Lukas Birk is an Austrian born multi-media artist, explorer and organizer. He was educated in Austria and the U.K. A former journalist for Austrian and German media, he has worked as news correspondent and photographer in his late teens and early twenties. After extensive travels in Indian and South-East Asia age 20 he decided to study art at LCMM in London where he complete a BA in digital arts and photography. Lukas has essentially been a travel for the last 10 years with focus on East Asia and the Middle East. Experiences such as traveling in Afghanistan, the Gobi desert or India are all interwoven in his multi-layered work. He set up a base in Beijing in 2007 where he co-founded the Austro Sino Arts Program an artist run, not-for-profit, proactive organization promoting Austrian art in China. Lukas has exhibited his work on 3 continents including large scale installations in Israel and China. He gives lectures and teaches multi-media art. His films have been screened around the globe in prominent festivals such as the New York independent film festival. Lukas' first major publication Kafkanistan (2008) is about tourism to conflict zones with focus on Afghanistan. In 2010 Lukas co-founded the Austro Indonesian Arts Program a non profit private art foundation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia with an annual AIR program. He currently lives in between China and Indonesia and keeps traveling for at least 4 months a year. Several publications are planned for the next years for example a coffee table book for his Polaroids from the Middle Kingdom series and the Afghan Box Camera Project.

co-founder AustroSinoArtsProgram
co-founder AustroIndonesianArtsProgram
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