Lukas Marstaller is a designer and artist based in Berlin, Germany. At the intersection of functional art, experimental communication and collaborative formations, his practice is formulated in objects, installations, publications, websites and sound. He co-founded the design studio BNAG and is part of FAN Collective. He is a lecturer and associated researcher at University of Arts and Design Offenbach am Main.
Recent
- *new* Scenography and Graphic Design with BNAG for Hallo, mein Name ist Kunstbau, an experimental exhibition, education and mediation format at Lenbachhaus München. Image: Workshop with Raumfragen.
- Artistic direction for House of Switzerland Milano by Present Switzerland and Pro Helvetia. Together with Dorothee Dähler, Kaj Lehmann, Oliver-Selim Boualam, Yeliz Secerli.
- ABC C-o-n-n-e-c-t: Uniting fonts and furniture — a digital dot font and an accompanying set of metal brackets let users create lettershapes with screws to build furniture. Collaboration between BNAG and Dinamo Typefaces.
- FARM, an exhibition on the organic farm Rimpertsweiler near Lake Constance by BNAG, Haus Otto, Johanna Seelemann, Hannah Kuhlmann, Studio Œ. A publication about the project is currently in progress.
- Sunny Studio, a five-day workshop as part of the summer school at Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt. Documented as a collaboratively edited and designed publication.
- Summhaus, an installation for collective humming and recreation with participatory objects and a diverse program on humming by BNAG.
Ongoing
- Teaching and researching on playful spatial metaphors at Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach’s art department.
- BNAG, a multi-sensory laboratory for design as a social practice founded 2013 together with Oliver-Selim Boualam.
- FAN Collective, formed together with ten artists and designers, initiating a variety of projects on an irregular basis.
- Tools Books, a Berlin based publishing format started in 2025.
- An ongoing lecture series organized at HfG Offenbach.
- Producing music and physical audio carriers as Luka08.
Further readings
- designboom features our artistic direction for House of Switzerland Milano 2024
- Background story of ABC C-o-n-n-e-c-t in Disegno Journal
- In PIN-UP 25, Alice Bucknell portraits BNAG’s practice
- Summlochs on IGNANT, words by Rosie Flanagan
- Stella Roos wrote for Monocle about BNAG
- dezeen: BNAG's Body Buddies ceramics champion body diversity
Teaching, Lectures, Workshops
- *soon* Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar (DE)
- *soon* AMD Akademie Mode & Design Berlin (DE)
- Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle (DE)
- Hochschule der Künste Bern (CH)
- Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (DE)
- Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main (DE)
- Hochschule Mainz, Fachbereich Gestaltung (DE)
- Kunsthochschule Kassel (DE)
- Summer school, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
- Villa Lena Art Foundation, Palaia (IT)
- among others.
Past exhibitions
- 019 Ghent (BE)
- Badischer Kunstverein (DE)
- Design Miami (US)
- Etage Projects, Copenhagen (DK)
- Functional Art Gallery, Berlin (DE)
- Friedman Benda, New York City (US)
- Kunsthalle Basel (CH)
- Kunstverein Göttingen (DE)
- Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe (DE)
- Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch (DE)
- Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul (KR)
- Schloss Hollenegg (AT)
- SCHUNCK, Heerlen (NL)
- ZKM – Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (DE)
- among others.
Contact
Lukas Marstaller
Atelier EG links
Obentrautstr. 71
10963 Berlin
E-mail, Instagram
Last updated December 12, 2025
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