Exhibition in the gallery of the Caspar David Friedrich Center

From October 11 to December 20, 2025, this year's Caspar David Friedrich Prize winner Lukas Maksay will be exhibiting in the gallery of the CDF Center. The exhibition "What Do We Do When We Get Lost In The Forest?" provides insights into the young artist's artistic practice.

In his works, Lukas Maksay deals intensively with human perception, man-made nature and its materiality. His artistic practice is characterized by conceptual clarity and a reduced, yet ambiguous aesthetic - a play with contrasts that poetically reflects the relationship between cultural continuity and transformation.

The contrast between constructed objects and dissolving objects is deliberately equated. Materials are taken over by natural organisms or completely decomposed.

This visual tension reflects the duality of tradition and modernity, of delicacy and coarseness, of memory and the present, of creative power and decay.
One of the most important aspects of Lukas Maksay's works is their incompleteness. Each work has the permission to lead its own life after the so-called "completion" and to change within it, whereby the actual completion takes place and thus the non-completion.

He is looking for natural processes in man-made environments and man-made things in natural environments.

The exhibition can be seen from Tuesday to Saturday from 11 am to 5 pm in the gallery of the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Zentrum.