YULIA CAROLIN KOTHE
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Yulia 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
Yulia 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.
Recent works have been shown at Neuer Kunstverein Mittelrhein (2023, Neuwied), French Street (2023, Glasgow), Rosa Stern (2022, Munich), Kunsthalle Mainz (2021), Queens Street Studios (2021, Belfast), POKY - Institute of Contemporary Art (2020, Mainz), ATLETIKA Gallery (2020, Vilnius), mañana bold (2019, Offenbach/Main) and Frankfurter Kunstverein (2018), among others.
She has participated in several residencies, including the Creative Lab Residency (Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, 2023), the Glenkeen Garden Residency of the Crespo Foundation (Frankfurt am Main and West Cork/Ireland, 2023), the Hospitalfield Graduate Programme (Arbroath, 2021/22) and is a fellow of the Stiftung Kunstfonds (working grant 2022/23). She is currently a committee member of Market Gallery (Glasgow, UK), co-founder of the Kunstverein ruelle e.V. (Mainz, DE), the Orga Orga collective (Mainz, DE) and the PUTPUT collective (projects in public space). Here she has been working as a curator and art facilitator for exhibitions, symposia, art and performance festivals since 2015.
Yulia is curious about collaborative ways of working that lead to radio episodes, sound works, texts and publications on both physical and digital platforms. Just reach out if you're interested in collaborating!
2025
Current collaborations include a sound project w/ Simon Weins, a public art project w/ Neuer Kunstverein Mittelrhein (Neuwied), ASAŞ and the University of Applied Science in Koblenz (Architecture), a publication project w/ Musho Fernandez with texts by Caitlin Merrett King, Adrian Ruth Williams, Friederike Nastold, Ragini Chawla and a website project w/ Rush Johnstone. Keep your eyes peeled!
[current]
15/06/2025 - 13/07/2025
TRANSITIONS
w/ Yulia C. Kothe, Swinda Oelke, Tatjana Stürmer
Opening: 14/06/2025 , from 18:00pm
Curated by Kim-André Schulz
12/04/2025, 14:00--19:00pm
BAGAASCH
w/Siri Black, Max Brück, Gunilla Josephson, Yulia Carolin Kothe, Theresa Lawrenz, Scott J. Leeming, Juliane Mahler, Isamu Marsden, Helli Müller, Lillian Ross-Millard, /POKY (Julia Gerke & Alina Röbke)
Steinwerkstatt RUPP, 35644, DE
Genius Jane (live) at 17:00pm
Curated by Yulia C. Kothe
17/04/2025 - 20/04/2025
Radiophrenia
Poltergeist or some scene else
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 7:30—8:00 pm (BST) | 20:30—21:00 (CET)
How to navigate a bog?
w/ Katerina Sidorova and Max Brück
Tuesday, 15 April 2025
9:00—09:40 am (BST) | 10:00—10:40 (CET)
10/04/2025, 17:00--18:30pm
'Glitches and Ghosts' an artist talk by Yulia C Kothe
Disruption in Creativity
Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg | Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm | LEONARDO – Zentrum für Kreativität und Innovation
22/01/2025, 6pm
'Making Out' an artist talk by Yulia C Kothe
Artist Talk as part of the series “Lectures of the IfK”
Institut für Kunstpädagogik | Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Karl-Glöckner-Str. 21 H, 35394 Gießen
Room 08c (House H, Phil II)
26/01/2025, 12-3pm
Bread and butter event with Yulia C Kothe, Katerina Sidorova, Max Brück and bakers Ida & Emma Wetekam and DJ-Set by Andy Norstrom
Within the installation 'How to navigate a bog?' in the group exhibition
The Glenkeen Variations, New Crespo House, Frankfurt am Main, DE
10/10/2024 - 26/01/2025
The Glenkeen Variations, New Crespo House, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Live-DJ-Set by Yulia on the 10th October 24 from 7:30pm
2024
07/11/2024 - 22/12/2024
Today, I am fiction in front of a construction site
Kunstverein Bellevue-Saal, Wiesbaden, DE
Opening: 07/11/2024, from 7pm
Introduction by Adrian Ruth Williams
Live-set with cassettes by FM Aether
07/12/2024, from 5pm
Book release 'Work' with Yulia C Kothe
Live-set by Laila Quist
July--October 2024
Work scholarship, Kunstverein Bellevue-Saal, Wiesbaden, DE
17/08/2024, from 5pm
Die Unikale, Magma Maria & Die Diele, Offenbach am Main, DE/Zürich, CH
03/08/2024, 7pm - 8pm
Live-Set, 404 Spacebar, Frankfurt am Main, DE
15/06/2024, 7pm - 8pm
Live-Set with cassettes, Out of Focus, Kunstverein Friedberg, Friedberg, DE
[upcoming]
Reader No 6, Lothringer Halle 13, Munich, DE
09/05/2024
Live at 'EARLY EXIT' together w/UNDINE, Glasgow, UK
10-17/03/2024
Residency at Laines Organic Farm, Cuckfield, UK
23/02/2024
Live at EXIT Glasgow, UK
06/02/2024, 7pm -- 9pm
Artist Talk Vol. 5 'How to navigate a bog?'
together w/ Katerina Sidorova and Max Brück
Crespo Foundation, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2023 -- 2024
Committee member at Market Gallery (Artist-run Initiative), Glasgow, UK
2023
03/11/2023, 6pm -- 9pm
Listening Party w/ Hannan Jones, Sgàire Wood, Lydia Davies and Yulia Carolin Kothe at David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, UK
14/10/2023, 18:00pm – 21:00pm
15/10/2023, 18:00pm – 21:00pm
On Listening w/Radio 80000 ‘Fewer Ears than Sounds’,
Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich, DE
08/10/23, 11:00am
Poltergeist or some scene else, commissioned by David Dale Gallery
Summer broadcast live on Clyde Built Radio
19/09/23
Release of 'The Blue Hour' | cassette and publication
by Somewhere Press, Glasgow, UK
Text contribution for the accompanying publication
30/08/23, 9pm – 10pm &
01/09/23, 9pm – 10pm
‚Drifting through the haze, one might decide to focus on the garden’s shed’, 56-minute radiophonic piece
listen online or on 87.9fm (Glasgow)
31/08 -- 17/09/2023
Ja, warum nicht? Ja? Warum nicht?
Q18 - Quatier am Hafen, Cologne, DE
17/05 -- 21/07/2023
sofort so fort (group show)
Neuer Kunstverein Mittelrhein, Neuwied, DE
28/04/2023
A bog, a sickle and a pot, 12pm
Artist Talk w/ Katerina Sidorova and Max Brück
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, IRL
March -- June 2023
Glenkeen Garden Residency, Crespo Foundation Frankfurt a. M., DE
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w/ Katerina Sidorova and Max Brück
24-25/02/2023
A group show at French Street, Glasgow, UK
January/February 2023
w/ Lisa Fabian
2022
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, DE
11-12/11/2022
Super BOOKS 3 w/Space Rosa Stern at Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
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
11/12/2021-30/01/2022
'Away from Keyboard' curated by PASSE-AVANT at Rosa Stern, Munich, DE
[listen back] 20/01/2022, 6-7pm (CET)
Akustische Bänderdehnung | FM Aether w/Yulia
Tune in on dublab radio
2021
Kunsthalle Mainz
02/09—19/09/21
QSS Belfast
02/09—30/09/21
Schloss Balmoral fellowship from Rhineland-Palantine | Residency at Schloss Wiepersdorf
June-September 2021
'AND WHEN THEY TALK
THEY JUST MAKE SOUNDS THAT MORE OR LESS
SYNCH UP'
at POKY Institute for Contemporary Art.
14/12 — 20/21/20
04/01 — 10/01/21
AN EXHIBITION IN 2 ACTS:
/ INSTALLATION @ POKY
/ SOUND (AVAILABLE ONLINE: 04/01/2021)
Contributions featured in:
Matratze-Magazin, Stuttgart, DE and Rupert Journal, Vilnius, LT
— 2021
2020
Photo reportage from the exhibition 'The Saturn Youth Group Archive' at Atletika gallery, Vilnius.
— August 2020
Radio show at Palanga Street Radio, Vilnius.
— August 2020
Performance for KATERINA SIDOROVA: 'AS A PILE OF ASH' at 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow.
— November 2020
Online publication — AFAIR - as far as I remember — ISSUE 1 by DER TYP.
— Concept & Publishing: Catharina Szonn & Sarah Reva Mohr
2019
LOOKING FORWARD TO THE CRUISE at mañana bold, Offenbach am Main.
Group show with: Harry Dodge & Stanya Kahn, Michael Franz, Dominik Keggenhoff.
— May 2019
Chains — zine launch at CCA Glasgow — in collaboration with Julia Gerke. Poster by Ran Altamirano.
— Autumn 2019
Co-founder of the space ruelle.
