lou liska

Lou Liska is a gender-queer performer, artist, and human ecologist based in Guntramsdorf, near Vienna, Austria.
Coming to art without formal training, Lou’s practice is shaped by a working-class background and a sustained engagement with structures of power. Social, economic, and political hierarchies inform an ongoing investigation into how identity, agency, and self-empowerment are negotiated within, and against, these systems. A non-binary perspective functions as both position and method, resisting fixed categories in favor of fluid, relational modes of making.
Working across performance, photography, painting, and video, Lou creates intimate, hybrid works that foreground the body as a site of knowledge. Recent projects examine contemporary power dynamics and gender roles through the lens of a self increasingly entangled with digital technologies and AI. By placing the analogue logic of the body in tension with the synthetic logic of technology, Lou’s work asks how embodiment, autonomy, and desire are being reshaped in the present.