Biographical notes
- Artist
- Hakomi Institute Germany, curricular training in the HAKOMI method, body therapist
- Supervisor and coach
- Study of Human Ecology
- Erasmus program - University of Bangor, North Wales, Marine Ecology
- Group and play educator
Recent artistic works …
· Performances include work with Claudia Bosse & PUBLIC PERFORMANCE SCHOOL - for the cloakroom, the event space, and the atrium of belvedere 21; belvedere 21; Vienna; 27.04.2025; with Claudia Bosses Public Performance School 2024 and 2025, with Thomas Köcks & Michael v. zur Mühlens digital opera "opera - a future game / vienna edition" Impulstanz Festival Wien 2023, as well as with Alexander Gottfarbs Encounters #3 Impulstanz Festival Wien 2022; Showing von SWEAT CHILLS bei S_P_I_T Queer Performance Festival 2022 with Veza Fernández & Imani Rameses, Tanzquartier Wien; Desire with no name, Solo Performance Châtèau Rouge, Wien, 2019
· Exhibitions include group exhibition at The Wrong Biennale 2025/2026, 01 Nov 2025 - 31 Mar 2026; PH21 Gallery; -scapes, group exhibition; Barcelona, Spain, 13 Dec 2025 - 06 Jan 2026; prideart Berlin and SEAS Worthing Queer Portraiture, Aug resp. Feb 2025; Swindon Arts Fringe; group show Hope is a Thing we Build; Swindon; UK, 16.-29.06.2025; group exhibiton Feminine/Masculine, ph21 Gallery Budapest, 03-27.05.2025; MORA Museum of International Art; group show Blind Spot; Jersey City, USA, 05.-30.04.2025; screening of video Highs and Lows as part of exhibition Kreativität der Langsamkeit, GISELA, D- Berlin; 02.2024; ArtMuc Kunstmesse/Artfair; Munich; 27. - 29.10.2023; Mark Salzburg; Group show Safe Space; A-Salzburg; 13.- 30.07.2023;
Statement
Artistic Statement
Lou Liska is a gender-queer performer, artist, and human ecologist based in Guntramsdorf, near Vienna, Austria.
Coming to art without formal training, Lou’s practice is shaped by a working-class background and a sustained engagement with structures of power. Social, economic, and political hierarchies inform an ongoing investigation into how identity, agency, and self-empowerment are negotiated within, and against, these systems. A non-binary perspective functions as both position and method, resisting fixed categories in favor of fluid, relational modes of making.
Working across performance, photography, painting, and video, Lou creates intimate, hybrid works that foreground the body as a site of knowledge. Recent projects examine contemporary power dynamics and gender roles through the lens of a self increasingly entangled with digital technologies and AI. By placing the analogue logic of the body in tension with the synthetic logic of technology, Lou’s work asks how embodiment, autonomy, and desire are being reshaped in the present.
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