About
Julia Albrecht is a German lens-based artist. It forwards itself to video performance, poetic writing, 3D printed sculptures, or AI text-based generated photographs. Within this media usage, the blank human body appears as a tool to translate my thoughts and question sociological and psychological behaviours. Her topics examine the linkage between sociological and psychological research and are intensively preoccupied with personal experiences. It constantly draws from a profound curiosity for humanitarian issues and cultural phenomena. Her body of work touches the realms of the paradoxical in life.
The materials in her installations form a contrast and resemble a balancing act. The subject matter is found between the wellbeing and discomfort, the thesis and the antithesis of each individual. Finding one's way in society is like walking a tightrope from birth. The spaces between identity and memory emerge from this imbalance.
*currently based in London, UK
Education & Jobs
2022
Lecture for MA Visual Communication, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
Lecture for BA Photography, Arts University Bournemouth, UK
2020 - 2022
Photography, Master of Fine Arts (distinction), Royal College of Art, London, UK
2020
Lecturer for Photography, Faculty Art & Design, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
Online exhibition: www.struggle.gallery
2016 - 2020
Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Focus Photography (honours), Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
2017
Photography, Emmanuel College Boston, USA
Photography, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA
2012 - 2016
Media Art and Design Studies, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
2015
Media Art & Design, Focus Photography, TAMK - Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Exhibitions
09 / 2022 "HAUTE", Museum Square, Amsterdam, Netherlands
08 / 2022 "After The Waiting Room", Copeland Gallery, London, UK
07 / 2022 "One is not born but rather becomes", The Bhavan Gallery, London, UK
06 / 2022 "RCA Graduate Show 2022", Royal College of Art, London, UK
03 / 2022 "They spent all our money at the Dubai Expo. xD", London, UK
09 / 2021 "PHOTOPIA", Hamburg, Germany
07 / 2021 "Medienkunstpreis 2021", Weimar, Germany
01 / 2021 "WiP 2021", Royal College of Art, London, UK
12 / 2020 "36th annual open", Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK
11 / 2020 "When it hurts to become, #window187, London UK
09 / 2020 "When it hurts to become", Weimar, Germany (solo)
02 / 2020 "After fertilisation", Weimar, Germany
10 / 2019 "Waste and void", Erlangen, Germany
09 / 2019 "Tbilisi Photofestival", Tbilisi, Georgia
07 / 2019 "Burden of success", Weimar, Germany (solo)
07 / 2019 "Utopia.Planitia", Apolda, Germany
05 / 2019 "Silvester in fremden Betten", Weimar, Germany
05 / 2019 "Salonfaehig #4", Reizüberflutung, Weimar, Germany
04 / 2019 "Extrempunkte", Spinnereirundgang, Leipzig, Germany
04 / 2019 "Studio Vortex 2019", Voice Off, Arles, France
07 / 2018 "Ausgangspunkt FAMILIE", Weimar, Germany
07 / 2018 "Und morgen treffen wir uns gestern", Weimar, Germany
06 / 2018 "GRAND OUVERT", Kunsthaus Erfurt, Germany
04 / 2018 "Kunstfests Artlezia", Lyon France
07 / 2017 "Silver and Moonshine III", Weimar, Germany
07 / 2017 "Vielen Dank für Ihre Aufmerksamkeit", Weimar, Germany
04 / 2017 "Apokalypse", Mühlhausen, Germany
07 / 2016 "An einem anderen Tag", Weimar, Germany (solo)
08 / 2014 "Hant-Magazin", Erfurt, Deutschland
07 / 2014 "Immer Irgendwo Anders", Weimar, Germany
Awards & Stipends & Residencies
07 / 2022 "Shadow Labs Mentorship Award"
07 / 2022 "Canon Student Development Programme"
03 / 2022 "Nikon-NOOR Academy France"
09 / 2021 "Hamburg Portfolio Review"
06 / 2021 "DAAD Scholarship for fine art students"
07 / 2021 "Medienkunstpreis 2021" (nominated)
07 / 2021 "Canon Student Development Programme"
09 / 2020 "Rose Finn-Kelcey Scholarship"
03 / 2020 "DAAD Scholarship for fine art students"
12 / 2019 "Hahnemühle Student Photo Competition", Shortlist
06 / 2019 "Women's Promotion Fund"
05 / 2019 "Kreativfond", for "Go inside a slaughterhouse"
04 / 2019 "Studio Vortex" Artist Residency, Arles, France
04 / 2019 "Bauhaus Scholarship 2019"
07 / 2018 "Bauhaus Essentials"
06 / 2018 "Women's Promotion Fund", for "Destiny of a white horse"
08 / 2017 "DAAD scholarship"
07 / 2016 "Bilder-Bank-Preis", second prize
Publication & Features
09 / 2021 "Flut Vol.3"
07 / 2021 "Velvet Eyes - Artist-Feature"
04 / 2021 "Der Greif - Artist-Blog"
04 / 2021 "Der Greif - Artist-Feature"
03 / 2021 "The waiting room"
10 / 2020 "Slanted Magazine #36—COEXIST"
06 / 2020 "Balam N6: MESTIZX"
03 / 2020 "Waste and void", exhibition catalogue
12 / 2019 "FineArtPrinter - Issue 1/2020"
07 / 2018 "Grand Ouvert - Bauhaus photography at its finest"
Curatorial activities
03 / 2022 "They spent all our money at the Dubai Expo. xD", London, UK
02 / 2022 "They even had a pool party. LOL", London, UK
01 / 2022 "Where was this announced", London, UK
12 / 2021 "I think people are going for the walls", London, UK
08 / 2020 "The struggle is part of the Story", Online exhibition: www.struggle.gallery
08 / 2019 "the women of the house", Jenaer Kunstverein e.V., Jena, Germany
09 / 2018 "B11 Marke.6", Positions Art Fair, Berlin, Germany
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