Julia Adelgren has a kinship with the natural world. Adelgren works with intuition and spiritual drive, taking inspiration from everyday life, her resulting mixed media paintings possess an otherworldly timelessness. Featuring anonymous figures set within nocturnal scenes, recent paintings incorporate sweeping vistas and areas of pooling luminous pigment, furthering her exploration of darkness and shadows.
Julia Adelgren (b. 1990, Stockholm) lives and works in Copenhagen. She attended the Bergen Academy of Arts, graduating in 2016, before pursuing her studies further in Dusseldorf, at the Kunstakademie, graduating in 2020. Selected shows include: Act IV - The Balcony, Ombrella, Copenhagen, Denmark (2023); Dragonfly Den, MAMOTH, London, UK (2022); A Room of One's Own, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2022); Coming To Voice. Absolvent_innen der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf 2020 K21, Düsseldorf, Germany (2021) Les Danses Nocturnes, Spread museum, Entrevaux, France (2021); The Watery Realm, MAMOTH, London, UK (2021); Underworld, Abschluss Rundgang Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany (2020);I'll be Your Mirror, Kunsthaus Essen, Germany (2018); Vertrauen. Bilder der Klasse Tomma Abts, KIT, Düsseldorf, Germany (2017); Veins Blue, Galleri Bokboden, Bergen, Norway (2016), amongst others.
Courtesy MAMOTH, London.
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