Lukas Stopczynski
with Andreas Bauer
Lukas Stopczynski is an architect and artist based in Berlin. He studied at Münster School of Design, the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. His Master’s thesis in Stuttgart initiated a long-term artistic investigation into paranoia as an architectural and spatial condition, which led to a postgraduate fellowship under the speculative title “Leerstuhl für angewandten Wahnsinn”.
Stopczynski’s practice explores non-linear narrative sculptures and spatial situations that oscillate between social staging, fiction and material intervention. He has exhibited at venues such as Kronika Center for Contemporary Art (Bytom, Poland), Etablissement d’en Face (Brussels, Belgium), Weserburg Museum of Modern Art (Bremen, Germany), Wiener Festwochen and the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna, as well as within various independent project contexts.
He has taught and lectured internationally and develops pedagogical approaches that interweave scenographic worldbuilding, speculative spatial dramaturgy and object-based exploration. He is currently Research Assistant in the Set Design Department at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, where his work focuses on social sculpture and spatial choreography.
Stopczynski has received recognitions including awards from the Hugo Wolf Akademie and CDC4. Together with Christoph Meier, Ute Müller and Robert Schwarz, he co-created the iterative bar projects Los Bar, Strookoffer and Lax Bar, temporary re-imaginings of Adolf Loos’s iconic American Bar staged in Los Angeles, Brussels and Vienna as spatial-social sculptures. Their common recent bar-project CHEZ NOUS continues this exploration by transforming the bar into a site-independent intervention.
EDUCATION
State Academy of Art and Design, Architecture
Stuttgart, Germany
Academy of Fine Art, Architecture
Vienna, Austria
JURY
Kirsty Bell
Bettina Götz
Hou Hanru
Markus Schinwald
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein
