BIOGRAPHY
Julius von Bismarck’s work forces a perceptual adjustment, like going to see a mental chiropractor. His ultimate subject, in objects, images, performances, and the movement of land, is how we see the world, and in turn construct reality.
AWARDS & EDUCATION
2005 — Visual Communication, Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
2006 — Visual Communication, Digital Class, under professor Joachim Sauter, Berlin University
of the Arts, Germany
2007 — MFA, Hunter College New York, NY, USA
2009 — Institute for Spatial Experiments, under professor Olafur Eliasson, Berlin University of
the Arts, Berlin, Germany
2013 — Masters, under professor Olafur Eliasson, Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin Germany
GRANTS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
2018 — Award of the Shifting Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
2017 — Junge Stadt sieht Junge Kunst, Prize of the City of Wolfsburg, Germany
2013 — IBB Photography Award, IBB Atrium, Berlin, Germany
2011 — Prix Ars Collide@CERN, Linz, Austria, CERN, Switzerland
2010 — Beep Electronic Art Award, Madrid, Spain
2009 — Prix Ars Electronica Award with the Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus, Linz, Austria Selection of the Jury, Japan Media Arts Festival 2009, Tokyo, Japan
2008 — Golden Nica Award with the Image Fulgurator at Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
- WE ARE LANDSCAPES, Max Levai, New York, NY
- GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
- Blickachsen Biennale 14, Bad Homburg, Germany
- FIX IT!, UMBAU statt Abriss, nGbK, Berlin, Germany
- Capítulo VII: Shifting Grounds, LagoAlgo, Mexico City, Mexico
- Touch Nature, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
- Kin Is Not Kind, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany
2024
- Böse Blumen, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Berlin, Germany
- Save Land, United for Land, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany
- Messengers from above: Meteoriten - mysteriöse Boten aus dem All, ERES Stiftung, Munich, Germany
- Gaia Should Be Safe, Macalline Center of Art, Beijing, China
- A Botanical Conversation, Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels, Belgium
- Hello Nature: Wie wollen wir zusammen leben?, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, Germany
- Arcadia!, Kewenig, Berlin, Germany
- The Parliament of Marmots, Biennale Gherdëina, Ortisei, Italy
- Arcadia, Bally Foundation, Lugano, Switzerland
- When the Monster is Speaking, Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
- Fiktion der Wirklichkeit, Bilker Bunker, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 20 Jahre Langen Foundation: Drei Generationen – Eine Leidenschaft, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
- Horizon and Limits, CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain
- High Five, Kunstpalais, Erlangen, Germany
- Heavy Water / of Coordinates, Containers and Containment, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany
2023
- So wie wir sind, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
- 16: Bienal de Artes Mediales Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Mexichrome: Fotografía y color en México, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
- The Bright Side of the Desert Moon, Noor Riyadh Festival, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Horizon and Limit, CaixaForum, Madrid, Spain
- Erde: Verwobenes Leben, Kunststiftung DZ Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
- ENERGIE:ENERGEIA, Delphie Space, Freiburg, Germany
- Artists for Nature, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Abenteuer Abstraktion, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
- ANGST - Krisenindikator oder Überlebenstrieb, Künstlerverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden, Germany
- Ausstellung zum Wettbewerb des Hans-Purrmann-Preises, Kulturhof Flachsgasse, Speyer, Germany
2022
- Bienal do Mercusol: BIENAL 13, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Breathing Water, Drinking Air, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Chronicles of Disappearance, Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany
- Forest Through the Trees, Adam Aronson Fine Arts Center, St. Louis, USA
- Art Biesenthal, with Julian Charrière, Wehrmühle Biesenthal, Biesenthal, Germany
- 4. ART SAFIENTAL Biennale *von der Erde lernen, Tenna, Safiental, Switzerland
- Landscape of Memory, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Conference Center, Paris, France
- When the Wind Blows , Kunsthaus Wien, Vienna, Austria
- Breathless, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
- Sammlung Boros #4, Boros Collection, Berlin, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
- Yi Museum, Hangzhou, China (upcoming)
- Australian Center of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia (upcoming)
2025
- Petit Palais, Art Basel Paris Public Program
- KunstHaus Wien, Vienna, Austria
- BeiQiu Museum, Nanjing, China
- You Can Dance if You Willow, The Ranch, Montauk, NY
2024
- Grenzen der Intelligenzen, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
- Grenzen der Intelligenzen, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany
- Zwei Wölfinnen, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
2023
- Julius von Bismarck, La Pista 500, Pinacoteca Agnielli, Torino, Italy
- In the Beginning, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
- When Platitudes Become Form, Berlinische Galerie. Museum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin, Germany
2022
- Whole Earth Archive, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany
2021
- NEUSTADT, with Marta Dyachenko, Emscherkunstweg, Bochum, Germany
- Landscape Painting, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
2020
- Feuer mit Feuer, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
2019
- I Am Afraid, with Julian Charrière, Sies + Höke, Dusseldorf, Germany- Die Mimik der Tethys, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2018
- Immer noch der Lauf der Dinge, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany- I’m afraid I must ask you to leave, with Julian Charrière, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany
- Public Face, with Benjamin Maus and Richard Wilhelmer, Hamburg, Germany
2017
- Gewaltenteilung, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany- Talking to Thunder, Sies + Höke, Dusseldorf, Germany- Good Weather, Marlborough Contemporary, New York, NY, USA
2016
- Approximately Three Dimensions, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany
- Desert Now, with Julian Charrière and Felix Kiessling, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Objects in mirror might be closer than they appear, with Julian Charrière, Villa Bernasconi,
- Grand-Lancy, Geneva, Switzerland
2015
- Landscape Painting, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY, USA
2014
- History Apparatus, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany
- Clockwork, with Julian Charrière, OBEN, Vienna, Austria
2013
- Unfall am Mittelpunkt Deutschlands, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany
- Les bêtes sont bêtes et les plantes le sont encore plus, Galerie Ilka Bree, Bordeaux, France
- This is so romantic, IMO Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012
- Punishment I, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany
- LE DICTATEUR: These Peanuts are Bullets, Family Business, New York, NY
2011
- 5 Minute Museum, STRP, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2009
- Julius von Bismarck: IMAGE FULGURATOR, Kapelica Gallery, Ljublijana, Slovenia
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arken Museum, Ishøj, Denmark, Colección BEEP de Arte Electrónico, Spain, FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, France, Fundación Televisa, Mexico City, Mexico, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany, Musac – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, France, Sammlung Philara, Dusseldorf, Germany, Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Hanover, Germany, Stadtgalerie Wolfsburg, Germany
