Julius Heinemann

Pabellón de lectura (2021)
Barro cocido
52 x 6 x 10 cm

Julius Heinemann´s practice is based on the study of the different layers of perception, understood as a key for the relationship between the subject and the other – an “other” that can also be called reality, society, world, etc. Heinemann analyses how perception forms “images” – fragments of continuously updated information from the outside– with which we can deal with concepts such as time and space, crucial for the articulation of these sensory relations.
Through all his body of work, Heinemann formally researches the preconceived ways to interpret abstract values such as scale, colour, shape, and light in order to redefine strategies to understand, from a subjective position, our relationship with what surrounds us. This approach results in the creation of new models that create an archive of personal images.
His drawings, paintings, installations, books, and other media the artist works with, as well the collaborations with other artists, focus on developing a new vocabulary, that allows him to face up to the instability and the flow of nowness; this constant state of becoming, grasping other temporal and spatial structures.
Therefore, his works become the basis for a research on how to think out of normative ideas in all fields of knowledge; ideas which reverberate in the conception of history, science or politics. This continued attitude of questioning what we see in physical terms, is contemplated as a tool for thinking and feeling, and as an alternative way of imagining the possibilities of a collectivity derived from individual perceptions.
Julius Heinemann studied at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and HGB Leipzig. In 2011 he received the DAAD-Postgraduate Scholarship for Great Britain, which allowed him to study at the Royal College of Art in London completing an MA in Sculpture in 2013. After various artist residencies, among others in São Paulo, he received a scholarship to the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht from 2017 to 2018. Heinemann has exhibited internationally in cities such as London, Bogotá, Mexico City and Amsterdam.