Julie Mia
Julie Mia’s (* 1988 in Offenbach/ Main) interdisciplinary practice spans sculpture, painting, photography, and installation, unfolding over extended periods. Rooted in transformation and translation—from analog to digital, object to image, function to symbol—her work begins with everyday materials that she alters and recontextualizes, stripping them of original meaning. Objects become poetic, open forms through processes of layering, erasing, and repainting, reflecting ambiguity and temporality. She employs diverse techniques, including bronze and wax casting, 3D printing, and steelwork, exploring resistance and permanence. Her evolving visual language invites viewers to experience materiality and meaning as fluid, emphasizing the continuous process of change and reinterpretation. Painting plays a central role in her practice, permeating all processes and works: it is both the starting point and recurring focus of her creative process. Her sculptures and installations emerge as thoughtful conceptual extensions that engage with and expand the language of her painting, reflecting a cohesive and evolving artistic vision.
CV
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
Villa Arson, Nizza
Camberwell College of Arts, London
Blütenlese, Paper Positions Vienna, Austria, Upcoming (GS)
Nachtwache, Zentrum für internationale Künste (Zik), Berlin (Duo)
Suspension of Disbelief 2, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf (GS)
Ashton Hall, Galerie 3AP, Frankfurt (S)
3rd International Sculpture Symposium, Wolf-Werk, Darmstadt (GS)
Liminal State, Art Düsseldorf (GS)
bouquet, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf (GS)
Wohnung Lauxtermann Vol. 7, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf (GS)
#4 The Agony And The Ecstasy, 0010, Berlin (GS)
Kunstparcours des Widerstands, Union Areal, Frankfurt a.M. (public sculpture)
Exvoto, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf (S)
Three Bumps, When You’re Calmer, Berlin (GS)
Wohnung Lauxtermann, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf (Project)
Liminal Space, Galerie 3AP Düsseldorf (Duo)
Abriss, Ortstermin Kunstverein Tiergarten, Mindscape Universe (GS)
Ifsixwasnine, Zollamt Galerie, Offenbach am Main (Duo)
Inside Zollamt Studios, Zollamt Galerie, Offenbach am Main (GS)
Clyde & Co LLP Art Award Collection, Aldgate, London (GS)
Exposition Estivale, Villa Arson, Nice
Bildhauer-Symposium SISYPHOS Darmstadt (2025)
Residency (WL), Düsseldorf (2023)
Neustart Kultur, Grant, Berlin (2020)
Studio Grant, Zollamt Studios, Offenbach/Main, Ongoing (2014)
Clyde & Co LLP art award, London (2013)
Goldman Foundation for Art and Culture, Frankfurt a.M.
Lloyds Bank Collection, London
Exhibitions
suspension of disbelief 2
suspension of disbelief 2
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suspension of disbelief 2
suspension of disbelief 2
suspension of disbelief 2
suspension of disbelief 2
suspension of disbelief 2
Ashton Hall
Ashton Hall
Ashton Hall
Ashton Hall
Ashton Hall
Ashton Hall
Ashton Hall
Ashton Hall
Ashton Hall
Ashton Hall
bouquet
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WOHNUNG
LAUXTERMANN
Vol. 7
Joschua Yesni Arnaut, Roberto Barbosa, Joseph Beuys, Willi Bucher, Felix Anatol Findeiß, Jacqueline Hen, Sonja Heim, Steffen Jopp, Nadine Karl, Max Klinger, Helga Kneidl, Carolin Liebl & Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler, Ulrike Markus, Toni Meyer, Julie Mia, Philipp Naujoks, Miriam Schenkirz, Robert Schittko, Wayne Thiebaud, Catharina Szonn, Ellen Wagner, Lara Werth, Sonja Yakovleva
with further objects and contributions by Alex Leo Freier, Monster Mansion, Aleksandra Mir & Tim Griffin
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News
upcoming: participation at Paper Positions Vienna
13. – 16. November, Semper Depot | Booth 18
on view: Julie Mia & R. Aeol „NIGHTWATCH“
Nightwatch, a site-specific installation by Julie Mia in collaboration with R. Aeol, is now on view at the Zentrum für Internationale Künste (ZIK). The conceptual artwork Nightwatch (Nachtwache) explores the interplay of light and darkness within ongoing urban transformation processes.
now open: Julian Heuser, Nadine Karl, Toni Meyer, Julie Mia, and Lara Werth „Suspension of Disbelief 2“
Suspension of Disbelief 2 continues the exploration of perception, illusion, and emotional projection initiated in July 2025 through the work of Julian Heuser, expanding the conceptual framework into a polyphonic group exhibition marking the season’s opening. Curated by Aileen Treusch, the show brings together works who examine and broaden the theme from diverse artistic viewpoints.
upcoming: participation at DC Open
We are excited to announce our participation at DC Open 2025 with the upcoming group exhibition Suspension of disbelief II at our Düsseldorf location. The show features works by Julian Heuser, Nadine Karl, Toni Meyer, Julie Mia and Lara Werth.
now open: Julie Mia „Ashton Hall“
Ashton Hall? A place, a figure, a story – or none of the above? Julie Mia’s second solo exhibition at Galerie 3AP Frankfurt carries a title that functions like an echo. The artist’s work investigates the fragility of meaning – as an aesthetic principle, an existential condition, and a critical commentary on the relationship between image, material, and perception.
Julie Mia participating in the 3rd International Sculpture Symposium
Join us from May 13–17 (daily 5–7 PM), to experience the progress of her work and meet the artists in person. Final Exhibition „Sisyphus the Indefatigable“: Saturday, May 17 (11–7 PM, artist talk: 3 PM) with art historian & curator Claudia Olbrych (Kunstarchiv Darmstadt). Wolf Werke (Halle 109), Landwehrstraße 75-79, 64293 Darmstadt
Art Düsseldorf
Art Düsseldorf opening today with works by Jacqueline Hen, Nadine Karl, Julie Mia, Philipp Naujoks. We cordially inviteyou to visit us at our booth (C03), where we will present a selection of young contemporary artists from our gallery program. Featuring four artistic positions that examine states of transition and transformation. In this liminal space, where nothing is certain but everything is possible, crisis and hope intersect, and past, present, and future merge.
ART DÜSSELDORF
Areal Böhler
Hansaallee 321
40549 Düsseldorf
now open: Roberto Barbosa, Julie Mia and Miriam Schenkirz „bouquet“
bouquet – Roberto Barbosa, Julie Mia and Miriam Schenkirz
Whether carefully arranged or wildly assembled, the motif of the bouquet and the eponymous exhibition reveal social expectations or the pursuit of aesthetic constellations. In analogy to the art of flower arranging, the works by Roberto Barbosa, Julie Mia and Miriam Schenkirz are poetic arrangements that represent a relationship to objects, to themselves or to nature, as well as a feeling that may have moved them during the process of creating them. We look forward to seeing you again.
Julie Mia, vanity, 2024
Permanent installation since 2024, UNION AREAL Frankfurt am Main
„Subverting norms constructing narrative scenarios“
now open: Julie Mia „Exvoto“
The exhibited painting ‚im moment, da die gewißheiten innehalten‘ was created over a period of seven years and is accompanied by a poem selected by Heiner Bastian wich was first published in October 2022 in his poetry collection ‘Der Gedanke der die Welt wiedergewinnt‘.
Wohnung Lauxtermann
The fluid exhibition is open for visitors for the fifth and last time this year until December 15th.
Wohnung Lauxtermann – Residency
We are pleased to announce that the first residency will go to Berlin-based artist Julie Mia.
The exhibition and residency project WOHNUNG LAUXTERMANN, conceived by Galerie 3AP, enables young artists to use the premises at Fürstenwall 74 for their own work and projects to bring this historic address back into the active life of the city.