JULIA CAROLIN KOTHE
|YULIA

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Julia Carolin Kothe works at the intersection of sculpture, installation, sound, writing and performance. In her sculptural installations and spatial interventions, she explores the connections, discrepancies and tensions of temporal and spatial settings. She is interested in systems of communication between the gestural and the verbal, the physical and the digital, the situational and the auto-generated, the human and non-human, including the relationships that materialise in space and in-between bodies.

Her practice evolves in non-linear acts based on research that incorporates elements of personal and collective memory, feminist theory and archival material, with the aim of revisiting and repositioning events that respond to particular conditions of spaces and the bodies within them. The processual nature of her practice breaks away from the notion of a singular, finished work and leads to site specific and contextual modes of display. Her work offers the spectator a spatial, atmospheric, physical experience that constantly recreates itself and casts an unforeseen light on particular environments.

Biography

Julia Carolin Kothe (*Gießen, D) is a visual artist based between Glasgow, UK and Frankfurt am Main, D. She completed two Master with distinction from the Glasgow School of Art and Kunsthochschule Mainz respectively. Julia is a studio holder at the Glasgow Sculpture Studios.

Recent works were shown at CCA: Glasgow (radiophrenia, 2022), Kunsthalle Mainz (2021), Rosa Stern (2022, Munich), Queens Street Studios (2021, Belfast), POKY – Institute of Contemporary Art (2020, Mainz), ATLETIKA Gallery (2020, Vilnus), mañana bold (2019, Offenbach/Main) and Frankfurter Kunstverein (2018), amongst others.

Yulia (the sonic and performative echo of Julia Carolin Kothe) is curious about collaborative modes of working which lead to radio episodes, sound pieces, texts, zines on various platforms.

2022/23

[upcoming] 2023

CCA Creative Lab Residency w/ Lisa Fabian

November 2022

Text and image contribution for 'as far as I remember' | Issue 3

18-20/11/2022

Bildende Künstler*innen versuchen Musik zu machen w/Billo Tonträger, cassette release + exhibition at zuostand, Berlin, D

11-12/11/2022

Super BOOKS 3 w/Space Rosa Stern at Haus der Kunst, Munich, D

12/10-06/11/2022

juicy things, spatial concept for the group exhibition and curation, Burg Galerie im Volkspark

w/ fempower, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, D

[March-April 2022]

Residency at Hospitalfield, Arbroath, UK

> Programme Mentoring Circle: Artist Sekai Machache (Edinburgh), curator Eoin Dara (Head of Exhibitions Dundee Contemporary Arts), writer/curator Tendai Mutambu (Bristol) and Cicely Farrer (Programme Manager Hospitalfield)

20/02/2022, 3-4pm (GMT)

Radiophrenia, A live-piece in sort of a sculptural setting at CCA: Glasgow

'M as in my, medium-density, machine, movements, make, more, moods, maybe, millions, meaning, much more, mm, to move on…’ live performance w/ Debbie Young feat. contributors with tactile and sonic passion:

MV Brown, Ella CB, Fionn Duffy, Lotte Meret Effinger, Lisa Fabian, Julia Gerke, Anne-Louise Hoffmann, Theresa Lawrenz, Aga Paulina Młyńczak, Sarah Reva Mohr, Susanne Schmitt, Katerina Sidorova, Mira Siering, Emilie Peyre Smith, Slaghammers, Catharina Szonn, Joëlle Pidoux, Kate Theodore , Debbie Young, Yulia