Max Blaise:
A DARK GREY MONOCHROME PALETTE.
With a dark grey, monochrome colour palette of charcoal, graphite, lacquer, chalk-like painting materials as well as black and metallic pigments, Julia Emslander extracts personal experiences into painting.The painting and its elements become an organic being that discharges manifold associations, as they are inherent in all life. They form a net that is based on the most elementary and deepest experiences
of consciousness.
Through the absence of colourfulness and the reduction of compositional elements, Emslander’s works offer a counter-position to information excess and content overload. Her process-oriented art is a sensual, emotional and aesthetic offering that comes alive in the confrontation between the work and the person viewing it in an environment and in the interplay between the two - a phenomenological approach that sharpens perception and mindfulness and enables multiple perspectives. Emslander’s
works invite us to pause and allow an emancipation of our own thoughts and emotions. The flatness resulting from this minimalist approach becomes a space that breathes and pulses. The
colour becomes the material and so Emslander explores how the use of different surface and material properties opens up a playful experience of changing light conditions between reflection and absorption.
Gradually, Emslander builds up a pictorial space consisting of surfaces and lines in a typographic-architectural order and non-perspectival depth. She studies and experiments with different pigments, materials and techniques, building up surfaces by applying, removing and overlaying thin layers of paint. This long process of preparation allows for improvisation and intuition at the moment of creation. Her sanded, scratched and partly destroyed surfaces take on the role of the image. In this way, Emslander affects the “skin” of the painting’s body with tools such as knives or chains, even down to her bare fingernails. The relationship of power and strength between the image and the artist and thus the fragility and strength of the female body are negotiated. This physical exhaustion, which constitutes the works, also signals a physiological level of experience
to the viewer. The balance of the discrepancy between aesthetics, surface and violence is constantly shifting.
“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.
2022

exhibitions
vita
Julia Emslander
1989 born in Germany
upcoming
november 22
autumm 22
mai 22
salondergegenwart, Hamburg
Debütantenausstellung, Munich
"Tares", solo show, AkademieGalerie, Munich
past
solo
2020
2017
"Arrangements 1”, T156, München
"Aprés Sun”, Sommersalon, München
2015 – 2022
2018
2010 – 2015
Diploma of Fine Arts
Academy of fine arts, Munich
at Prof. Gregor Hildebrandt (2019 – 2022)
at Prof. Anke Doberauer (2015 – 2019)
ESDAMM
École supérieure d’art et de design Marseille-Méditerranée
Bachelor of Arts
University of applied science, Munich
scholarships
2022
2021
2018
2017/18
Price of Erwin und Gisela Steiner foundation
Erasmus+ graduation scholarship
Funding scholarship by the state of Bavaria
Nomination for the federal award for art students
Erasmus scholarship
Catalog promotion by Akademieverein München
group (selected)
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
Graduation show @ Prof. Gregor Hildebrandt, AdBK, Munich
"Steine auf der Landebahn“, Kunsthalle Padova, Munich
"Blick zurück nach vorne”, Galerie Klüser, Munich
"Translating Realities”, Lost Weekend Galerie, Munich
"Ille #10”, Ille Galerie, Munich
"Pandemic Edition”, Mucca, Munich
"Drawing Restrictions”, Rosa Stern, Munich
"Der River”, Alte Spinnerei, Leipzig
"MDCXIX ”, Jahresausstellung AdBK, Munich
"Super Books”, Haus der Kunst, Munich
"female", kunst block balve, Munich
"Anti Auktion", AdBK, Munich
"space is the place”, Atelier Hyph, Marseille, FR
"HLM”, hors les murs, Marseille, FR
"Babel 2", khg, Munich
"Babel 1", khg, Munich
"Seestück”, Alte Rathaus Galerie, Prien am Chiemsee
"Kopfkino”, Wasserturm, Dachau
"Freisingsing", Modern Studio, ancient prison, Freising
"Leinen los", Jahresausstellung AdBK, Munich
"ADC", Grünsparn, Hamburg
"Einblick", Roter Würfel, Munich
"Uamo", Einstein Kultur, Munich
"Horst galaxy", Kafe Kult, Munich
"tausend Bilder", Farbenladen, Munich
"Experimenta", Tallinn, Estonia
"Close up", C/O Berlin, Berlin
"Fassade", Puerto Giesing, Munich