René Luckhardt

René Luckhardt (born 1972) is a Swiss-German artist. Luckhardt holds a Master of Fine Art degree in painting from Chelsea College of Arts, London.

Luckhardt's art often deals with positions in art history, most recently with those of Man Ray or Marjorie Cameron. His practice has been described as "ricerche" (Peter Weiermair). Luckhardt uses the source materials for "multiple transformations." "The archaeological process is not obscured, but becomes part of the work itself by raising questions about the original and the copy." In other series the paintings are "sculpturally transformed". Undergoing a process of endless reproduction and anamorphosis, the painting sculptures appear like "totem(s) of cultural history".

Luckhardt counts Lewis Carroll and Aleister Crowley among his influences. In 2010, he reproduced the latter's Chambre des Cauchemars of the Abbey of Thelema in a gallery space. In 2010, he initiated the international artist salon Wonderloch Kellerland in Berlin, satellites of which existed in Los Angeles and Manhattan. Wonderloch Kellerland is included in the Art Spaces Directory of the New Museum, New York. Luckhardt is co-author of HER, the Hermetic Experimental Research project.