Ketterer Kunst Masterclass 2024, Munich (DE) September 10 - 13, 2024
Das Gesicht des Wanderers, Oktogon Dresden (DE) May 24 - June 23, 2024
#8 Julia Schmelzer + Los Oushi Lin, Foyer42 Basel (CH), March 27 – April 24, 2024
Begegnungen // Ontmoetingen: SWARM, Goethe-Institut Rotterdam (NL)| March 14 - 24, 2024
Meisterschülerausstellung HfBK Dresden, Oktogon Dresden (DE), January 26 – April 14, 2024
Vom Schatten ans Licht - NCT/UCC Dresden (DE) Aug 21, 2023 - Aug 2024
Robert-Sterl-Preis 2023, Robert-Sterl-Haus, Struppen/Naundorf (DE), Sep 22 - Oct 29, 2023
SITU Festival - Teatro Comunale Leonardo Sciascia, Chiaramonte di Gulfi (IT), Sep 8 - Sep 10, 2023
Julia Schmelzer is an artist and curator living in Dresden, Germany. After studying in Dresden and Paris, she graduated from the Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste in Dresden and attended Carsten Nicolai's master class for time-based media. Her work has been shown in various exhibitions in Germany, France, Italy, and Switzerland. She is the recipient of the Robert Sterl Award 2023 and winner of the Ketterer Masterclass 2024 Award.
In video essays, time-based painting and site-specific as well as immersive installations, her artistic work explores the depths of time and invisible structures. Points of contact between phenomenology and speculation are analyzed and the relationship between man and machine is explored.
Society and its techno-liberal currents are as much a subject as mythology or the visual language of popular culture, which form the background for the fictions that are the focus of her work.
In addition to her artistic research, Schmelzer is co-founder and director of the international platform for media and time based art PYLON and curator of the exhibition space HYBRID Box in Dresden.