Berlin, Germany
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Julius Weiland is best know for his glass sculptures which he creates by accumulating glass pieces like for example glass tubes, glass strings or flasks. Often using manufactured glass, he is also using hand made elements from blown glass he is letting produce in a hot glass studio in Berlin. The key element in his work is that he fuses the elements with heat and deforms the original pieces in this process.
His works are part of...
Julius Weiland is best know for his glass sculptures which he creates by accumulating glass pieces like for example glass tubes, glass strings or flasks. Often using manufactured glass, he is also using hand made elements from blown glass he is letting produce in a hot glass studio in Berlin. The key element in his work is that he fuses the elements with heat and deforms the original pieces in this process.
His works are part of museum collections world wide - most recently a work was added to the contemporary glass collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
What is it about your studio space that inspires you?
The heat of the kiln.
What sounds, scents and sights do you encounter while in your studio?
The clicking of glass, the red glowing glass when it's hot.
What is your favourite material to work with? How has your use of it evolved throughout your practice?
Glass. From static works to more and more liveliness and motion.
What themes do you pursue?
chaos, structures, transparency, obscurity, oddness and elegance
If you could install your art absolutely anywhere, where would that be?
In a room filled with daylight.
2018
Etienne Gallery, Oisterwijk, NL
2017
Dekor und Deformation, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin
Cluster and Contour, Lorch + Seidel Contemporary, Berlin
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2017
„Une Passion Partagée – La Collection Gigi & Marcel Burg“, MusVerre, Sars-Poteries, France
„EisWasserGlas“, glass collection Hans Hansen, Gewerbe Museum Winterthur, Switzerland
2014
„Trends in Contemporary Glass Art“, Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China
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Glass Museum Ebeltoft, Denmark
Kunstsammlungen Veste Coburg, Coburg, Germany
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Lorch + Seidel Contemporary | http://www.lorch-seidel.de/
Julius Weiland - Dekor und Deformation, Mies van der Rohe Haus (Hrsg.), Verlag Form & Zweck, Berlin, 2017
Julius Weiland - High Glide, Museum Kunstpalast (Hrsg.), Düsseldorf, 2009
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