Presentation of the Caspar David Friedrich Prize 2025 and opening of the prizewinners' exhibition

Presentation of the Caspar David Friedrich Prize 2025 to Lukas Maksay and opening ceremony of the award-winning exhibition "What Do We Do When We Get Lost In The Forest?" in the gallery of the CDF Center on Saturday, October 11, 2025, at 2 pm. Admission is free.

About the exhibition and the artist:

Born in 1999, Lukas Maksay grew up in a small town in Middle Franconia, Bavaria. Surrounded by forests and fields, these were his first contact with the world outside his parents' home. Since 2019, he has been studying sculpture at the Dresden University of Fine Arts under Wilhelm Mundt and Alicja Kwade, among others.

In his work, Lukas Maksay deals intensively with human perception, man-made nature and its materiality. His artistic practice is characterized by conceptual clarity and a reduced, yet ambiguous aesthetic - a play with contrasts that poetically reflects the relationship between cultural continuity and transformation.

The contrast between constructed objects and dissolving objects is deliberately equated. Materials are taken over by natural organisms or completely decomposed. This visual tension reflects the duality of tradition and modernity, of delicacy and coarseness, of memory and the present, of creative power and decay.