About

 

Luis Kürschner (*1995, Germany) works across sculpture, film and performance to explore intimacy, tenderness and desire in a time facing ecological, societal and emotional collapse. He blends science fiction with fantasies of queer evolution and biodiversity, drawing on personal memory and speculative futures. 

His ceramic fireflies evoke lost childhood landscapes and fragile ecologies, flickering with queer potential. In his digital animation films and accompanying performances, he explores maternal identity, sacrifice, and the surreal weight of family history, working with his own mothers. He also forms a duo with his partner and collaborator Patryk Kujawa, always working site-specifically by infecting institutions with their virus of love, passion and compassion. 

Across media, Luis Kürschner builds poetic and sincere worlds where tenderness resists systems of control, and where clay, the body and its digital image form a complex web of relationships–between self and other, human and non-human, memory and matter.

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Group Exhibitions & Screenings

 

2025

SPOILER, Berlin, Germany

DANCÆ, Berlin, Germany

Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, Germany

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2024

Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

Kunstverein DIE H_LLE, Braunschweig, Germany

Kunststiftung Kunze, Gifhorn, Germany

tmp Projektraum, Minden, Germany

 

2023

Central Station, Braunschweig, Germany 

Goethe-Institut Ireland, Dublin, Ireland (with Patryk Kujawa)

Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (with Patryk Kujawa)

Kleines Theater, Berlin, Germany

Theater Schweinfurt, Schweinfurt, Germany

U10 Art Space, Belgrade, Serbia (with Patryk Kujawa)

 

2022

Altonaer Theater, Hamburg, Germany

Braunschweig International Film Festival, Braunschweig Germany

byvier, Cologne, Germany

European Media Art Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück, Germany

Theater Gütersloh, Gütersloh, Germany

 

2021

after the butcher, Berlin, Germany 

Braunschweig International Film Festival, Braunschweig Germany

Central Station, Braunschweig, Germany

European Media Art Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück, Germany

Kleines Theater, Berlin, Germany

Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea

Neuköllner Oper, Berlin, Germany

 

2020

Braunschweig International Film Festival, Braunschweig, Germany

Galerie vom Zufall und vom Glück, Hannover, Germany

NOVA art space, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Germany