Julia Kröpelin

Julia Kröpelin’s artistic process draws from an inner archive of snapshots of the immediate world surrounding her. The central theme of her artistic work is the leitmotif of experienced movement in both the real and imagined worlds. The movement enclosed within the image creates a temporal moment that allows the process of imagination to drift into an inner world of ideas, to the edges of conscious perception, lending the works an ephemeral quality. In a fragmenting visual process, she deconstructs the motif into its elements in order to reassemble it, layer by layer, through drawing and sculptural techniques, into a new narrative. In dialogue with the (exhibition) space, the work merges drawing and sculpture into a cohesive whole. Her practice moves fluidly between drawing, sculpture, and installations.

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EIN ANDERSARTIGES STARK FARBIGES OBJEKT
VEXER VERLAG 2024

ein andersartiges stark farbiges objekt
ISBN: 978-3-907112-66-3

Text: Senta Connert, Armin Hartenstein, Georg Imdahl, Julia Kröpelin, Jari Ortwig, Ludwig Seyfarth
Inteview with Julia Kröpelin/Ludwig Seyfarth (English / German), Overview (Download)

The artist's book ein andersartiges stark farbiges objekt shows the diversity of Julia Kröpelin's work. Based on a magazine, it oscillates between a catalog of works and an art book. The different groups of works - sculpture, drawing, relief and performance - are thus given a unifying space.

By zooming in and out on details, motion shots and intense colors, the focus is on rhythm and speed. This illustrates Kröpelin's artistic process, which works in drawing and sculpture with the moment of movement and ambivalences between the idea of movement and the static moment of capturing it. It is about form and formlessness and the relationship of thought and language to the appearing object.