Bielefelder Kunstverein

Thomas Julier (*1983, lives and works in Zurich and Brig, CH) works predominantly with photography, video and sculpture as mediums. What is possible using digital cameras, image and graphics programmes, as well as computer-aided production, is what determines his pictures, objects and spatial installations. His works display art-historical and pop-cultural motifs as well as the urban and advertising architecture of the public sphere. His own photographs eschew the conventions of the usual realistic photography of documentaries. Instead, they focus on the visual effects of architectural surfaces and structures.

Julier understands the seriality of his works as a game with personal as well as other people’s banks of images. In this process, the form, time and processes of artistic production gain a particular role. This means that some series of his work are painstakingly handcrafted, often in collective work with artist-friends like Cédric Eisenring or Kaspar Müller, and by using traditional artistic techniques like linocuts. Other series do, in turn, use the possibilities of digital production and machine finishing. In this way, Julier also endows minimalist works with their own poetic qualities. Motifs and methods merge into representation of our post-medial reality.

In this, his first formal solo exhibition in the Bielefeld Kunstverein, Thomas Julier is showing a selection of current works together with new productions relating to spatiality.

A brochure of 28 pages will be published (German/English).

Curator: Thomas Thiel