Julia Rhizoma (*1.10.1980, Mutlangen, Germany), lives and works in Parabita, Puglia / ITALY

I studied Photography at the Private Academy for Photodesign in Munich and have been working as an autodidact Free Visual Artist since 2008.

My work develops from questioning the human being in a world in which permanent overflow of information and perceived lack of time seem to be fractal ever-increasing and intertwined with one another.

Complex installations and performative rituals that adapt to the respective space and time-situations are created by handwritten documents, Visual poetry and ink drawings, vibration notations, books and found material.

World views that resemble old and new knowledge coalesce into synergistic and rhizomatic exhibition formats.

My art has been shown nationally and internationally at exhibitions and has been involved in several artistic projects since 2010 including The Center for Book Arts, New York (2010), Art Chicago (2014), Kunsthalle zu Kiel (2014), Kulturhaus Niederanven in Luxembourg (2015), The Ionion Center for the Arts and Cultures on Kefalonia, Greece (2016+2017), the Soloshow „Rhizoma : Base-Work“ at Gmünder Kunstverein.

Right now I am collaborating in Chile, Germany and Italy with Laika Rei on our longterm Project NaDaN.

Extracts of it were shown as part of the exhibition „Into the Wild“ at Hohenloher Kunstverein at Langenburg and Kasa Amarilla, Santiago de Chile, Chile.

In 2018 I founded RHIZOMA. LAB for CHANGE. SPACE for TIME to give future engaging impulses for creation of meaning through workshops and creative rituals which is now evolving into TOUCHPOINT, a space-time-body-senses-lab.

In 2016 I channeled my °Water°World°Worth°Whirl° Project in a bathtub meditation and won the SEA’S ART Prize which presented me a 3-month scholarship and solo exhibition at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture on the Greek island of Kefalonia. In correspondence with the sea, I experienced insights into nature and other dimensions that still effect me today.

In 2013, the exhibition project “For whatever is repugnant to the laws of the intellect and the reason is of course impossible.” that was initiated by me and Chris Bierl realized in cooperation with and at the Kunsthaus meinblau e.V. was funded by the Kulturreferat Pankow, Berlin, the Dutch embassy and HAU Theatre Berlin. The project was well received and discussed in Kunstforum International (volume 224).