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Julia Benz

1985
Wittlich, Germany

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Current location

Heidelberg

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Works by Julia Benz

Julia Benz is a Berlin and Heidelberg based painter, trained at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and University of Arts Berlin

Studies

2015
Master Degree in Painting at Universität der Künste Berlin, Professor Burkhard Held

2012 – 2014
Painting at Universität der Künste Berlin, Professor Burkhard Held

2010 – 2012
Painting at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf


Exhibitions (Selection)

2021
"Two Solos", Affenfaust Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
"Slow Dance", Mirus Gallery, San Francisco, USA (online)
"Pop up", Galerie Gerald Hartinger, Wörthersee, Austria (G)
"For Free", Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany (G)
"art-hoc", Düsseldorf art Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany (G)
"Forever21", digital exhibition with Jim Avignon, 44 Flavors, organized by Jim Avignon, Worldwide (G)

2020
"Drap’Art’20", Fousion Gallery in Barcelona, Spain (G)
"Fousion Finest", Fousion Gallery in Barcelona, Spain (G)
"In Between Space, Time and a Pattern of Chaos", Fousion Gallery in Barcelona, Spain (G)
"Tomorrow never knows", with Jim Avignon, Galerie Köppe Contemporary in Berlin, Germany (G)

2019
“Vienna Art Week”, Satellite Installation Gerald Hartinger Fine Arts, Wien
“Festival Concreto”, Mural University of Fortaleza, Fortaleza (BRA)
“Out of Mind. Just in Time.”, Gerald Hartinger Fine Arts, Wien
“Aporias”, Mirus Gallery, San Francisco (G)
Urvanity Art Fair, Fousion Gallery, Madrid (G)
“Catharsis”, Galerie Gerken, Berlin (S)

2018
“ProAbstract”, Swinton Gallery, Madrid (G)
“Helsinki Urban Art”, Murals, Pasila, Goethe-Institut Finnland, Helsinki
“Tao Hua Tan Spring Residency”, Artist Painting Residency Shanghai, Xuancheng (China)
“Best of Galerie Gerken”, Galerie Gerken, Berlin (G)

2017
Natural Space”, Galerie Gerken, Berlin (G)
“Roule Petit Ougandais”, Kolly Gallery, Zurich (G)
„Not my Circus, Not my Monkeys“, Fousion Gallery, Barcelona (S)
“Nice to meet you too”, Die Kunstagentin, Köln (G)
“In a while Crocodile”, Plastic Murs, Valencia (S)
“What the Weekend is Gallery”, The Art Union, Alte Münze, Berlin (G)

2016
“Jim Avignon – Rendevouz der Freunde”, Schacher – Raum für Kunst, Stuttgart (G)
“Don´t hug me. I´m scared.”, Die Kunstagentin Gallery, Köln (S)
“What the Weekend is Gallery”, The Art Union, Urban Spree Gallery, Berlin (G)

2015
“Yalla! Go paint Khartoum!”, Goethe Institut Sudan, Khartoum
Art.Fair Köln, Die Kunstagentin Gallery, Köln
“Lost in Trainstation”, Heliumcowboy Artspace, Hamburg (S)
“Art Copenhagen”— Art Fair, Heliumcowboy Artspace, Kopenhagen
“Yalla” Mural for WestART, WDR, Düsseldorf
“Scope Art Basel”, Art fair, Heliumcowboy Artspace, Basel
“Das eigene Ich”, Affenfaust Gallery, Hamburg (G)
“WeLoveYouganda” – Mural at National Theater Kampala, Kampala (Uganda)

2014
“Window Seat”, Die Kunstagentin Gallery, Köln (S)
“Down by Law”, Eichblatt Gallery, Berlin (S)
“Knotenpunkt 2014”, Affenfaust Gallery, Hamburg (G)
“Project M/4”, Urban Nation, Berlin (G)

2013
“Everything Amazing – Nobody Happy”, Urban Spree Gallery, Berlin (S)
“The Circle Show”, Urban Spree Gallery, Berlin (G)
“Millerntor Gallery #3”, St. Pauli Stadion, Hamburg (G)
“Spring Broken”, Die Kunstagentin Gallery, Köln (S)

2012
“Give it a second – It´s going to Space”, Die Kunstagentin Gallery, Köln (G)


PROJECTS

2020
Julia Benz meets Canada Goose, site-specific Installation in Berlin, Germany
Amazon Mural, Amazon Office in Munich, Germany
Antonymdimension, Installation und private commission in Vienna, Austria
Void Projects, Wandmalerei Home Mural Fest in Berlin, Germany
init – Mural, private Commission für init AG in Berlin, Germany
Antonymdimension I, site-specific Installation for c/o Galerie in Berlin, Germany
Cyan Mural, Paypal Office in Dreilinden in Berlin, Germany

2019
Satellite, performative site-specific Installation for Vienna Art Week,
Azur Mural, Festival Concreto with Goethe-Institut Brazil in Fortaleza, Brazil
Malachite Mural, Wandmalerei for Metropolink Festival in Heidelberg, Germany

2018
Street Project, painting the Berlin Wall for the german embassy in Thailand, on behalf of Goethe-Institut Thailand in Bangkok, Thailand
FB Air Program Mural, Wandmalerei für das Facebook Office in Berlin
Sininen Mural, for Goethe-Institut Finnland in Helsinki, Finnland
Reflection Mural, Plastic Murs Gallery in Valencia, Spanien

2015
Yalla! – Go Paint Khartoum, Workshop for Urban Arts on behalf of Goethe-Institut Sudan in Khartum, Sudan
Yalla Mural, Wandmalerei für WDR West Art Television in Düsseldorf, Germany
We love Youganda, Nationaltheater Kampala for Viva con Agua in Kampala, Uganda

RESIDENCIES

Mai – Jun 2018 Tao Hua Tan Artist Residency (1 Month) in Xuancheng and Shanghai, China

AWARDS

July 2009 Award winner of the European AssociationVisual artist from the Eifel and Ardennes e.V.