Julia Wegat

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Julia Wegat (* 1969 in Dortmund ) is a German painter and media artist.

Made famous by the sometimes bold and emotional overpainting of her own realistic pictures, Wegat also gained recognition for conceptual, artistic projects with strong references to social reality ( SPIT , totenprojekt ).

Life

Julia Wegat was a student of the Austrian hyper-realist Gottfried Helnwein and she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Ben Willikens . The major in New Media allowed her to experiment with various theatrical and multimedia performances , as well as first film work. During her studies she took a. a. Participated in a workshop organized by Christo and Jeanne-Claude organized by the Academy .

Projects

She obtained her diploma in 2001 with the Schönheitengalerie project , an adaptation of the historical gallery of beauties of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, which could be seen in Munich in Nymphenburg Palace . Various special permits and exemption regulations made it possible to show Wegat's Schönheitengalerie for the first time as a contemporary work in the historical setting at the original location in Nymphenburg Palace in direct confrontation with the model. The much-visited exhibition quickly gained Wegat national recognition. In 2003 he worked with Max Mannheimer (Ben Jakov) , which culminated in the creation of a jointly developed painting cycle, which, owned by the Jewish Museum in Munich , contributed to the fundraising for the construction of the Jewish cultural center. With this painting project, Wegat began a new variant of overpainting, with which she had already come to the public as a more procedural complex of works.

More work

In order to successfully deal with broader subject areas and to map the structure of the surrounding structures of social marginalized layers, Wegat developed a process-based work process, the history of which is part of the finished work. This is how works such as men’s room - women’s room (in prison, with Kaline Versmold), totenprojekt (about people who died anonymously) and asylum (with minors and accompanied refugees) were created. Her award-winning film SPIT with Turkish youths from Munich's hotspot Neuperlach , which was produced in 2005, achieved nationwide importance .
In 2007 the extreme mountaineer Reinhold Messner became aware of Wegat's work, for whose museums she has since implemented various concepts.

Julia Wegat lives and works in Halle / Saale and Munich.

Exhibitions

  • 2017 LIBERTAS HAUS blog
  • 2017 Villa Rabe, Halle / Saale, asylum
  • 2016 Constitutional complaint: Prohibition of one of the pictures from the series of fairy tale pictures
  • 2015 JVA Magdeburg, men's room-women's room
  • 2013 Willi Sitte Gallery Merseburg
  • 2013 Villa Rabe, Halle / Saale, fairy tale pictures
  • 2012 Art Pavilion, Munich
  • 2010 libertas haus, reconstruction of a 19th century manor near Halle / Leipzig and its history as a work-in-progress
  • 2008 State Museum of Ethnology, Munich , asylum
  • 2008 Messner Mountain Museum , Bolzano
  • 2008 Galerie Kunstraum Erlangen, friends and neighbors
  • 2007 Messner Mountain Museum Ortles, solo exhibition requiem
  • 2006 Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt, SPIT as part of the exhibition "Today's Youth"
  • 2006 JVA Kaisheim, the wall
  • 2006 JVA Aichach, women's room ; JVA Kaisheim, men's room-women's room
  • 2005 Galerie Kunstraum Erlangen, foreign home
  • 2004 Ben Jakov Paintings , City Museum Munich
  • 2003 St. Vincent Monastery, Hildesheim and Kunstraum Erlangen gallery, woman for life
  • 2002 Ben Jakov Paintings , Herkulessaal Munich
  • 2002 performance alter ego , Glyptothek Munich ; to the long night of the museums
  • 2001 Beauty Gallery, Nymphenburg Palace, Munich
  • 1997 Tumulka art bunker, Munich, exhibition and performance transit
  • 1997 Performance And with us happiness , Wolnzach

Prizes and awards

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Wegat, Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and media artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund