Julia Emslander
A dark grey monochrome palette.
View of Julia Emslander's studio.
Julia Emslander presents a portfolio of works dating from 2017 to 2020 for TheArtists. Employing a dark grey monochrome palette of charcoal, graphite, black and metallic pigments and chalk-like paint, Emslander’s artworks reference the asphalt of the city she inhabits, distilling her personal experiences into painting. Colour becomes material, its striated and time-exposed surfaces assuming the role of the pictorial. Her process based art presents a sensual, emotional and aesthetic proposition, coming alive in the confrontation between the work and its viewers in an environment and the interplay between them – a phenomenological approach that heightens perceptions and enables multiple points of view.
Emslander gradually builds up an image space consisting of surfaces and lines in a typographical-architectural order and non-perspective depth. She studies and experiments with different pigments, materials and techniques, building surfaces through a process of applying, sanding, damaging, scratching and superimposing thin layers of paint, adopting techniques from art history and often turning them on their heads. This lengthy preparatory process allows improvisation and intuition in the moment of creation, for chance to play a part. “The field for art is infinite, borders are fluid and anything could be art,” she states, likening her artistic processes to performing in the techno-punk band Frauenstrasse or performing tattoos free-hand.
Text by Gair Burton
Detail view of the work Nocturne.
The field for art is infinite, borders are fluid and anything could be art.
Biography Julia Emslander
born 1989 in Starnberg, Germany
Education
since 2015 Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Germany / Painting and Graphics, Class Prof. Anke Doberauer (until 2019), Class Prof. Gregor Hildebrandt (since 2019)
2018 Studies at the École supérieure d´art et de design Marseille-Méditerranée, France
2010-2015 Bachelor of Arts, Communication Design at University of Applied Sciences Munich, Germany
Exhibitions (selection)
2021
Blick zurück nach vorn, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
Translation Realities, Lost Weekend meets Young Art, Munich, Germany
2020
Arrangements 1, T156, Munich, Germany (SOLO)
Ille #10, Ille Galerie, Munich, Germany
Pandemic Edition, Mucca, Munich, Germany
Drawing Restrictions, Rosa Stern, Munich, Germany
Der River, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
2019
MDCXIX, Annual Exhibition Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Germany
Super Books, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
100, Kunst Block Balve, Munich, Germany
2018
space is the place, Atelier Hyph, Marseille, France
HLM, hors les murs, Marseille, France
2017
Aprés Sun, Sommersalon, Munich, Germany (SOLO)
Seestück, Alte Rathaus Galerie, Prien am Chiemsee, Germany
Kopfkino, Wasserturm, Dachau, Germany
Prizes & Residencies
2020 Nomination for the Federal Prize for Art Students
2017/2018 Catalog sponsorship by the Akademieverein Munich
2017 Artist Residency at Fraueninsel am Chiemsee
More
Technical assistant in the painting workshop of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Dr. Kathrin Kinseher (since 2020)
Co-founder of SOBE magazine
Performer and singer of the band Frauenstrasse
Works by Julia Emslander
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Leaves
2017 / Photogram, print / 65 x 50 cm / 25.6 x 19.7 in (framed)
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Wood
2017 / Photogram, print / 65 x 50 cm / 25.6 x 19.7 in (framed)
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Tree
2017 / Photogram, print / 65 x 50 cm / 25.6 x 19.7 in (framed)