Artist Workshop (DE/EN)
Lazar Lyutakov
Constructing Light

This workshop explores the possibilities of constructing lamps from plastic containers – a technique that Lazar Lyutakov has been using for many years in his Lamp Series which is presented in the exhibition Lebt und arbeitet in Wien.

Participants are asked to bring plastic containers to the Atelier to use as a starting point. By engaging with different types of plastic, their origins, design and association with specific markets, as well as with the personal stories hidden within some objects, new perspectives will emerge: How can an object with a different function be developed from these?

The logic of industrially manufactured everyday objects and the history of design – from modernism to the present – become the raw material for a creative process. We will experiment with material, light, colour and composition to develop unique sculptural pieces that hide behind the guise of functionality and can transform the space.

With “new vulcanicity” force, industry produced a “new geology”. Thus matter, without random eruption or sedimentation, acquires a transfigured reality of its own. For a dumb prehistory, sparring of traces and reasons, this “industrial age” gives man an image of victorious peregrination. – Lucca Scacci Gracco, Pensieri di Plastica, Arnoldo Mondatori Editore, 1986

Please bring your own plastic containers – old or new and preferably as many as possible!
No prior experience necessary.
Materials and tools will be provided on site. 

Please register at: vermittlung@kunsthallewien.at

Workshop fee: € 25 
Reduced rate: € 15

The reduction applies to students, civil servants and people in military service, apprentices and Kunsthalle Wien annual ticket holders. Places are also reserved for holders of the ‘Hunger auf Kunst und Kultur’ culture pass.

Lazar Lyutakov

Lazar Lyutakov (born 1977 in Shabla, Bulgaria) studied at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia (1998–2000) and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2005. His works were presented at the 58th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, where he represented Bulgaria alongside Rada Boukova, as well as at the 6th Moscow Biennale and the 1st Vienna Biennale at the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna. He has held solo and duo exhibitions at venues including Lavender Opener Chair, Tokyo; À Space, Hanoi; Secession, Vienna; Charim Galerie, Vienna; and SIMIAN, Copenhagen. His works have also been included in international group exhibitions, including at the Cairn – Centre d’Art, Digne-les-Bains; Fondazione Zimei, Pescara; Punta Gallery, Sofia; GLASSBOX, Paris; Centre of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi; Laurenz, Vienna; Brno House of Arts; and Callirrhoë, Athens.