about luka

Luka Hernet (1998) is a photographer and musician from Maribor, Slovenia. Since 2018, he has been engaged in documentary, concert and contemporary photography. In his work, he is always looking for symmetrical, raw, aesthetic elements, which he usually only finds in everyday, normalized objects.

Since 2019, he has managed to present himself at local group and solo exhibitions in Maribor every year, as well as in Ljubljana.
He worked in portrait and concert photography with local bands and artists such as Laibach, Matter, Haiku Garden, .travnik, Happy Ol’ Mcweasel, Morvern, Alo!Stari and others.

He currently works in Ljubljana and Maribor under the name – Punctum Studio.

Solo exhibitons

2022 – I ran away, but I’m staying (UGM, Maribor)

2024 – I ran away, but I’m staying (Gallery Šolt, Ljubljana)

Group exhibitions

2019 – Izodraz (SNG, Maribor)

2020 – Patterns (Pisarna, Maribor)

2021 – Epidemic Through The Lens (Vetrinjski Dvor, Maribor)

2023 – newF (Photo Gallery Stolp, Maribor)

2024 – We Love To See You Fail (Gallery Photon, Ljubljana)

Publications

2021 – Close to Heaven (Trash Press, USA)

2021 – Banal Mag vol. 2 (Banal Magazine, UK)

2022 – CUKR 2 (Cukrarna, Slovenia)

2024 – CUKR 6 (Cukrarna, Slovenia)

2024 – Literatura #398 (LUD Literatura, Slovenia)