Current Residents Luka Berchtold
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Luka Berchtold, untitled creep, 2022, 150 × 250 × 65, 105 × 190 × 60 cm, shingles (c) Miro Kuzmanovic
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Luka Berchtold, Carrots, 2025, 22 × 6 × 5 cm, bronze (c) Eva Kelety
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Luka Berchtold, Thug Rose, 2025, 55 × 55 × 70 cm, wooden shingles (c) Eva Kelety
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Luka Berchtold, anniversary, 2024, 33 × 18 × 10 cm, aluminium (c) Angela Lamprecht
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Luka Berchtold, air mattress 1+2, 2024, 28 × 325 × 66 cm, concrete (c) Christa Engstler
The installation artist Luka Berchtold ventures with her work into the complex realms of ambivalent emotions and forms of communication. Her artistic vocabulary of sculptural media opens up insights into social and personal depths. By positioning herself—through a playful engagement with materials and aesthetic traditions—within the field of tension between tenderness and intimacy, authority and convention, she gives household objects, construction materials, and overlooked emotions new forms. This makes it possible to speak about those forms of softness, insecurities, and ingrained habits that often find no space in everyday life.
In my artistic practice, I work on the transformation of architectural elements into sculptural installations. My focus is on the facades of buildings, as well as shelters, walls, gates, tunnels, or bridges, and the exploration of their materiality and presence within space. I am particularly interested in investigating these architectural artifacts on Suomenlinna, working on a piece in which the facade becomes a body and is thus experienced as skin.
Luka Berchtolds residency is realised in collaboration with the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (BMWKMS).