Julia Nordholz

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JULIA NORDHOLZ

Her transdisciplinary work addresses the pressing environmental and social challenges of our time. As artist, curator and social designer, Nordholz creates immersive spatial installations. Her works are often interactive and invite the audience to become part of the art, blurring the boundaries between observer and observed. Her contribution to the exhibition refers to the multifaceted and profound relationship between humans and nature. Her artistic practice is strongly influenced by philosophical and ecological issues. Her work explores the ideological conflicts that affect both the destruction and protection of the environment, and questions the role of individuals and states in the environmental crisis.

It is important to her to “unmute” the voices of ecosystems and give them a voice. To this end, she explores threatened trees, forests and waters and their diverse inhabitants to tell their stories in a poetic way and raise awareness of their need for protection. For her, possessing diverse knowledge (including comprehensive artistic and scientific research, networking, and a general attentiveness to unfamiliar situations), along with intense listening and careful observation, is crucial. Her transdisciplinary project experiences, complemented by her background in various mutually reinforcing studies, as well as her transitions between artistic practice, scientific research, pedagogical and curatorial work, all focused on inclusive and participatory practices, assist her in this endeavor. 

Her main motivation is to explore climate change and its effects to raise awareness of its causes and consequences through artistic methods, actively engaging in the discourse. She is particularly interested in society’s perception of climate change, often influenced by individual perspe tives and experiences. Through her artistic and curatorial work, she aims to make the topic accessible to a wider audience and an integral part of social discussions. Her primary focus is on fostering the process of amplifying by empowering both people and nature to assert their rights. Collaborating with local climate protection organizations and scientific institutes, she identifies, highlights, and addresses barriers to social participation and protest. Her current artistic endeavors delve into the tree and forest conservation, the transformation of rivers, shores, and coasts, as well as the dynamics of plant life, cohabitation, and urban evolution, while also exploring rituals and healing practices.

She works with sculpture methods, sound, video, installation, painting, performance and text and combines these to create participatory spatial installations that play with interactive perceptual techniques and thus become alive and uncontrollable. The audience is involved in communicating with the works or interactive performances. In her audio works, she uses field recordings, various analogue and digital instruments. Julia Nordholz resides and operates in Hamburg, Germany.

01.10. – 30.10. | 2024
BOTANICAL JOURNEYS
Experimental Workshops
SCHOOL OF SURVIVAL
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

25.08. | 2024
BOTANICAL JOURNEY
Kraut Walk
Gängeviertel Birthday
Gängeviertel, Hamburg

24.10. – 27.10. | 2024
FLUCTOPLASMA
Festival for art, discourse and diversity
Hamburg

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