Born in Paris, France, in 1989. Juliette Sturlèse lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Sheffield, UK. An interest in the transportive capacities of colour, shape, and light guide the artist’s practice, which takes the form of large-scale abstract paintings rendered with oil and beeswax. Sturlèse is interested in the non-linear poetics of memory, particularly how the past bubbles into the future, and how sensory experience maps the parameters of personal/interior worlds onto shared/external worlds.
Placing a symbolic emphasis on colour, Sturlèse’s work acts as a cosmic portal into loose associations and landscapes of the mind. Equally meditative and stimulating, her works immediately engage the viewer with their size and vibrancy. Their imagined compositions channel elements of the cosmological, the ecological, and the feminine, possessing a cheeky sensuality that’s bristling with liveness. Through a precise painting process that cultivates dense, texturized colour fields through the application of beeswax, Sturlèse’s works appear like self-contained worlds that glow with their own radiance, inviting us deeper into a subconscious space that defies ready explanation or even understanding.
Sturlèse studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, and at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee in Berlin. From 2017-2019, she was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. Sturlèse has exhibited widely across Europe, with recent presentations including solo shows at ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY in London and REITER in Leipzig, as well as several group shows at REITER in Berlin, Kunstraum Konrad in Puschberg, Austria, and Sabine Knust KUNZ in Munich.
EDUCATION
2019 Meisterschülerin with professor Nader Ahriman, Weissensee academy of art, Berlin (DE)
2018-2013 Diploma in painting, professors Werner Liebmann, Pia Linz, Weissensee academy of art, Berlin
2015-2016 Erasmus – Year abroad, Mimar Sinan school of fine arts, Istanbul, (TR)
2013-2012 Guest student, academy of fine arts of Bologna, professor Simone Pelegrini, Bologna, (IT)
2007-2011 Master 1 in law, Droit privé, University of Paris La Sorbonne and CAVEJ, (FR)
SCOLARSHIPS AND PROGRAM
2017-2018, Stipendium deutsche Studienstiftung, The German Academic Scholarship Foundation, (DE)
2018 Making ways, artists program, mentored by Paul Morrison, Sheffield (UK)
ART FAIR
Art Rotterdam 2024, (NL)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 A green mouse was running through the grass, Annka Kultys gallery, London, (UK)
2022 The night will tell us, Reiter gallery, Leipzig,(DE)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2023
individual all-around, SAC @ Timișoara Garrison Command, with 111invers1 (Mugur Grosu & Lumi Mihai), Allienim (Ileana Moro & Marius Rițiu), Florin Arhire, Olivia Berckemeyer, Marie Bovo, Kerstin Brätsch, Mirela Cerbu, Nicolae Comănescu, Radu Comșa, Iulian Cristea, Călin Dan, Wim Delvoye, Eduard Gabia & Valeriu Borcoș, Vlaicu Golcea, Dimitrie Luca Gora, Dumitru Gorzo, Alex Higyed & Andreea Ioniță, Gregor Hildebrandt, Oda Jaune, Ioana Joa, Alicja Kwade, Radu Manelici, Andreea Medar, Tudor Mutrescu, Adrian Florin Pop, Laure Prouvost, Marius Rițiu, Juliette Sturlese, Mircea Suciu, Mihai Toth, Ecaterina Vrana, Jorinde Voigt, Tomasz Wendland, Thomas Zitzwitz, curators: Alex Radu, Thomas Zitwitz, Timisoara, Romania
Cacotopia 07, with Ana Benavides, Jesse Draxler, Lennart Grau, Florïne Ïmo, Rachel de Joode, Sam King, Signe Pierce, Emerson Pullman, Kora Moya Rojo, Juliette Sturlèse, Vickie Vainionpää, Addie Wagenknecht, Annka Kultys gallery, London, United Kingdom
2022
Oblivion, abundance and Aquarius (the age of), with David Polzin, Mariechen Danz, Mathias Gramoso, Nik Nowak, Nona, Inescu, Pola Sieverding, Sarah, Ancelle Schönfeld, Simon Mullan, Zoe Claire Miller, Zuzanna Czebatul, curator: Amélie Esterhazy, Open space gallery, Berlin, Germany
Ich gehe im Wald und singe ein Lied, with Annabell Häfner, Antonia Nannt, Karin Felkel, Lena-Elise Aicher, Media Esfarjani, Nanna Kaiser, curator: Matteo Kramer, Kunstraum Konrad, Puschberg, Austria
2021/2020
Days of heartbreak, with Marjan Baniasadi, Göksu Baysal, Peter Böhnisch, Daniel Correa Mejía, Alexander Denkert, Emily Eldridge, Daniela Elorza, Oska Gutheil, Ekin Su Koç, Flo Maak, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Kate MccGwire, Christopher Colm Morrin, Dennis Scholl, Anna Steinert, Songwen Sun-von Berg, Özer Toraman, curator: Nicola Petek, Pony Royal, Berlin (DE)
Buddies, duo show with Sophie Ullrich, Reiter gallery, Berlin
Feldmalerei, with Emma Adler, Guillaume Airiaud, Dean Annunziata, Isabelle Fein, Philip Grozinger, Rae Hicks, Nikolaus List, Timur Lukas, Mannuel Resch, Anna Steinert, curator:Jana Jedermann, Rohlstorf, (DE)
Je veux ma table!, with Hans Aichinger, Carsten, Carsten Goering, Thomas Taube, Reiter Gallery, Berlin (DE)
Open Windows, Square Gallery, London (UK)
2019
Vorstellungsgespräche, with Susanne Hofmann, Sophie Ullrich, Christian Holze, Reiter gallery, Leipzig, (DE)
Dark Lantern, with Jan Albers, Ian Anderson, Heliya Badakhshan, Ralf Brög, Glenn Brown, John Chilver, Koen Delaere, Tim Etchells, Saul Fletcher, Neil Gall, Deme Georghiou, Gerard Hemsworth, Gregor Hildebrandt, Dan Holdsworth, Dale Holmes, Richard Jacobs, Elise Legal, Caroline McCarthy, Paul Morrison, Jost Münster, Daniel Pettitt, Darren Richardson, Bede Robinson, Gary Simmonds, Michael Stubbs, Juliette Sturlese, Jan van der Ploeg, Riette Wanders, Mathew Weir, Eleanor Wright, curator: Paul Morrison, SABINE KNUST KUNZ gallery, Munich (DE)
Perfekte Zustände, Meisterschülerausstellung, X-lane, Berlin (DE)
2018 and past
Defying Currents, Abschlussausstellung, The shelf, Berlin (DE)
Neue Malerei, Museum Kesselhaus, Berlin
Playlist, Erratum gallery, Berlin
Bethlehem Boys Club, Sidney and Matilda, Sheffield (UK)
TO(UND)RA collective/Introduction, with Bede Robinson, Élise Legale, Sheffield (UK)
Ho2, SEZ, Klasse Werner Liebmann, Berlin
YOK, Mimar Sinan Sanatlar Universitesi, Istanbul, Turkey
Cirrus and Capillatus, Klasse Werner Liebmann, Haus des Rundfunk, Berlin