These experiences have accompanied me for many years. In the working process they reappear as tactile and structural references. Not as a depiction, but as a translation into material. In this way a connection arises between outer perception and inner image, which manifests through my hands in the form.
I work very intuitively, how a work develops often only becomes clear during the process. My hands take on a guiding role and I find orientation through the material, through experience and trust. Observations, impressions, and inner images flow through my hands and through the material directly into the work.
I do not try to force the material into a fixed form. Instead I listen to its behavior, to resistance, irregularities, and chance. Textures and supposed mistakes become part of the result. In this way the act of making becomes a dialogue between the material and myself. I support and guide without controlling. I set a direction and at the same time leave space for the unexpected.”
Juliana Maurer graduated from the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam (NL) in 2019 with a Master's degree in Fine Arts and Design, and earlier earned a Bachelor's degree in Communication Design in Hamburg.
2026
LUMEN @Schaufenster at Barkow Leibinger
(Berlin, Germany)
2025
A Gesture of Becoming @Forma Gallery
(Berlin, Germany)
2025
New Perspectives @Movimento Gallery
(Milano, Italy)
2025
Formed @Brunnenstrasse 105
(Berlin, Germany)
2024
Vienna Design Week @Café Florida
(Vienna, Austria)
2024
A Matter Of Things @Backhaus Projects
(Berlin, Germany)
2024
Untitled @Brut Gallery
(Bucharest, Romania)
2024
Confluence: The Point At Which Two Worlds Meet @MDW
(Milano, Italy)
2023
Lake Como Design Festival @Villa Olmo
(Como, Italy)
2023
Der Berliner Salon @Kronprinzenpalais
(Berlin, Germany)
2023
Merging And Emergin @Milan Design Week
(Milano, Italy)
2023
Der Berliner Salon @Kantgaragen
(Berlin, Germany)
2022
Ceramic Exhibition @Voostore
(Berlin, Germany)
2022
Movimento X Lake Como Design Festival @Villa Gallia
(Como, Italy)
10 Days Workshop Recidency @Schloss Hollenegg
(Weststeiermark, Austria)
2022
Milan Design Week @Isola Design District
(Milano, Italy)
2022
Groupshow MULTILOGUE @Mouches Volantes
(Cologne, Germany)
2022
Groupshow MULTILOGUE @Gold + Beton
(Cologne, Germany)
2021
Secred Campari @Heckmann-Höfe
(Berlin, Germany)
2021
Dutch Design Week @Foundation We Are
(Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
2020
Moam Generation 2020 @Capital C Amsterdam
(Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
2019
Radical Cut-Up @Looiersgracht 60
(Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
2018
Synthetics Self @Reykjavík International Film Festival
(Reykjavík, Iceland)
2018
Synthetic Self @Art Museum Of Nanjing University Of The Arts
(Nanjing, China)
2018
Kn123 @Melkweg Expo
(Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
2017
Under The Shower – The Gaze @Not In New York
(Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
2016
Aesthetics Of The Invisible @Affenfaust Galerie
(Hamburg, Germany)
2017-2019
Sandberg Intituut – Radical Cut-Up, Master’s Degree Fine Arts
and Design, Amsterdam (Nl)
2014-2015
Shenkar – Engineering. Design. Art, Tel Aviv (Isr)
2012-2016
Hochschule Für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg, Bachelor’s Degree Communication Design, Hamburg (Ger)
SELECTED PRESS
2025 – Gentle Traveller
2025 – Material Encounters: The Dynamics Of Boundaries
2022 – Monopol Magazin Für Kunst Und Leben: Multilogue
2021 – Dutch Design Week
2021 – Gestalten, Creative Pool Project:Mirror Sculpture
2021 – Sight Unseen, Saturday Selects
2020 – Imagining Scenarios Through Art And Design
2020 – Moam Generation
2019 – Mister Motley, Eindexames 2019: Opgang En Needergang
2019 – Metropolis M, “Hello People Of The Future”
2018 – Radcial Cut-Up: Nothing Is Original
2018 – The Radical Cut-Up Reader: No Single Narrative
REPRESENTED BY
Movimento Gallery
Good Sessions
CONTACT
hallo@julianamaurer.de
IG: @julijanamaurer