Julian Irlinger

Works

Installation view
*Ludwig*, Damien & The Love Guru, Zurich, 2024

*Ludwig*
2024
Digital video, sound
8 min (loop)
Installation view

*Cel animation background (castle/hill/stars/night)*
2024
Gouache and ink on paper, artist frame
76 × 116 cm (framed)

*Fragments of a Crisis*, 2023, HD video, 11'30" (loop), digital projection; *Untitled (Fachwerkhaus),* 2019/2021, readymade toyhouses
Installation view
Art Basel Parcours, Basel, 2023

*Untitled (Fachwerkhaus),* 2019/2021, readymade toyhouses
Installation view
Art Basel Parcours, Basel, 2023

*variable location*
2022
Silver gelatin print
50 × 33,5 cm (framed: 56 × 39,5 cm)
^{Documentation by Jens Franke}

*before time*
2022
C-Print on Fuji Maxima
44 × 66 cm (framed: 83 × 61 cm)
^{Documentation by Jens Franke}

Installation view
*Gift*
Wende Museum, Los Angeles, 2022

*Schweinfurt*
Installation view
BPA exhibition
KW, Berlin, 2022

Installation view
*A Smile With One Tooth*
Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, 2021
^{Documentation by Galerie Thomas Schulte}

Installation view
Frieze Art Fair, London, 2021

Untitled
2021
Playmobil houses
Dimensions variable

*Expiration: 3 Months After Public Notice (II)*
2021
Pigment print
96 × 75 cm

Installation view
*Europe Divided Into Its Kingdoms*
Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2021
^{Documentation by Kristien Daem}

The consistency of geography doesn’t seem to be the point. The inaccurate pieces delineate borders, mainly to suggest that certain nations form states or kingdoms. In this manner, the printed map is dissected and named “Europe Divided Into Its Kingdoms”. The precariously crafted board game is marketed as an educational tool for the children of the wealthy. It is used to prepare for the expansion of the Empire. (Fig.2)
2021
Gelatine silver print and custom made steel frame
107,5 × 74 cm (framed)
^{Documentation by Kristien Daem}

Several bridges connect the north and south of Frankfurt. The Main river divides the view of the skyline from the south side. Heading east from the bank towers, it is a thirty minute walk to the built-in head-quarters of the European central bank. The singular and eccentric skyscraper connects all countries of the Eurozone.
2021
Gelatine silver print and custom made steel frame
55,5 × 40 cm (framed)
^{Documentation by Kristien Daem}

Installation view
*Gift*
Galerie Wedding, Berlin, 2020

*Expiration: no information*
2018
Pigment print
160 × 173 cm

*props*
2017
Installation view, *props,* Kunsthalle Darmstadt, DE

*props*
2016
Lenticular print
180 × 112,5 cm
Metal
Dimensions variable
Installation view
*HxBxT,* Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, 2018

Statement

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

BPA (Berlin Program for Artists), 2021–2022
Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, New York 2017–2018
Graduation Fine Arts, Städelschule Frankfurt a.M., 2017
Fine Arts, Städelschule Frankfurt a.M., 2014–2017
Fine Arts, HGB Leipzig, 2011–2014
BA Art History, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2011
Art History/Pedagogy, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2008–2011

Upcoming

Solo exhibition, Galerie Thomas Schulte; Opening: Art Week Berlin 2025
Group exhibition, Krull Stiftung, Opening: Art Week Berlin 2025

Selected solo exhibitions

Verirrte Zeiger, Kunstverein Schwerin, 2025
The Curtain of Time, PORTIKUS, Frankfurt a.M., 2025
Parloir, Milan, 2025
Ludwig, Damien & The Love Guru, Zurich, 2024
Fragments of a Crisis, Art Basel Parcours, Galerie Thomas Schulte and Damien & The Love Guru, Basel, 2023
Gift, Wende Museum of the Cold War, Los Angeles, 2022
A Smile with One Tooth, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, 2022
Blood (with Asha Sheshadri), Sangt Hypolit, Berlin, 2021
Europe Divided Into Its Kingdoms, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2021
Gift, Galerie Wedding, Berlin, 2020
Fragments of a Crisis, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, 2019
Subjects of Emergency, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, 2018
props, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, 2017

Selected group exhibitions

It’s Just a Matter of Time, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2025
Familiar, Gauli Zitter, Brussels, 2024
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2024–2025
Everything but the Kitchen Sink, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, 2024
The Educational Web, Kunstverein Hamburg, 2023
Higher Spirits, Monopol E.V., Berlin, 2023
manual of errors?, Sgomento, Zurich, 2023
Ever. Present. Past., Museumslandschaft Kassel, 2023
BPA exhibition, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2022
Dialog, Ideal Art Space, Leipzig, 2022
Wet Resistance, Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2022
Shapes of Time, Galerie Wilma Torksdorf, Frankfurt a.M., 2021
living as, Loggia Loggia, Munich, 2020
The Academy, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, 2019
Copines-Copains, Wentrup Galerie, Berlin, 2019
Public Space, artists space, New York, 2018
H × B × T, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, 2018
Field of Codes, Pik Deutz, Cologne, 2018
Ausstellen des Ausstellens, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2018
Home of the brave, MMK, Frankfurt a.M., 2017
You Don‘t Need a Weatherman, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, 2016
l’Exposition Imaginaire, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2016
Kunst für die Kunst, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, 2015
On View, Kunstverein Leipzig, 2015
Studienpreis der HGB, Leipzig, 2014
kh 46, Raumlabor, Brunswick, 2014
thought machines, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna, 2013

Art fairs

Hotel Warszawa Art Fair, 2023
Art Basel Parcours, in collaboration with Galerie Thomas Schulte, 2023
Frieze Art Fair, London, 2021
Art Cologne, invited by Galerie Thomas Schulte, 2021
Art Los Angeles Contemporary, 2019

Grants and awards

Krullstiftung, Berlin, 2024
NEUSTARTplus-Stipendium, Bonn, 2022
NEUSTART KULTUR-Stipendium, Bonn, 2021
BBK studio grant, Berlin, 2021
NEUSTART KULTUR-Stipendium, Bonn, 2020
Campari Art Prize, Artissima, Turino, 2019
Hessische Kulturstiftung, Travel Grant, 2019
Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, New York, 2017
Kulturstiftung Erlangen, 2016
Förderpreis Kunsthalle Darmstadt/Lionsclub, 2015
Kunstfonds Bonn, 2015 (with Spector Books)
Student Award HGB Leipzig, 2014

Related activities

Shelter in Place, online screening program, curated together with David Hartt, 2020
Projections, screening program, curated together with Juliane Duft for Kunsthalle Darmstadt, 2017

Publications

Gift, published by Spector Books, 2021
Fragments Of A Crisis, published by Spector Books, 2019
props, published by Spector Books, 2019
Byproducts / Matters (double volume), published by Spector Books, 2016

Published work

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

Press

‘Julian Irlinger in Frankfurt Schlafende Figuren, sprechende Räume,’ Monopol Magazine, 2025
‘Julian Irlinger “Ludwig” at Damien & The Love Guru, Zurich,’ Mousse Magazine, 2024
Art Basel’s Parcours section turns churches, tunnels and roundabouts into galleries, Financial Times, 2023
‘I Don't Feel Guilt’: Sophie Thun and Julian Irlinger on the Photographic Archive, frieze, 2022
Julian Irlinger Captures the Continuities of Imperialism, review of ‘Europe Divided into its Kingdoms’, frieze, 2021
A Smile With One Tooth, Contemporary Art Daily, 2022
‘Stipendiat Julian Irlinger,’ interview with Sylvia Metz, Hessische Kultur Stiftung, 2020
‘Art Meets Social Welfare Office,’ TAZ, 2020
‘Gift,’ Contemporary Art Daily, 2020
‘Preise der Turiner Artissima gehen nach Berlin,’ Monopol, 2019
Subjects of Emergency, Contemporary Art Daily, 2019
Subjects of Emergency, ArtForum, 2018

Installation view, Ludwig, Damien & The Love Guru, Zurich, 2024

Ludwig, 2024, Digital video, sound, 8 min (loop), Installation view

Cel animation background (castle/hill/stars/night), 2024, Gouache and ink on paper, artist frame, 76 × 116 cm (framed)

Fragments of a Crisis, 2023, HD video, 11'30" (loop), digital projection; Untitled (Fachwerkhaus), 2019/2021, readymade toyhouses, Installation view, Art Basel Parcours, Basel, 2023

Untitled (Fachwerkhaus), 2019/2021, readymade toyhouses, Installation view, Art Basel Parcours, Basel, 2023

variable location, 2022, Silver gelatin print, 50 × 33,5 cm (framed: 56 × 39,5 cm), ^{Documentation by Jens Franke}

before time, 2022, C-Print on Fuji Maxima, 44 × 66 cm (framed: 83 × 61 cm), ^{Documentation by Jens Franke}

Installation view, Gift, Wende Museum, Los Angeles, 2022

Schweinfurt, Installation view, BPA exhibition, KW, Berlin, 2022

Installation view, A Smile With One Tooth, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, 2021, ^{Documentation by Galerie Thomas Schulte}

Installation view, Frieze Art Fair, London, 2021

Untitled, 2021, Playmobil houses, Dimensions variable

Expiration: 3 Months After Public Notice (II), 2021, Pigment print, 96 × 75 cm

Installation view, Europe Divided Into Its Kingdoms, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2021, ^{Documentation by Kristien Daem}

The consistency of geography doesn’t seem to be the point. The inaccurate pieces delineate borders, mainly to suggest that certain nations form states or kingdoms. In this manner, the printed map is dissected and named “Europe Divided Into Its Kingdoms”. The precariously crafted board game is marketed as an educational tool for the children of the wealthy. It is used to prepare for the expansion of the Empire. (Fig.2), 2021, Gelatine silver print and custom made steel frame, 107,5 × 74 cm (framed), ^{Documentation by Kristien Daem}

Several bridges connect the north and south of Frankfurt. The Main river divides the view of the skyline from the south side. Heading east from the bank towers, it is a thirty minute walk to the built-in head-quarters of the European central bank. The singular and eccentric skyscraper connects all countries of the Eurozone. , 2021, Gelatine silver print and custom made steel frame, 55,5 × 40 cm (framed), ^{Documentation by Kristien Daem}

Installation view, Gift, Galerie Wedding, Berlin, 2020

Expiration: no information, 2018, Pigment print, 160 × 173 cm

props, 2017, Installation view, props, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, DE

props, 2016, Lenticular print, 180 × 112,5 cm, Metal, Dimensions variable, Installation view, HxBxT, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, 2018