www.juliagerke.net Instagram Julia Gerke lives and works in Leipzig. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Kunsthochschule Mainz. Currently she studies at Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig. Her sculptural installations often include text, objects and sound. She explores how abstract concepts such as memory or time and internal states are reflected in architectural spaces and elements. In collaboration with artists she creates different platforms such as zines, art festivals and exhibitions. Since 2019 she is co-founder of POKY – Institute of Contemporary Art, Mainz.
> selected works celestial bodies (2021) > view here fragments of an institute (2020, w/ Alina Röbke) > Kunsthalle Mainz I couldn’t quite tell if it was me hunting the time or the time hunting me (2020) > POKY – Institute of Contemporary Art > sound piece a touch of time (2019) > Opelvillen Rüsselsheim
> CV since 2020 Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (Prof. Joachim Blank) 2015 – 2020 Kunsthochschule Mainz (Prof. Sabine Groß) 2016 – 2017 California State University Chico, USA 2012 – 2018 German philology, Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz > solo / duo exhibitions / projects 2020 I COULDN’T QUITE TELL IF IT WAS ME HUNTING THE TIME OR THE TIME HUNTING ME, POKY – Institute of Contemporary Art, Mainz 2020 POKY – Institute of Contemporary Art (curatorial sculpture / project space) w/ Alina Röbke, Mainz 2019 chains (Zine) w/ Julia Carolin Kothe, Mainz/Glasgow (CCA Glasgow) 2017 if nothing lasts forever, can i be nothing, MFA Gallery, Chico (USA) > selected group exhibitions 2021 museumfuernaturkun.de, w/ Klasse Blank 2020 Anybody out there? 100 Jahre Radio in Deutschland, D21 Leipzig, > (listen) playful phonetics w/ Alicia Franzke 2020 AFAIR – as far as I remember, online publication by DER TYP, concept & publishing: Catharina Szonn & Sarah Reva Mohr 2020 FLUX4ART, Sayner Hütte, Sayn 2020 Wir leben auf einem Stern, Kunsthalle Mainz 2019 Sockelalarm #14: PUT PUT PUT, PutPutPut-Kollektiv, Jockel-Fuchs-Platz, Mainz 2019 Schleuse ausgelagert, Kunst-und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim 2018 Festival der jungen Talente, Frankfurter Kunstverein 2018 Frozen Moments, Eisenkunstgussmuseum, Sayn 2018 Wood, Metal, Burns, Paint, Plexiglas, Neon, Copper, Klasse Sabine Groß, Künstlerverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden > Awards and grants 2020 Gutenberg-Lehrkolleg-Preis, award for best graduation exhibition, Mainz 2020 project grant for POKY – Institute of Contemporary Art 2019 project grant for chains (zine) 2019 project grant for PUTPUTPUT since 2016 Cusanuswerk scholar