Julia Katolla
From the teachings of motherhood and new feminine perspectives to unprocessed trauma, a little madness and a great affinity for the surreal and the odd, Julia Katolla oscillates between the beautiful and the ugly, the reasonable and the absurd. In her works, she tends to play with the unpredictable outcomes of less controllable materials while seeking symmetry and balance in the arbitrary. A large portion of Katolla’s works reflects the significant processes motherhood elicits regarding femininity. In her approach towards motherhood she tries to shed a more realistic light on it, to a certain extent counteracting its glorifying depictions throughout history. Even though the issues addressed by her works come from personal experiences, the origins and interconnections of life in its collective sense are explored in a fundamental way.
Katolla (raised in Costa Rica/ based in Germany) is a mixed media artist who received artistic training at the University of Bonn, Germany (2015 - 2017) and the arte fact academy in Bonn, Germany, under the guidance of Volker Altrichter and Prof. Thomas Egelkamp (2019 - 2021). Exhibitions include the galerie asterisk* (2018) and BLINK BRLN gallery (2021) in Berlin, the arte fact academy (2020, 2021) in Bonn, Germany, and The Holy Art Gallery as well as the London Art Biennale (2021) in the UK, where she was recently awarded the “International Confederation of Art Critics Award”.
