Milan Loviška and Otto Krause are undisciplinary artists whose work encompasses performance, installation, video, painting, textiles, costume and stage design, and new technologies. Their queer artistic practice, deeply rooted in research and experimentation, questions established modes of perception and invites uncanny perspectives on the experience of art. Working with unconventional methods and strategies, they draw inspiration from cross-disciplinary research processes. Their physically intense and imaginative works oscillate between aesthetic opulence and reduction, conceptually combining elements of popular culture and scientific inquiry, including gender studies, psychology, parapsychology, pornography, biology, new electronic media, AI, religion, film studies, superhero comics, and philosophy. Through their performative investigations, the artists articulate strong sociopolitical statements shaped by their distinctive artistic aesthetics. Their performance-based projects range from large-scale theatrical productions and performances in public spaces to more intimate situations in galleries and site-specific venues.
The artists live and work in Vienna and have presented their work in galleries, venues, festivals, and symposia across Europe and Asia, including Kunsthalle Exnergasse Vienna (performance & group exhibition, 2026), Queer Museum Vienna (performance & group exhibition, 2024), Studio Gross Tokyo (solo exhibition, 2024), YUP Festival/Kunsthalle Osnabrück (Performance, 2022), Austrian Cultural Forum Tokyo (online group exhibition, 2020), Blitz Valletta (solo exhibition, 2018), Kunstraum Niederösterreich Vienna (performance & solo exhibition, 2018; performance & group exhibition, 2015), ArtScience Museum Singapore (performance & group exhibition, 2016), ISEA Hong Kong (artist talk, 2016), Biennale for Slovenian Contemporary Dance Ljubljana (performance, 2015), among others.
In 2018, they received the H13 Lower Austria Prize for Performance, Austria’s only prize dedicated to performance art. More recently, they were awarded International Studio Fellowships in Tokyo (2024) and New York City (2026) by the Austrian Ministry of Culture.
Among their projects are - Furrious: Daddies in Regression (premiere Kunsthalle Exnergasse Vienna 2026); QAnus (premiere Queer Museum Vienna 2024); 門 [Gate] (premiere Studio Gross/Tokyo 2024); Thoughtography @ Unstable Nights (premiere Impulstanz, mumok Hofstallung/Vienna 2019); Furrious: Underwater (premiere Blitz/Valletta 2018); Furrious (premiere Kunstraum NÖ/Vienna 2018); Watchdogs (premiere Arbeitsplatz/Vienna 2017); P.P.M. (premiere Betwixt Festival/Singapore 2016); Third Life Project (premiere WUK/Vienna 2015); Behaviours That Puzzle (premiere Kunstraum NÖ/Vienna 2015); Esctopia (1st premiere Malta Festival/Poznań 2012/ 2nd premiere WUK/Vienna 2014); enclosed pleasure (premiere University of Applied Arts/ Vienna 2013); After This, Therefore Because of This (co-creation with Sebastijan Geč, premiere Tanzquartier/Vienna 2013); puppy has to suffer (premiere University of Applied Arts/ Vienna 2012); EchoodH (premiere Trafo Gallery/Prague 2011).