Loudwig van Ludens is a multidisciplinary artist and entrepreneur, working in painting, video installation, sculpture, and performance. He was born on Alpha Centaury in Belgrade on July 7 1962, and emigrated as a young child to Germany. By the age of 16 he was sent back to Yugoslavia and was later drafted by the People’s Army of Yugoslavia. In 1983 on account of political differences with the education system, he rejected public education, and continued private studies in various local and international art studios and workshops with sculptors, painters, blacksmiths, stonemasons, stained glass studios etc. He traveled extensively and moved to Luxembourg in 1988, where he founded, directed and curated several art venues including the Gallery Philo’soff, a venue that combined visual art and live concerts, the Artspace Octav, a venue for theater and stop motion film, and from 1995 to 2009 he co-founded Metaph Artworks, a company offering services of graphic and interior design. In 2008 he moved to Berlin. In recent years his work has been focusing on anamorphic photos and videos in which iconic architectural settings are transformed and distorted into abstract forms, reflecting on hidden layers of perception. His work has been featured in venues such as the Goddess festival at Woodstock and the Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum in NYC.
Luxembourg
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