Julius Heinemann, born 1984 in Munich, lives and works in Berlin, investigates the physical, neurological, and cultural structures upon which the perception of the world is traditionally based. The relationship between how the eye sees and how the body moves and behaves exposes the issue of subjective individual perception, the construction of reality, and interactions with others (subjects and objects).
Based on the study of time and space, and through the experience of color, light, shape, or line, Heinemann constantly explores how to create new abstract tools to understand perception in its flow of nowness. The artist structures these elements like vocabulary and uses it in his paintings, drawings, installations, books, and every other type of media he experiments with. This process serves as a starting point for new ways of understanding the human condition – a social, subjective, individual reality.
Heinemann studied Photography at the Folkwang University, Essen, as well as the HGB Leipzig, and holds an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London. He has received numerous scholarships, notably from the DAAD and the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, and participated in artistic residencies in Brazil, Mexico and Italy. He has exhibited internationally, among others, in Amsterdam, Bogotá, Lisbon, London, Mexico City, São Paulo and Zurich.
