Lukas Moll - When we were almost happy

In the organizer's words:

In his solo exhibition "When we were almost happy" at Galerie Dietrich, Lukas invites us to wander through pictures that look like forgotten Polaroids - blurred, fragile and full of stories. The starting point was the search for his own roots in family albums, which on the one hand radiate familiarity, but on the other hand also tell of a youth that seemed unattainable for the artist as a queer teenager and make the alienation from his own family clear.

From this tension, Lukas has created an imaginary archive: Painted Polaroids of queer youths, fragments of a past that never existed - but could have.

The works move between nostalgia and alienation, between tenderness and pain. They open up a space in which memory is rethought and pose the question: What images do we need to recognize ourselves - and to belong to a story?