Art Club #28 Julius Von Bismarck

19.00
Curated by PierPaolo Pancotto

The work of Julius von Bismarck (b. Breisach am Rhein, 1983; lives and works in Berlin) links the visual arts with other fields of research, such as the physical and chemical sciences, the exploration of perceptual or representational phenomena of reality, and the analysis of historical and social events. His work takes a variety of forms: video, sculpture, photography, installation and performance. For his first solo exhibition in Italy, he presents three videos at Villa Medici, all centered on the theme of nature, the leitmotif of his creative career. One tragic event caused by human beings, another by nature, are at the center respectively of Objects in the Mirror Might Be Closer Than They Appear (2016, directed with Julian Charrière) and Irma to Come in Earnest (2017). The former focuses on the effects of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the surprising rebirth of an ecosystem in an area heavily contaminated by it (visible, in the video, through images reflected on the eye of a deer); the latter looks at Hurricane Irma and the devastating consequences of its passage in 2017. Tiere sind Engel mit Fell (2018) presents animals suspended in space, captured in an imaginary, poetic flight, as if they were “angels with fur”.

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Solo exhibitions (selection): Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019); Kunstpalais Erlangen (2018, with Julian Charrière); Villa Bernasconi, Grand-Lancy, Geneva (2016, with Julian Charrière); Kunstverein Göttingen (2015); Kunstverein Arnsberg (2014); 5 Minute Museum, Eindhoven (2011). Group exhibitions (selection): Elementarteile, Sprengel Museum Hannover (2019); Entangle | Physics and the Artistic Imagination, Bildmuseet, Umea (2018); Power to the People, Schirm Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2018); Entfesselte Natur, Hamburger Kunsthalle (2018); Antarctic Pavilion, Venice (2017); Nach der natur, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg (2017); Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße, Kunsthalle, Bremen (2016); +ultra., Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2016) ; Welcome to the Jungle, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2015) ; The Future of Memory, Kunsthalle Wien (2015) ; Fire and Forget. On Violence KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2015); Festival of Future Nows, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2014); Le dictateur, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013).