Julia Gerke
artist based in Leipzig (DE)
Part of /POKY
Co-Founder
POKY — Institute of Contemporary Art
2021
units > Are we not plunging continually? (nyg|west, Leipzig)
A small door shifts slightly towards its frame > Are we not plunging continually? (nyg|west / Circuits & Currents, Leipzig / Athens)
Prologue (text) > published in Matratze Magazin
artists must be spiders & POKY goes world w/ Alina Röbke > Wir leben auf einem Stern (Kunsthalle Mainz) > download
celestial bodies > museumfuernaturkun.de (online exhibition)
2020
playful phonetics (spoken word performance), concept w/ Alicia Franzke > Anybody out there? 100 Jahre Radio in Deutschland (D21, Leipzig)
fragments of an institute w/ Alina Röbke > Wir leben auf einem Stern /Intro/ (Kunsthalle Mainz)
The gulf between (text) > AFAIR – as far as I remember (online publication by Catharina Szonn & Sarah Reva Mohr) > download
solitary letters]. > FLUX4ART (Sayner Hütte, Sayn)
a touch of time > FLUX4ART (Sayner Hütte, Sayn)
I couldn't quite tell if it was me hunting the time or the time hunting me > POKY — Institute of Contemporary Art, Mainz
2019
chains (zine) w/ Julia Carolin Kothe > published in Mainz/Glasgow (zine launch > CCA Glasgow)
PUT PUT PUT (Art and performance festival) w/ PutPutPut-Kollektiv > public space > Jockel-Fuchs-Platz, Mainz
a touch of time > Schleuse ausgelagert (Kunst-und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim)
2018
Die Einzelnen w/ Julia Carolin Kothe, Joelle Pidoux, Maira Wiener > Festival der jungen Talente (Frankfurter Kunstverein)
dass ich noch hier bin und nicht im Verschwinden begriffen.
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Julia Gerke lives and works in Leipzig. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Kunsthochschule Mainz. Currently, she studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig. Her sculptural installations often include text, objects and sound. She explores how abstract concepts such as memory or time and internal states are reflected in architectural spaces and elements.
In collaboration with artists, she creates different platforms such as zines, art festivals and exhibitions. Since 2019 she is co-founder of POKY – Institute of Contemporary Art, Mainz.
©2021, Julia Gerke, all rights reserved > imprint
Julia Gerke
artist based in Leipzig (DE)
Part of /POKY
Co-Founder
POKY — Institute of Contemporary Art
2021
units > Are we not plunging continually? (nyg|west, Leipzig)
A small door shifts slightly towards its frame > Are we not plunging continually? (nyg|west / Circuits & Currents, Leipzig / Athens)
Prologue (text) > published in Matratze Magazin
artists must be spiders & POKY goes world w/ Alina Röbke > Wir leben auf einem Stern (Kunsthalle Mainz) > download
celestial bodies > museumfuernaturkun.de (online exhibition)
2020
playful phonetics (spoken word performance), concept w/ Alicia Franzke > Anybody out there? 100 Jahre Radio in Deutschland (D21, Leipzig)
fragments of an institute w/ Alina Röbke > Wir leben auf einem Stern /Intro/ (Kunsthalle Mainz)
The gulf between (text) > AFAIR – as far as I remember (online publication by Catharina Szonn & Sarah Reva Mohr) > download
solitary letters]. > FLUX4ART (Sayner Hütte, Sayn)
a touch of time > FLUX4ART (Sayner Hütte, Sayn)
I couldn't quite tell if it was me hunting the time or the time hunting me > POKY — Institute of Contemporary Art, Mainz
2019
chains (zine) w/ Julia Carolin Kothe > published in Mainz/Glasgow (zine launch > CCA Glasgow)
PUT PUT PUT (Art and performance festival) w/ PutPutPut-Kollektiv > public space > Jockel-Fuchs-Platz, Mainz
a touch of time > Schleuse ausgelagert (Kunst-und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim)
2018
Die Einzelnen w/ Julia Carolin Kothe, Joelle Pidoux, Maira Wiener > Festival der jungen Talente (Frankfurter Kunstverein)
dass ich noch hier bin und nicht im Verschwinden begriffen.
/
info
Julia Gerke lives and works in Leipzig. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Kunsthochschule Mainz. Currently, she studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig. Her sculptural installations often include text, objects and sound. She explores how abstract concepts such as memory or time and internal states are reflected in architectural spaces and elements.
In collaboration with artists, she creates different platforms such as zines, art festivals and exhibitions. Since 2019 she is co-founder of POKY – Institute of Contemporary Art, Mainz.
©2021, Julia Gerke, all rights reserved > imprint
