Berlin, Germany
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Published 08/11/2015 | Updated 14/04/2019
Julius Weiland is best known 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.
Besides his glass...
Julius Weiland is best known 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.
Besides his glass works he is also creating two-dimensional work. His recent paintings are a series of portraits of close friends, colleagues, family or his girlfriend, carried out in a simplified style, but keeping the characteristics of the depicted person.
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
Glas und Grafik, Europäisches Museum für Modernes Glas, Rödental / Coburg
Etienne Gallery, Oisterwijk, NL
2017
Dekor und Deformation, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin
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2019
Le Verre en Mouvement, MusVerre, Sars-Poteries, France
2018
Kunst und Wissenschaft, Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen
Heldenhaft und Unzerbrechlich (mit Andreas Amrhein), Galerie 21.06, Ravensburg
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Frederiksberg Museerne, Frederiksberg / Copenhagen, Denmark
Glass Museum Ebeltoft, Denmark
Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Coburg, 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
2011, 1st prize, Jutta Cuny-Franz Award
2004, Gold Prize, International Exhibition of Glass, Kanazawa
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