Michaela Lukmann

ARTHENA MAXX aka Michaela Lukmann was born in 1969 in the small town of Bärnbach in western Styria. After completing technical training at BULME in Gösting near Graz and numerous additional training courses in the field of financial engineering as well as a university course in real estate management, she worked internationally as a business incubator. Lukmann, mother of three daughters, has been working as a freelance artist since 2013.

At the charity auction event at the Dorotheum in 2018, Arthena Maxx was chosen among the top 70 artists in Austria. Lukmann has been running his own gallery in Voitsberg since 2019. In recent years, Lukmann's work has been presented at several international exhibitions and art fairs, including in Switzerland (Swiss Expo Zurich 2019, 2020 and 2021), in the USA (Art Miami 2019,2022), in Spain (Art Barcelona 2021) and in China (Art Beijing 2019) and Hong Art Museum Chongqing Pashmin Art 2021) as well as Venice Biennale with ARTBOX Group (2022), ART Munich 2022, Arte de Mallorca in the Casa del Arte www.casadelartepalma.com Palma de Mallorca and in December 2022 again at ART Miami Basel.

Among 400 works and 40 artists at the Art Museum Chongqing Pashmin Art 2021 exhibition, she was the only painter selected for Aesthetica Magazine for her extraordinary Artdress sculptures. From her works and digital graphics, limited edition ARTCHAIRS and ARTBAGS were created for the first time in England. She founded NFTISM as an art and a way of life and transforms all of her works into tamper-proof digital works of art as NFTOKENs. That's why she was a participant in the first Global NFT Congress in Belvedere Vienna in 2022. She took part in three major auctions: ALBERTINA Vienna with Dorotheum Vienna September 30th Artwork: WATER is LIFE 2021, auction at Antik Möbel Hesz GmbH Artwork: SPIRIT of LIFE 2021, auction at the Oidanativ Cultural Center Artwork: TEAM.

In 2022, the art dress sculpture “ZEDERNICA” was created in your Mikizzan workshop in the city of Voitsberg for 777 years. Arthena Maxx bequeaths the #VO777 cycle to the city of Voitsberg. In 2022, ARTHENA MAXX was nominated in 7 categories at the Creativ Club Austria Award and at the Artprize Luxenburg with 14 ARTWORKS and Art Laguna Prize. In January 2023 she started her 1st world tour with exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Amsterdam, Zurich, Miami and much more, as well as participation in Arte, with selected paintings combined with her digital arts “DieMAXXo” under her art form NFTISMUS www.nftismus.com Firenze (purchase of her work by the Redi Collection), Arte Rome, Arte Bratislava (out of 200 works among the 3 best works in the exhibition) and Arte Venice twice and always named the best work in the exhibition by art critics, as well as Arte Milano, Arte Florence and Art Miami. Two large solo exhibitions such as NOVA-ART in the Hotel & Therme Nova with 120 works under the title “Unlimited”, and Art of Life club under the title “UnSeen Paintings”. In addition, Arthena Maxx's life's work is the opening of the world's largest frieze that a woman has ever painted, or the longest painting that a woman has ever created, consisting of 25 aluminum dipond panels, weighing approx. 2.5 tons and 1000 hours of work and the dimensions of 37.6m * 2.5m (expanded to 3.5m in 2024).

The work is entered into the Guinness Book of Records and accompanying exhibitions include the “Masterpieces of Women's Art” exhibition and the annual Mikizzan Christmas Art Exhibition. As a member of the Styrian Art Association (founded in 1865), she was selected for the annual Künstlerhofschau 2023 (of the 58 best artists in Styria) and launched the exhibition series “Together Styrian Werkbund” and held 10 vernissages with 20 artists on different topics and the NFT token discovered as a counterfeit-proof element. As a self-taught artist, Lukmann developed a style of painting that can be assigned to fantastic realism, but goes far beyond it due to his specific choice of materials: Lukmann paints on different surfaces, not only on canvas, but also on textiles and clothing, and transforms them into extraordinary art dress sculptures and tapestries Combine materials such as gold leaf, silver leaf, Swarovski crystals, acrylic paints with different painting techniques. Airbrush, acrylic painting on canvas or spatula technique are just three examples from Lukmann's artistic repertoire. In terms of content, Lukmann deals with a wide range of topics in her works: the human eye or parts of it are recurring motifs. Since 2013, “Arthena Maxx” has created over 50 work cycles, consisting of around 1000 works of art (paintings, tapestries, art dress sculptures, prints & graphics, digital art, ceramics, photographs, videos, etc.). Memberships: Kunsthaus Zug, founder of the Mikizzner workshop in Voitsberg, member of the Graz Art Association, member of the Styrian Werkbund.

Ranked among the 1 million best artists in the world by Artfacts, and for the art form NFTISM, the cornerstone for the arts rating of other traditional and digital artists and NFT artists. Founder of the Museale Art Center Mikizzner & Galerie Mikizzner, the Mikizzan artist community and project Bärn-ART, initiator of the independent women's art Woman-ART, as well as womenism.