CCA Berlin is pleased to invite you to the opening of Lukas Luzius Leichtle: Eindringling on 10 Sep 2025, as part of Berlin Art Week 2025.

Eindringling (Intruder) marks Lukas Luzius Leichtle’s first solo exhibition in Berlin, featuring new paintings created site-specifically. With a disturbingly meticulous finish and painstaking control, Leichtle’s oil works evoke the strangeness of having a body. The title refers to Jean-Luc Nancy’s book L’Intrus (The Intruder), in which the philosopher reflects on his experience of living with a heart transplant that gave him cancer.

Drawn to the humiliations and ecstasies of flesh, Leichtle's images are at once caress and intrusion, uncovering the beauty and horror of looking too closely. Under such obsessive scrutiny, common features of human body become alien, overexposed, and unsettling. Fingernails appear as foreign objects burrowing into flesh; folds resemble open wounds; bathroom tiles become extensions of the body’s intimate landscape. By guiding our gaze to estrange what's most familiar, Leichtle reveals the porosity of subjectivity and the leaky borders between inside and outside, ego and the world.