About
Credits: Varvara Uhlik
Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, Julia has been a Londoner for six years now. She graduated from BA Fine Art course at CSM and recently finished Fine Art MA course at the Slade.
Julia is working with sculpture, collage, installation, printmaking, socially-engaging projects and moving image. Her art practice is informed by research into history as well as personal experiences of witnessing history-in-making. She is working with the questions of power, ideology, memorialisation, decolonisation, hauntology, and time.
Education
MA Fine Art, Slade, UCL
BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins.
1st Class Honours
Foundation Diploma in Fine Art and Design,
Central Saint Martins - University of Arts London
Short Courses - University of the Arts London - Fine Arts and Theatre Design at Central Saint Martins college and Fine Arts at Chelsea college
Exhibitions and projects
One-week online representation at Women in Photography project Link
Panel talk: Negotiating the GAZE(S) by Artisjustis Magazine. Bard Books Link
Conference: Mobilizing and Weaponizing Memories of Soviet Oppressions (Warsaw, Poland). Screening of my films Testimony of Chaika-II and Backgrounds Link
Everything Everywhere All At Once, online group show of Phantasmal Gallery Link
Women in Jazz Archive, portraits of Mabel Hampton and Gladys Bentley for an online archive project Link
Slade MA/MFA Degree Show Link
It Fit On The Way Here, Group Show Barbican Trust Link
Between the Lines, Libreria Bookshop.
Slade Interim Show, showcasing Testimony of CHAIKA-II Link
Fundraising auction and exhibition Art Aid Ukraine Link
There is Something New Under the Sun, Slade Postgrad group show at TANK Magazine space, London Link
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Showcased Monumental Threat and Friendships End at Museum Late in the context of William Blake and Conflict Beyond Borders and Forms.
Album cover art design Alternative Readings by Michael Finnissy (label: Métier). Release: March 2024 Link
Re-Prise – group show at the OPENING, Koppel Project, London Link
Slade Postgraduate interim showcase Link
Event in a context of a project: Camouflage. Wings We Desire. St Andrew's Church. 4th and 6th June Link
Central Saint Martins Graduate Showcase Link
Presenter at Central and Eastern European Creatives Network event hosted by Centrala Link
Poster design (based on Jonas Staal painting) for Socialist Anthropocene in Visual Art. Project by Maja and Reuben Fowkes (Postsocialist Art Centre UCL).
CSM Open Studios, showcasing Regaining Paradises Link
I Dance the Other (collaboration of CSM BA Fine Art and Studio Wayne McGregor)
Touched (CSM BA Fine Art and the National Gallery) – participant at Yasse Saidi's performances Link
CSM Open Studios, showcasing Monumental Threat Link
Co-author of the set design for Hedda Gabler production, ProEnglish Theatre, Kyiv Link
USU Fundraiser Gala for Ukraine Link
Sounds for Ukraine – a fundraising piano concert in support of Ukraine, which took place in St Paul's Actors Church Covent Garden. Julia was in charge of organization, management, performance, communication and advertisement Link
CSM Open Studios, showcasing Altered City and The Falling. Link
Presenter at workshop in context of Post-Socialism & Art project at TrAIN Research Centre (online) Link
UAL Graduate Showcase (online)
Catalogue of Foundation group of Central Saint Martins (online) Link
Group show Painting Beyond Itself at the Bomb Factory, London Link
Illustration accompaniment to a literature event – Dramgurtok at Gogolfest, Vinnytsia.
Internship in the educational department of the Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv.
Co-curation of an exhibition in the context of a performance of Nadar Ensemble on Gogolfest, Kyiv Link
Participation in a performance Freedom to be yourself by Daria Koltsova at He for She Art Week, Kyiv.
Internship as an assistant in communication at the Unit.City Art Prize, Kyiv.
Personal exhibition in Maisteriya gallery at The House of Artist, Kyiv.