artist
Lukáš Matejka is a Slovak “multilateral” artist, born in 1987. In 2016 he successfully completed his PhD degree in the Free Visual Arts program at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, where he also worked as an external lecturer. He lives and works in Trenčín. He is currently working as a teacher for the Audiovisual and Media Department at SZUŠ in Nová Dubnica. He often signs his projects with the author’s pseudonym Akjetam produkt. In the early years of his work, he was mainly devoted to the medium of painting. Gradually, however, he switches from the static to the moving image, where he prefers mainly video art. He has been working intensively with new media since 2006 – first in the Digital Media Studio of Doc. Michal Murin, ArtD.
He plays with several border positions not only of digital media. By striving to connect individual art forms, he creates innovative artistic overlaps. His work is dominated by working with process, which is emphasized by the author himself. He puts the process above the result. His creative production focuses mainly on contemporary forms such as video, short film, net-art, multimedia projects, interactive installations, performance, vj, videomapping and also graphic design. He regularly applies the found footage technique in his works. Content-wise, in a broader sense, he deals with social research, contrast, intimacy, perception, but also counterpoints, such as the multi-layered critique of war and institutions.
Lukáš Matejka is the founder, coordinator and curator of the international Festival of Light and Shadow, as well as of the Videoart match project, which confronts European student videos and video art in a public, non-literary environment. In 2009 Lukáš initiated the creation of the TRAKT civic association, www.trakt.sk – where he serves as chairman. Since 2008 he has actively collaborated with the international film festival Cinematik Pieštany, where he curated the Videoart section. For Štúdio tanca Banská Bystrica he created projections for the production Pena dni (2010) by Boris Vian or Prevail of the Good (2017). He has also prepared theatrical projections for The Mystery of the House of Facts (Michal Ditte) and Paperback (Miro Dacho), as well as for the international contemporary opera-ballet project Equinoxe and The Last Anniversary. He collaborates with Platform DigiVAF(ex), Platform for Contemporary Dance and Theatre P.A.T., festivals Kremnica Gags, Cirkulart, Amplión, ARA ART, Pôtoň Bátovce Theatre, etc. He participates and participates in several national and international exhibitions, workshops and festivals. Among the many we choose exhibitions (Digital media, Velocypedia, 7seven touches, Level of movement, Borderless, In the process) and festivals (White Night, Skyway, Divadelná Nitra, Azyl, Early melons, Bratislava International Film Festival, Ostrava-picture, Images contre nature, Minimotion, Videomedeja, CollogneOFF or the 1st video art festival in Syria). In addition to the Festival of Light and Shadow in Banská Bystrica, Lukáš Matejka also founded the second festival platform Multifestival (Children’s Festival) and is actively involved in the preparation of the Light art festival Trenčín (within the European Capital of Culture Trenčín 2026). In addition to TRAKT, he is also an active member of the Association of Creatives.
His varied portfolio can be found at www.idm.aku.sk/lukas-matejka
