BIOGRAPHIE
Née en 1985 à Amsterdam
Vit entre Amsterdam et Paris
Julia Geerlings est commissaire d’exposition indépendante et auteure. Elle est diplômée d’Histoire de l’art de la Vrije Universiteit d’Amsterdam et de la Freie Universität de Berlin. Geerlings écrit régulièrement pour des magazines d’art et publications. Les propositions curatoriales de Geerlings prennent place dans des architectures ou environnements inhabituels, comme une église médiévale (Oude Kerk Amsterdam), une église brutaliste (Thomaskerk), une « canal house » (maison de bord de canal à l’architecture typique d’Amsterdam) ou encore une forteresse bunker (Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen). Sa pratique curatoriale est influencée par les enjeux du ‘context responsive curating’, dans lequel la prise en compte des lieux et contextes (social, économique, politique) est déterminante dans l’écriture des projets. Basée à Paris et Amsterdam, elle est actuellement commissaire d’un programme vidéo au Cyclop, enseignante à l’école des beaux-arts d’Utrecht, conseiller pour Amsterdam Fund for the Arts et membre du comité de recherche et développement des subventions d’artistes au CBK Rotterdam.
Formation :
2010 – 2012
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
MA Art History Specialization : Art, Market and Connoisseurship.
2010
Freie Universität Berlin
Art History Erasmus exchange program
2006 - 2010
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
BA Art History : Specialization : modern and contemporary art.
Expositions / Curator (sélection) :
2013 - 2016
Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL
*Curator performance program ‘Nachtelijke dwalingen’ (Nocturnal wanderings) in collaboration with Jacqueline Grandjean, Nanda Janssen, Fleur van Muiswinkel & Rieke Vos
with Jasper Coppes & Stijn Verhoeff (2013), Maria Pask (2014), Roderick Hietbrink (2014), Alberto de Michele (2014), Ruchama Noorda (2014), Melanie Bonajo (2015), David Helbich (2016), Lotte Geeven & Yeb Wiersma (2016), Rory Pilgrim (2016) and Zhana Ivanova & Uta Eisenreich (2016)
2016
ISCP, New York City, USA
*‘Mystic variété’ with Melanie Bonajo, Momu & No es and Shana Moulton (Open Studios, 4 and 5 November 2016)
2016
Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, NL
*‘Bedazzle’ with Brian McKenna & Anika Schwarzlose, Metahaven, Simone C. Niquille, Florian & Michael Quistrebert, Nora Turato and Dan Walwin (3 July - 3 September 2016) + performance by Nora Turato and artist talk by Brian McKenna & Anika Schwarzlose
*‘The Prophecy of Bees’ with Sema Bekirovic, Joseph Beuys, Sara Bjarland, Melanie Bonajo, Laura Gozlan, Maartje Korstanje, Katja Novitskova and Janis Rafa (3 April - 19 June 2016) + performance by Laura Gozlan & Gunnar Gunnsteinsson and artist talk by Louwrien Wijers
2016
HKU Hogeschool voor de kunsten, Utrecht, NL
*‘Become a Wanderer’ graduation exhibition Graphic Design (30 June 2016 - 3 July 2016)
2015
De Drie Heuvelen, Amsterdam, NL
*’Ghost Dwellings’ with Alexis Blake & Yeb Wiersma, Elodie Hiryczuk & Sjoerd van Oevelen and Johannes Schwartz (4 december 2015 - 20 december 2015)
2015
After Hours, La Générale en Manufacture, Sevres, FR
*’L’Eau à la Bouche’ with Catherine Biocca, Agnieszka Polska, Lennart Lahuis and Müge Yilmaz. (18 October 2015 - 28 October 2015)
2015
Le Moinsun -1, Paris, FR
*‘Axis Mundi, art as a healing tool’ with Juliaan Andeweg, Danielle van Ark, Paul Geelen, Éric Giraudet de Boudemange, Egon Hanfstingl, Paul Laffoley, Shana Moulton, Jean-Baptiste Maitre, Lea Porsager, Florian & Michael Quistrebert and Louwrien Wijers. (29 May 2015 - 20 June 2015)
2013 - 2015
Thomaskerk, Amsterdam, NL
*’hocus pocus, hoc est corpus’ with Mehraneh Atashi, Eamonn Harnett, Aapo Nikkanen and Smi Vuković (7 November 2014 – 11 January 2015)
*’Het verlangen naar een beeld’ with Seán Hannan in calloboration with Sander Breure, Joppe van Hulzen, Mees van Hulzen and Witte van Hulzen (21 March – 20 April 2014)
*‘Rites de Passage’ With Gregory Buchert, Éric Giraudet de Boudemange, Allard van Hoorn and Philipp Kremer (25 October 2013 till 31 January 2014)
2014
Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, NL
*‘Klucht van de Jacht’ with Éric Giraudet de Boudemange (27 November - 27 December 2014)
*‘℞’ with Ruchama Noorda (28 June – 3 August 2014)
*‘Ali, Nino and the Numbers’ with Christoph Westermeier (24 May – 25 June 2014)
*’Amalgam’ with Carlos Irijalba (19 April – 21 May 2014)
Residences :
2017
Upcoming Across – residency program by thankyouforcoming at Villa Arson, Nice, FR
2016 - 2017
International Studio & Curatorial Program ISCP, New York City, USA (supported by Mondriaan Fonds)
2015
Ruperts Residency Program, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011
NIKI Istituto Universitario Olandese Di Storia Dell’Arte winter school, Florence, Italy
L’INFO INSOLITE
I’m addicted to salty popcorn, British mystery series and hypnotizing ASMR videos. ASMR (Autonomous sensory meridian response) is a physical sensation characterized by a pleasurable tingling that typically begins in the head and scalp and commonly triggered by soft or accented voices or sounds.
PROJET DÉVELOPPÉ À MAINS D’ŒUVRES
I’m developing an exhibition project with curator N.J. Lekkerkerk and continuing my research to the tendency of a young generation of artists, who indulges in absurdist and seemingly spiritual practices that reacts against the stultifying rationalism of the neoliberal society. These artists draw their inspiration from the digital era, popular culture and mysticism. While the digital and the spiritual seem to be two worlds apart, American writer and theorist Erik Davis argues in TechGnosis : Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information (1998) that technological communication always been permeated by esoteric and religious impulses. Davis illustrates this on the basis of science fiction writers like Philip K. Dick, who have thoroughly explored the seemingly paradoxical relationship between the occult and contemporary technology.
