| 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.
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