Lucas Odahara
(b. 1989, São Paulo, Brazil; lives and works in Berlin, Germany)
Gallery Exhibitions
— (forthcoming) September 2025
— Butterflies, (group exhibition), 2024
Selected Press
— Ferreira de Sousa, Isabel, “You Never See the Whole Picture”, Metropolis M, Oct/Nov 2024, (English translation)
Supplementary
— Jan Van Eyck Academie, “Lucas Odahara & Kexin Hao - Participant Presentation”, YouTube, January 2025
Installation view, OPENART Biennial, Örebro, Sweden, 2022
Installation view, A Home for Something Unknown, Neue Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin, Germany, 2024
Installation view, A Home for Something Unknown, Neue Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin, Germany, 2024
I was under the impression that leaving was a backwards motion, 2024, paper, steel, wood, 47 1/4 x 35 1/2 inches (120 x 90 cm)
Installation view, Estranged from Sight, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Netherlands, 2024
Estranged from Sight (reading space), 2024, wood, stool, microphone, speakers, text
Installation view, Estranged from Sight, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Netherlands, 2024
Installation view, Estranged from Sight, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Netherlands, 2024
Installation view, The Master's Shoes at Die Möglichkeit einer Insel for the Berlin Art Prize, Berlin, Germany, 2022
Installation view, The Master's Shoes at Die Möglichkeit einer Insel for the Berlin Art Prize, Berlin, Germany, 2022
Installation view, The Master's Shoes at Die Möglichkeit einer Insel for the Berlin Art Prize, Berlin, Germany, 2022
Installation view, The Master's Shoes at Die Möglichkeit einer Insel for the Berlin Art Prize, Berlin, Germany, 2022
A Desatadora (The Untier), 2020, mixed media, framed, 16 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (42 x 32 cm)
A Desatadora (The Untier), 2020, mixed media, framed, 16 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (42 x 32 cm)
Installation view, The Master's Shoes at Die Möglichkeit einer Insel for the Berlin Art Prize, Berlin, Germany, 2022
Water Compass, 2022, watercolor on paper
Installation view, The Other Side of Water, Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, 2022
Água da Noite (Nightwater), 2021, watercolour graphite on paper, 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches (40 x 30 cm)
To give animated figures the impression of movement, 2023, glazed ceramics, wood, full height: 168 inches (each tile: 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches, 11 total), installation dimensions variable
To give animated figures the impression of movement, 2023 (detail)
To give animated figures the impression of movement, 2023 (detail)
Installation view, Stranger belongs to me, TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Austria, 2023
Installation view, Stranger belongs to me, TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Austria, 2023
The Nine Halves Cat (storyboard), 2023, mixed media
Installation view, Butterflies, David Peter Francis, New York, 2024
Still Men (#1), 2022, glazed ceramic tiles, wood, 40 3/4 x 56 3/4 inches (103.5 x 144.1 cm)
Installation view, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Netherlands, 2024
I was under the impression of movement, 2024, paper, steel, wood, 47 1/4 x 35 1/2 inches (120 x 90 cm)
I was under the impression that there was something between us, 2024, paper, steel, wood, 47 1/4 x 35 1/2 inches (120 x 90 cm)
I was under the impression that there was something between us, 2024 (detail)
Installation view, OPENART Biennial, Örebro, Sweden, 2022
Installation view, OPENART Biennial, Örebro, Sweden, 2022
Installation view, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2023
Installation view, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2023
Os Desorientes da Pantera, 2021, glazed ceramic tiles, wooden panels
Installation view, Small Sculpture Triennial Fellbach, the Vibration of Things, Fellbach, Germany, 2022
Colonial Palace, 2022, drawing on paper, 30 3/4 x 22 inches (78 x 56 cm)
Installation view, Marginal Blues, Espace 3353, Geneva, Switzerland, 2020
Installation view, Marginal Blues, Espace 3353, Geneva, Switzerland, 2020
Marginal Blues, 2020, unfired glaze on ceramic tiles, 100 x 80 cm
Choreographie für Zeit, 2016, multi media installation, variable dimensions
Choreographie für Zeit, 2016, multi media installation, variable dimensions
Choreographie für Zeit, 2016, multi media installation, variable dimensions
Installation view, Read Before the Fire, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany, 2020
Installation view, Read Before the Fire, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany, 2020
Trocadouro (They saw it last), 2018/2020, 15 wood frames, bookbinding mull, acrylic paint, wheels, 86 3/4 35 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches (210 x 90 x 4 cm)
Not every cord is d'accord, 2018, hand stitched cotton on silk, wooden frame, 43 1/2 x 37 1/2 inches (110 x 95 cm)
Cantos, 2020, hand stitched cotton on silk, wooden frame, 53 x 53 inches (135 x 135 cm)
Debaixo da sentença sem tempo (Under the timeless sentence), 2018, hand stitched cotton on cotton
detail, Debaixo da sentença sem tempo (Under the timeless sentence), 2018, hand stitched cotton on cotton
Hand Dialogue (after Kollwitz, after Clark), 2019, glazed ceramic tiles, Tunnel's inner walls: 33 feet x 8 feet (10 x 2.5m)
Comissioned by the Senators für Kultur Bremen for the pedestrial tunnel at the Käthe-Kollwitz- Straße in Bremen Lesum.
Hand Dialogue (after Kollwitz, after Clark), 2019 (detail)
Hand Dialogue (after Kollwitz, after Clark), 2019 (detail)
Installation view, The Island of Vera Cruz (manuscript), 2015, multi media room installation, variable dimensions
detail, The Island of Vera Cruz (manuscript), 2015, multi media room installation, variable dimensions
Installation view, Lingual (Descending), 2019; Lingual (Assembling), 2020, acrylic paint, leather, rice, variable dimensions, Kal. District, Berlin, 2021
Under the Influence. Above, the Sun, 2017, light therapy boxes, acrylic paint, 31 1/2 x 20 inches (80 x 50 cm) each
Installation view, Under the Influence. Above, the Sun, NUDA, Stockholm, 2017
Installation view, Casa Odahara e Rossi, Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Bremen, Germany, 2018
Disfigure (Conto Condensado), 2018, charcoal on cotton, 55 x 37 1/2 inches (140 x 95 cm)
Installation view, Casa Odahara e Rossi, Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Bremen, Germany, 2018