DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin

Lukas Städler

For Art-O-Rama, Lukas Städler proposes a new body of photographic work produced in Marseille during summer 2026. Moving between Berlin and Marseille, the artist engages closely with the city’s social and spatial fabric, photographing in public parks, beaches, and informal gathering sites, including cruising areas such as Mont Rose. 

 

The series extends Städler’s focus on intimacy and community, combining spontaneous encounters with collaborative portraits. He works with artists, performers, and local figures, including connections to Ballet de Marseille, capturing the networks that shape Marseille’s contemporary cultural landscape. 

 

Centered on themes of identity, openness, and belonging, the project reflects Marseille as a site where urban life and nature intersect, where bodies, landscapes, and animals coexist, and where queer visibility unfolds in public space. 

 

Städler, born in 1992 and based in Berlin, develops an intimate photographic practice between staging and spontaneity, revealing how people love, live, and relate, shaped by a visual language rooted in contemporary aesthetics and queer identity.

 

The booth presents a dynamic mix of scales and formats, including framed photographs, works on paper, and collage. Conceived as a smart booth, it foregrounds experimentation, mobility, and the artist’s lived experience in Marseille. In parallel, Städler produces a limited-edition zine documenting his time in the city, available at the fair, extending the project through additional images and offering a more immediate and tactile form of engagement.

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