Julian Charrière

Julian Charrière (born 1987) is a conceptual artist currently living and working in Berlin, Germany.[1] He utilizes a range of artistic approaches including photography, performance, sculpture, and video to address concepts relating to time and society's relationship to the natural world.[2]

Julian Charrière
Julian Charriere (2014)
Born1987
Morges, Switzerland
NationalitySwiss-French
EducationÉcole cantonale d’art du Valais, Valais, Switzerland Berlin University of Arts, Berlin, Germany
Websitejulian-charriere.net

Early life and education

Charrière was born in Morges, Switzerland to a Swiss father and French mother. He studied art at the École cantonale d’art du Valais in Switzerland before moving to Berlin to finish his degree. In 2013 he graduated from Olafur Eliasson’s Institute of Spatial Experiments in conjunction with the Berlin University of Arts.[3]

Career

Charrière’s research-driven practice fuses together art, science, and anthropology, highlighting the tensions resulting from our modern world. Inspired by land artists such as Robert Smithson as well as writers like author J.G. Ballard and philosopher Timothy Morton, his work contributes to a discussion of social and environmental implications of the advancements which have pushed society forward.[4] These ideas link Charrière to the 19th century Romantic era during which man’s place within the world was reexamined as a response to the industrial revolution and humanist philosophy.[5] Throughout his body of work Charrière experiments with nonconventional materials and methods for the symbolic significance that they carry. Time is an often used material as Charrière produces artworks intended to create and exist within their own timeline while commenting on their place within the broader human timescale.[6]

Interested in the concept of fossils as physical markers of time and more specifically what artifacts will be left behind to shape future generations’ interpretations of his era, Charrière has crafted a “geo-archaeology of the future.”[7] Geological specimens being the only form of documentation of Earth’s early eons, the artist reinterpreted this idea to create the series Metamorphism wherein electronic waste is molten with artificial lava and transformed into natural-looking rocks, essentially returning the technological devices to the raw materials from which they are made.[8] This project is one of several sculptural series by Charrière using natural and manmade materials which provides a physical commentary on the increasingly digitalized world.

Much of his work has been the result of various expeditions around the world, focusing on locations impacted by humanity.[9] Such locations visited by Charrière include the Semipalatinsk Test Site, a former USSR nuclear test site, and its American equivalent, the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Notably from these two voyages came a series of photography documenting the desolate remnants of the sites developed from analogue film exposed to nuclear materials, giving the invisible force of radioactivity a visible presence within the images.[10][11]

Charrière has been the recipient of several prestigious awards. He was awarded the Kiefer Hablitzel Award during the Swiss Art Awards in both 2013 and 2015. In 2016 Charrière received the Kaiserring Stipendium für junge Kunst which resulted in a solo exhibition at the Mönchehaus Museum Goslar in Germany.[12]

In addition to working as a solo artist, Charrière has collaborated with other artists as well as a member of the Berlin-based artist collective, Das Numen. The collective has shown across Europe and been the recipient of numerous awards.[13] In 2012, Charrière collaborated with the artist Julius von Bismarck on the site-specific performance piece Some Pigeons Are More Equal Than Others for the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale.[14] The two have continued to work together, producing several exhibitions in tandem with one another.

The artist became the subject of international news in March 2017 when Berlin police were called to his studio after the testing of his new piece commenting on peaceful scientific development and the dangers of climate change entitled The Purchase of the South Pole. The three-meter long air cannon was originally meant to shoot coconuts from the Bikini Atoll as a part of the first Antarctic Biennale. Because of its seizure the artwork never made it to Antarctica and currently remains in the custody of the German authorities.[15]

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • Horizons, DITTRICH&SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin, Germany, 2011
  • On The Sidewalk, I Have Forgotten The Dinosauria DITTRICH&SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin, Germany, 2013
  • We are all Astronauts, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2014
  • Clockwork, (in collaboration with Julius von Bismark) Oben, Vienna, Austria, 2014
  • Die Welt ist mittelgross, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany, 2014
  • Future Fossil Spaces, Musée cantonal des Beaux-arts de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2014
  • Somewhere, Rudolph-Scharpf-Galerie, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany, 2014
  • Polygon, Galerie Bugada & Cargnel, Paris, France, 2015
  • Freeze, Memory, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, 2016
  • Into the Hollow, DITTRICH&SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin, Germany, 2016
  • For They That Sow the Wind, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, England, 2016
  • Julian Charrière, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Goslar, Germany, 2016
  • First Light, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland, 2016
  • Pitch Drop, Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2016
  • Desert Now, (in collaboration with Julius von Bismarck and Felix Kiessling) Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 2016
  • Objects In Mirror Might Be Closer Than They Appear, (in collaboration with Julius von Bismarck) Villa Bernasconi, Grand-Lancy, Switzerland, 2016
  • Siempre cuenta cuántos cuentos cuentas, Despacio, San José, Costa Rica, 2016

Group exhibitions

  • Berlin 2000 - Playing among the Ruins, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2011
  • Über Lebens Kunst, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, 2011
  • Without Destination, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2011
  • Common Ground, 13th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, 2012
  • Des Présents Inachevés, Les Modules du Palais de Tokyo at 12th Art Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France, 2013
  • move, – align – avid / Vom Schwarm als Prinzip and Phäenomen, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany, 2013
  • Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Fort Kochi, Kerala, India, 2014
  • Festival of Future Nows, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany, 2014
  • One Place Next to Another, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, 2014
  • The Future of Memory, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2015
  • Rare Earth, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria, 2015
  • The Forces Behind The Forms, Galerie Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria, 2015
  • The Forces Behind The Forms, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland, 2016
  • The Forces Behind The Forms, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Museen Haus Lange und Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany, 2016
  • Nuit blanche, Villa Médicis, Rome, Italy, 2016
  • Zeitgeist - Art Da Nova Berlim, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2016
  • +ultra. gestaltung schafft wissen, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, 2016
  • Deep Inside, 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia, 2016
  • Hybrid Modus. Hybrid Modus New positions in bio-, living- and digital sculpture, Skulptur Bredelar 2016, Bredelar, Netherlands, 2016
  • The End of the World, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy, 2016
  • Interractions n°4, Les Abattoirs, FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France, 2016
  • No One Belongs Here More Than You, Despacio, San José, Costa Rica, 2016
  • The Antarctic Biennale, Antarctica, 2017
  • Viva Arte Viva, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2017
  • Le Rêve des formes, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2017
  • Produktion. Made in Germany Drei, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany, 2017
  • Tidalectics, TBA21-Augarten, Vienna, Austria, 2017
  • De Nature en Sculpture, Villa Datris, Foundation pour la sculpture contemporaine, L’Isle sur la Sorgue, France, 2017
  • Biotopia, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany, 2017[16]
  • Entangle / Physics and the Artistic Imagination,[17] Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Sweden, 2018-2019

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  11. Crum, Maddie. "Toxic Chemicals From A Nuke Site Ate Through These Haunting Photos". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
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