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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.

 

> 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