Julia Schmitz
Julia Schmitz (1993, Amsterdam) is a lens-based artist exploring the relationship between humans and images. Starting from an image or sentence that intrigues her, she uses montage methods to experiment with ways of seeing and storytelling. Her works mostly revolve around themes of sexuality, womanhood and the nature of relationships. Through a combination of personal, historical, and scientific narratives, she finds unexpected connections amidst seemingly unrelated circumstances. Her research includes interrogating the documentary genre and deconstructing cinematic languages, by which she extracts tools to shape her image-stories, films and installations.
She studied at the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague) and completed her master’s in Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths University (London). During both studies, she experimented with film installations and her fascination for the construction of reality and representation in images.
She is part of the art collective Touchy Studios and co-founder of Touchy Productions, a production house operating from The Hague and Berlin. Next to that, she’s a producer at Nest art space.
