Julia Murakami | photo by the art resort

Julia Murakami

Allgemein, artists

 

Julia Murakami | photo by the art resort
Julia Murakami | photo by the art resort

 

Julia Murakami, daughter of a German rollerskate princess and a Japanese macrobiotic cook, was born in Lucerne, Switzerland. She spent her early childhood in New York and Miami and studied in Madrid before settling in Germany. Her passion for the arts sprouted at an early age and blossomed in adolescence when she discovered writing and photography; her love for creating images and performing has made the fine arts an inevitable choice for a career. Since moving to Berlin she has immersed herself in many aspects of diorama art, photography, installation and site specific work.
Influenced by the heroines and iconic imagery of her childhood – from The Wizard of Oz to Wonder Woman, from Greek mythology to Andy Warhol – she grew up on the crossroads of different cultural backgrounds, creating a surreal fairy-talesque world.

Since 2008 Julia Murakami has participated in exhibitions and art fairs in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Thailand, South Korea, USA and other countries. Her works were included in “European Photography #94” along with Erwin Olaf, Hisaji Hara and Daido Moriyama. In 2010 the art resort magazine published a special feature about her worldwide art project “Japanese Guerilla Paparazzi“ documenting site specific installations in Thailand. Besides her work as an artist, she is a regular curator and artistic director for Directors Lounge Berlin, contemporary media and art.

 

 

works

Fairy tales

The JGP

Once Upon A Time

Julia Murakami and Alan Smithee

all

exhibitions

Selected exhibitions / art fairs / curation

2014 11. Berliner Liste, 18 – 21 September
2014 GalleryOn, C.A.R. network, Seoul, South Korea
2014 C.A.R. – Media Art Fair
2013 Night Of Museums, “Show Me Shorts”, Filmmuseum Düsseldorf (Curator)
2013 Japan Day, Black Box, Düsseldorf
2013 C.A.R. Media Art Fair, Zeche Zollverein
2012 C.A.R. Network at Zaha Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2012 Contemporary Art Ruhr, World Heritage Site Zollverein, Essen – contemporary art fair
2012 Directors Lounge @ L’Isola Del Cinema, Rome, Italy (Curator)
2012 Japan Tag, DL@Black Box im Filmmuseum, Düsseldorf (Curator)
2012 Contemporary Art Ruhr, Welterbe Zollverein, Essen – forum and media art fair
2012 Kunsthalle Paderborn @ International Short Film Festival Detmold
2012 DL@Experiments in Cinema v7.2 Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (Curator)
2012 The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Berlin
2011 Get Together, C.A.R., Miami, USA
2011 Contemporary Art Ruhr, World Heritage Site Zollverein, Essen – contemporary art fair
2011 Nuit Blanche, Marie du 11.e, Paris, France
2011 Julia Murakami & Alan Smithee, Deutsche Show, curated by Spunk Seipel, Prager Kabarett, Divus, Prague, Czech Republic
2011 MACRO (Museo d’Arte Contemporanea) Testaccio, Rome, Italy, video installment
2011 Contemporary Art Ruhr, World Heritage Site Zollverein, Essen – forum and media art fair
2011 Japan Day, DL@Black Box, Filmmuseum, Düsseldorf (Curator)
2011 Los Angeles Art Association (L.A.A.A.), NOT A CAR, Los Angeles, USA
2011 The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Julia Murakami & Alan Smithee, Berlin
2010 Contemporary Art Ruhr, World Heritage Site Zollverein, Essen – contemporary art fair
2010 Alan Smithee/Julia Murakami: twenty dots for Miami, public intervention at the Art Basel Miami, Miami, USA
2010 Gallery Artishocke, Essen
2010 the art resort special edition # 1 – featuring Julia Murakami and the Japanese Guerilla Paparazzi, Koh Samui, Thailand
2010 Contemporary Art Ruhr, World Heritage Site Zollverein, Essen – forum and media art fair
2010 The 6th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Berlin
2009 Contemporary Art Ruhr, World Heritage Site Zollverein, Essen – contemporary art fair
2009 Preview Berlin – The Emerging Art Fair, Berlin
2009 Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin
2009 Kunstverein Kleinzetelvitz – 1. Biennale Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
2009 Contemporary Art Ruhr, World Heritage Site Zollverein, Essen – forum and media art fair
2009 Tease Art Fair, RheinTriadem, Cologne
2009 Residenz, Paderborn
2009 Zirkus Minimus/Directors Lounge, Walden Kunstausstellungen, Berlin
2008 Contemporary Art Ruhr, World Heritage Site Zollverein, Essen – contemporary art fair
2008 Temporäre Kunsthalle Paderborn – group exhibition
ongoing projects

2010 – cooperation with concept artist  Alan Smithee
2009 – Directors Lounge, platform for contemporary art and media
2009 – The Japanese Guerilla Paparazzi World Tour 2009 -2012. Worldwide intervention into public space

on the web

Julia Murakami

The Japanese Guerilla Paparazzi

Murakami Samui