Damien & The Love Guru

In his practice Julian Irlinger approaches past events in sight of future conflicts. Using a variety of media, he combines research with selected material from historical, public and personal contexts. His presentations focus on institutions and images that are related to the writing of history.

Education

• Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2018, New York, US
• MA Fine Art, Städelschule, 2017, Frankfurt, DE
• BA Fine Art, HGB Leipzig, 2017, Leipzig, DE
• BA Art History, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, 2011, Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE

Upcoming Exhibitions

• Gift, Wende Museum of the Cold War, 2022, Los Angeles, US

Solo & Duo Exhibitions

• A Smile With One Tooth, Galerie Thomas Schulte, 2022, Berlin, BE
• Frieze Art Fair, invited by Damien & The Love Guru, 2021, London, UK
• Blood: A Proposal For A Film, with Asha Sheshadri, Sangt Hipolyt, 2021, Berlin, DE
• Europe Divided Into Its Kingdoms, Damien & The Love Guru, 2021, Brussels DE
• Gift, Galerie Wedding, 2020, Berlin, DE
• Fragments Of A Crisis, Wilhelm Hack Museum, 2019, Ludwigshafen, DE
• Subjects of Emergency, Galerie Thomas Schulte, 2018, Berlin, DE
• Props, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, 2017, Darmstadt, DE

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Wet Resistance, Dortmund Kunstverein, 2022, Dortmund, DE
• Shapes of Time, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, 2021, Frankfurt, DE
• Art Cologne, invited by Galerie Thomas Schulte, 2021, Cologne, DE
• Living As, hosted by Sangt Hipolyt, Loggia, 2020, Munich, DE
• Art Los Angeles Contemporary, 2019, Los Angeles, US
• Copines-Copains, Wentrup, 2019, Berlin, DE
• Artists Space, 2018, New York, US
• H × B × T, Nassauischer Kunstverein, 2018, Wiesbaden, DE
• Field of Codes, Pik Deutz, 2018, Cologne, DE
• Ausstellen des Ausstellens, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2018, Baden-Baden, DE
• Home Of The Brave, MMK Frankfurt, 2017, Frankfurt, DE
• You Don‘t Need a Weatherman, Galerie Thomas Schulte, 2016, Berlin, DE
• l’Exposition Imaginaire, Kunsthalle Wien, 2016, Vienna, AT
• Kunst fur die Kunst, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, 2015, Darmstadt, DE
• On View, Kunstverein Leipzig, 2015, Leipzig, DE
• Klasse Klein, Wiesowski und Habord, 2015, Berlin, DE
• 11.04.2014—10.05.2014, Antikenmuseum & Ägyptisches Museum Leipzig, 2014, Leipzig, DE
• Studienpreis der HGB, Galerie der HGB, 2014, Leipzig, DE
• kh 46, Raumlabor, 2014, Braunschweig, DE
• Germany Thought Machines, Heiligenkreuzerhof, 2013, Vienna, AT
• Dies ist kein Offspace!, 2012, Nuremberg, DE

Grants and Awards

• Kunstfonds Bonn Funding Award, 2020, DE
• Hessische Kulturstiftung, Travel Grant, 2019, DE
• Campari Art Prize, Artissima, 2019, Turino, IT
• Erlangen Kulturstiftung, 2016, DE
• Kunsthalle Darmstadt/Lionsclub Förderpreis, 2015, DE

Related Activities

• Shelter In Place, screening program, curated with David Hartt, 2020
• Projections, screening program, curated with Juliane Duft, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, 2017, Darmstadt, DE
• Co-founder of exhibition space Johan, 2015, Frankfurt, DE

• Gift, edited by Julian Irlinger and Jan Tappe, with contributions by Julian Irlinger, Kerstin Stakemeier and Jan Tappe, published by Spector Books, 2021, Leipzig, DE
• Fragments Of A Crisis, edited by Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, DE, with contributions by Nora M. Jäger and Rene Zechlin, published by Spector Books, 2019, Leipzig, DE
• Props, edited by Julian Irlinger, with a contribution by Joseph Henry, published by Spector Books, 2019
• Byproducts/Matters edited by Julian Irlinger, with contributions by Tess Edmonson and Clemens Jahn, published by Spector Books, 2016, Leipzig, DE

Published Work

• In Medias Res, Fluentum Collection, published by Mousse Publishing, 2022, Berlin, DE
• Provence SS 2021: Scandal Issue, edited by Olamiju Fajemisin, Philip Pilekjær and Tobias Kaspar, published by Motto Distributions, 2021, Berlin, DE
• Gift, Texte Zur Kunst, 2020

• ‘Stipendiat Julian Irlinger’, interview with Sylvia Metz, Hessische Kultur Stiftung, 2020
• ‘Art Meets Social Welfare Office’, TAZ, 2020
• Gift, Contemporary Art Daily, 2020
• Living As, Art Viewer, 2020
• ‘Preise der Turiner Artissima gehen nach Berlin’, Monopol, 2019
• Subjects of Emergency, Contemporary Art Daily, 2019
• ‘Julian Irlinger’, Wall Street International Magazine, 2018
• Subjects of Emergency, Ocula, 2018
• Subjects of Emergency, ArtForum, 2018
• ‘View into the Studio’ by Michael Hierholzer and Wonge Bergmann, FAZ, 2016