Julia Murakami

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Contemporary Art Fair, Zollverein. We’ll be there!

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contemporary art ruhr, 
the innovative art fair, 26 – 28 october 2018

Directors Lounge presents genre-straddling slices of cinematic art and cuts of media experimentation at the c.a.r. video lounge with Angela Christlieb and Maria Niro’s “IN AN ALIEN LAND”, Céline Trouillets “SONG” series and experimental works from the Medienwerkstatt Berlin and Leo Kuelbs Collection.

contemporary art ruhr, World Cultural Heritage Site Zollverein, 
 
Gelsenkirchener Str. 209, 
45309 Essen

Opening Reception: Friday, October 26, 8 pm, V.I.P.-Preview, 6 pm

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Encounters On Travel | Fata Morgana Galerie, Berlin 14.09. – 20.09.18

Photography, mixed media and installations by Julia Murakami & André Werner   Ahead of the Berlin art week the Fata Morgana gallery opens an exhibition of works by Julia Murakami and André Werner that is as subliminal as it is immersive.

What both artists unites is an artistic approach that does not only reflects an existing reality but rather transcends into the imagery of new realities.

The multiverse of Julia Murakami is filled with layers of Greek mythology, Marvel heroes and Hollywood icons, a world unbound to gravity where dreams and Chimeras lure in the dark. Julia Murakami depicts this strange and surreal realm with a casual implicitness that, like old family photographs, triggers a moment of déjà vu. And, in fact, private photographs, self-portraits and memorabilia are often the starting point in the works of Julia Murakami. Images from unknown, yet familiar worlds. www.juliamurakami.com    André Werner is rather an observer than a producer of pictures. Like an ornithologist with a camera, he is a hunter and collector in the realm of the images. What get caught in his machinery of TV sets, cameras, printers and copiers, is often already an image of an image of an image. The pictures that are freely floating in the net, constantly multiplying themselves, are frozen in a single moment of their metamorphoses, not to capture them, but to celebrate their autopoietic beauty. The alchemical process of creating such images is as important as the final output and the interactive video installation “circles” offers the spectator a chance to become part of such a play in a game with his own image. www.artyesno.com

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  Image Credit: Was vom Kino übrig bleibt | What Remains Of Cinema. #1 La Femme et Le Fou. André Werner, photograph based on an interactive video installation, 2018  ______________________   Fata Morgana Galerie, Torstraße 170, 10115 Berlin Mitte

Vernissage: Sept. 14, 2018, 7 p.m.

Exhibition: Sept. 15 – 20, 2018 Mon – Thu: 4- 7 p.m. Sat / Sun: 4 – 8 p.m. and by appointment

Finissage: Sept. 20, 2018, 7 pm Featuring an illustrated lecture by Cosima Reif: The Vienna Collection New stamps by the Austrian Pure Chance Postal Service. www.zufallsproduktion.at

www.fatamorganagalerie.com  

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BIOPHILIA IV: ANIMALIA

Curated by Maggio Art Consultancy for KI Europe, New Fetter Place, London We are animal. Since the very birth of art itself, animals have been our greatest muse. From primitive rock paintings to the Nazca Lines in Peru, the Great Sphinx of Giza, the Chinese dragon, or the legendary rainbow serpent of indigenous Australia. Animals are omnipresent in art in every culture, and every era of human history. We give them archetypal symbolism through religion, mythology, folklore and tradition. In art we can mutate them into mythical creatures. Real or imagined, we project our own human characteristics onto them. We could all readily name an animal that we associate with loyalty, obedience, purity, wit, strength, power, avarice, laziness, virility, innocence, masculinity, femininity.

Throughout human civilisation, animals have played a fundamental role in our evolution from hunter-gatherers to agrarian societies and into the modern age. We use them for food, clothing, medicine, transport, labour, protection, entertainment and companionship. Our very existence is intertwined with the animal world around us, yet as animals ourselves, we tend to see ourselves apart from the kingdom to which we belong. ‘BIOPHILIA IV: ANIMALIA’ examines this human-animal dynamic and our own place within the animal kingdom. Each piece has been selected to for its intrigue, beauty, humour and playfulness – helping us to reconnect with the other animals with whom we share our planet.

Exhibition: 29 March  – 7 September 2018

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The Berlin Series – The Seven Deadly Sins

A heptalogy of photographs about Pride, Lust, Greed, Gluttony, Wrath, Envy and Sloth.

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The 10th Art Auction “Kunst fördert Kinder”.

I’m delighted to participate in this auction supporting children in need as one of the artists contributing an artwork. The art auction “Kunst fördert Kinder” is a project iniciated by the Round Table 26 Essen.

Sunday, 15 October 2017 Reception / Preview from 10 am. onwards Auction: 11 am

Location Zeche Carl, Wilhelm-Nieswandt-Allee 100, 45326 Essen

www.artessen.de

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Wiesbadener Fototage, Festival für Zeitgenössische Fotografie, 26.8.– 10.9.2017.

My works were selected for the 10th Wiesbadener Fototage and will be exhibited at the Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst (Ministry for Science and Art).

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Photo: Jule Kühn

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The Seven Deadly Sins | KH5 Gallery Zurich, 7 – 21.7. 2017

Julia Murakami‘s work series can be seen as a visual exploration into a lost and forgotten time. Seemingly frozen in a single moment either in stage-like settings or as a cosmos of odd creatures, the works showcase voyeuristic insights into a world anchored in the psyche...continue reading

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It's a pleasure to be part of this publication and in such an excellent company, kudos to the curators Robert Carrithers and Louis Armand!

City Primeval. New York, Berlin, Prague

CITY PRIMEVAL is a constellation of personal documentaries of place and time by key contemporary writers, poets, musicians, designers, filmmakers, photographers, artists, editors, performers from within the New York, Berlin and Prague underground scenes from the late 1970s to the present; from New York Post-Punk and No Wave, to the fall of the Berlin Wall and Reunification, to the Velvet Revolution and the Prague Renaissance...read more

Publication date: September 2017

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Otto Dix  – Der böse Blick 11.02. – 28.05.2017 (verlängert) K20 Grabbeplatz

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Contemporary Art Ruhr, Media Art Fair and Photo Special, May 12 – 14, 2017

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SHOTS IN THE LIGHT AND THE DARK:

Directors Lounge at Mitte Media Festival, 5 – 6 May, 2017

The lights are on and the gloves are off for this sensory assault of choicest knock-out punches from around the world of DL. Stories are told, implied or avoided in a rush of shorts spread over two venues and three programs. Everything you need to reactivate undernourished cinema-hungry brain cells will be served up – plenty of DL premiere gems in the bunch, plus other bright lights from a slew of bright minds.

We are pleased to participate in the Mitte Media Festival, a two-day, multi-venue celebration of video, film, publication and performance works through a spectrum of media starting on May 5th and ending on May 6th.

We will be presenting two screenings at Z-Bar, Bergstraße 2, Berlin at 6 pm and 8 pm, presented by André Werner and Kenton Turk. An Urban Research program curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr will take place at the Fata Morgana Gallery.

We will hit you, in the best way possible!

DL at Mitte Media | Program One (80 min), 5 May, 6 pm at Z-Bar: Stefan Adamski (PL) Induction 3 min 2007 Neil Needleman (US) Meeskeit 7 min 30s 2009 Jes Benstock (GB) Phosphenes 10 min 2002 Michael Betancourt (US) The Kodak Moment 2 min 2013 Xavi Sala (ES) La Parabólica 12 min 2007 Sasha Waters Freyer (US) An Incomplete History of Pornography, 1979, 8 min 2013 Jean-Gabriel Périot (FR) 21.04.02 9 min, DV, 2002 Faith Holland (US) RIP Geocities  2 min 31s  2011 André Werner (DE) The Custom of Eating Pictures 9 min 1997 Santiago Parres EZO (ES) Sinecdoquanon 7 min 29s  2011 Tokomburu / Zisis Kokkinidis and Ion Papaspyrou (GR) I Am Not Here Now 9 min 30 s 2013

DL at Mitte Media | Program Two (96 min), 5 May, 8 pm at Z-Bar: Alexei Dmitriev (RU) Dubus 4 min 9s, DV, 2005 Coleman Miller (US) Uso Justo 22 min 2005 Matthew Lancit (FR/CA) 16 Reasons Why I Hate Myself 03:32 Alexandru Ponoran (RO) Isac Inca Doarme 17 min 2012 Samuel Blain (GB) In Dreams 3 min 57s   2011 Bryan Konefsky (US) Miss Yummy Yummy 4 min 2012 Guy Maddin (CA) Sombra Dolorosa 7 min 35s Nina Lassila (FI) Günter und Mutti  3 min 17s 2011 (Distributor: AV-arkki) Chema Garcia Ibarra (ES) The Attack of The Robots From Nebula-5 6min 20s 2008 Javier Chillon (ES) Decapoda Shock  9 min 15s  2011 Luca Zuberbuehler (CH) Lothar 13 min  2013 Oliver Smith (GB) Bob by Oliver Smith 2 min 31s 2013

The Mitte Media Festival program

Mitte Media Festival partners include: FATA MORGANA, Leo Kuelbs Collection, coGalleries, Last Night in Berlin, Chased Magazine, Directors Lounge, Z-Bar, BRLO and more.

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pictured: “Uso Justo” by Coleman Miller; “Decapoda Shock” by Javier Chillon,  “16 Reasons Why I Hate Myself”  by Matthew Lancit

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I’m thrilled to be included in the latest edition of European Photography #100: Talking Photography – 100 Pictures that Tell a Story.

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Contemporary Art Ruhr, the innovative art fair October 28 – 30, 2016.

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I’m delighted to participate in this incredible project as one of the artists contributing a piece of artwork:

The 9th Essen art auction “Kunst fördert Kinder”.

On Sunday, 30 October 2016, art will be auctioned for children in need in Essen. After the great success of the “Kunst fördert Kinder” (“Art supports children”) art auctions in recent years, the Round Table Essen invites art lovers to their 9th edition. Read more

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I’m honored to announce a solo presentation of my works  at Contemporary Art Fair Zurich represented by KH5 Gallery.

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"Forgotten Memories of the Joyous Circus #5", 2016

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