
Ludwig, Damien & The Love Guru, Zurich, 2024

Ludwig, Damien & The Love Guru, Zurich, 2024

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

2024
Gouache and ink on paper, artist frame
76 × 116 cm (framed)

Installation view
Art Basel Parcours, Basel, 2023

Installation view
Art Basel Parcours, Basel, 2023

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

2022
C-Print on Fuji Maxima
44 × 66 cm (framed: 83 × 61 cm)
Documentation by Jens Franke

Gift
Wende Museum, Los Angeles, 2022

Installation view
BPA exhibition
KW, Berlin, 2022

Installation view
BPA exhibition
KW, Berlin, 2022

A Smile With One Tooth
Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, 2021
Documentation by Galerie Thomas Schulte

A Smile With One Tooth
Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, 2021
Documentation by Galerie Thomas Schulte

Frieze Art Fair, London, 2021

2021
Playmobil houses
Dimensions variable

2021
Pigment print
96 × 75 cm

Europe Divided Into Its Kingdoms
Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, 2021
Documentation by Kristien Daem

2021
Gelatine silver print and custom made steel frame
107,5 × 74 cm (framed)
Documentation by Kristien Daem

2021
Gelatine silver print and custom made steel frame
55,5 × 40 cm (framed)
Documentation by Kristien Daem

Gift
Galerie Wedding, Berlin, 2020

2018
Pigment print
160 × 173 cm

2017
Installation view, props, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, DE

2016
Lenticular print
180 × 112,5 cm
Metal
Dimensions variable
Installation view
HxBxT, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, 2018
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, Portikus, Frankfurt a.M.; Opening: 7 March 2025
- Group exhibition, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin; Opening: 9 April 2025
- Solo exhibition, Kunstverein Schwerin; Opening: 11 April 2025
- Solo exhibition, Galerie Thomas Schulte; Opening: Art Week Berlin 2025
- Group exhibition, Krull Stiftung, Opening: Art Week Berlin 2025
Selected solo exhibitions
- 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
- Familiar, Gauli Zitter, Brussels, 2024
- Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2024–2025
- Everything but the Kitchen Sink, group exhibition, 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
- 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
- ‘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
