographical elements. He works in a broad range of media including video, performance and photography, for which he produces his own costumes, music and texts. Since 2008 he has worked extensively with the silk-screening process, printing on paper, fabric, wood, glass and other flat surfaces.

Lukas Julius Keijser has exhibited in galleries in the Netherlands and Berlin and in bars and clubs such as Supperclub (Amsterdam) and at parties such as UNK (Amsterdam), Poopsy Club and the Sparkle Army (both in Berlin). His videos have been screened at festivals in Moscow and Amsterdam (Outvideo and The One Minutes), where he was nominated for a One Minute Award. His works have been published in internationally distributed magazines like Mister Motley. His music can be heard on dance floors from France to Finland.