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, Germany

2006: Visual Communication, Digital Class, under professor Joachim Sauter, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany

2007: MFA-Program, Hunter College New York, NY, USA

2009: Institute for Spacial Experiments, under professor Olafur Eliasson, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany

2012-13: Meisterschüler (master student) under professor Olafur Eliasson, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany

Grants, Awards and 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 09, Tokyo, Japan

2008: Golden Nica Award with the Image Fulgurator at Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

Landscapes of Memory, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Conference Center, Paris

When the Wind Blows, Kunsthaus Wien, Vienna, Austria

Breathless, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada

Boros Collection, Berlin, Germany

2020

Lichtsicht 7 Projektions-Triennale, Bad Rothenfelde, Germany

K60, Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, Germany

Studio Berlin, Berghain, Berlin, Germany

Als wir verschwanden. Vier Videoarbeiten, Bündner Kunstverein, Chur, Switzerland

NEUSTADT, Emscherkunstweg, Oberhausen, Germany

Féstival Images Vevey, Switzerland

Amish Quilts meet Modern Art. Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum Augsburg, Germany

Seestücke – Von der Romantik bis zur klassischen Moderne, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr, Germany

2019

Nowness Experiments: The Mesh, K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai, China

Just a bowl of cherries, 7th Thessaloniki Biennale, Experimental Center for the Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece

Festival GAMERZ 15e Édition, Aix-en-Provence, France

The Third Bank, Anozero ’19 – Bienal de Coimbra, Portugal

Das Tier in der Kunst, Wurlitzer PTC, Berlin, Germany

No mould. Sculpture in the MUSAC Collection, Museo de La Rioja, Spain

Symposium at the 58th Venice Biennale – SPACE IS THE PLACE, Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice, Italy

Elementarteile. Grundbausteine des Sprengel Museum Hannover und seiner Kunst, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover, Germany

Ré-flexions. Autour des nouvelles acquisitions, FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, France

MASK. THE ART OF TRANSFORMATION, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany

Post-Water, Museo Nazionale della Montagna CAI Torino, Italy

Nature in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow (MOCAK), Poland

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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

Tiere sind dumm und Pflanzen noch viel dümmer, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany

2014

History Apparatus, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany

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

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