Roman Liška German, b. 1980
“Arguably anyone making art today operates within the Post-Internet paradigm, whether they acknowledge this or not. In fact, the possibility of unawareness of the concept of Post-internet and its implications is further proof of its validity. The internet is as ubiquitous as water is to fish, who (presumably) do not question its ubiquity or why they are immersed in it, it is simply a default setting, a never-not-wet state of existence, they don’t know it any other way.”
–Roman Liška
Roman Liška (b. 1980, Hamburg, Germany) lives and works in Berlin and Weimar where he is Artistic Associate at the Professorship of Experimental Painting and Drawing at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. He holds a BA from Goldsmiths University of London (2011) and a MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London (2013). Liška’s rich conceptual approach to painting explores how contemporary painting practices and internet culture intersect to form hybrid entities. More than ever, learning, or even unlearning how to paint today means, to quote Stephen Westfall, “learning to play with contexts.” The implications of this statement lean into the importance of recognising the contexts within which a painting is seen alongside the field within which it is made. Its all about the network. If you are confused, then you are on the right track, for if you think you understand painting today, you likely have not appreciated the fully transformed landscape the hyperobject of painting now negotiates.
