Julia Martin
born 1976 in Berlin, Germany
lives in Seydisfjordur, Iceland
2020 - date Co-director at Skaftfell Center for Visual Art
2015 - 2020 Residency program and project manager at Skaftfell Center for Visual Art, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
2014 PhD (Art), Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
2006 Master of Fine Art in 'Art, Space, Nature', Edinburgh College of Art, UK
2003 Dipl.-Ing. Landscape Architecture, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Exhibitions
List i Ljosi art festival, Seydisfjordur (2021); 'Skel (Shell)', installation
Pirpa, Copenhagen, Denmark (2018); 'Berjamo / Rhubarb Archeology', solo exhibition
Skaftfell Center for Visual Art, Seydisfjordur, Iceland (2018); 'Farfuglar. Birds of Passage', curatorial project with Skaftfell
Skaftfell Center for Visual Art, Seydisfjordur, Iceland (2015-16); 'Frontiers of Solitude', curatorial project
Skolska Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (2016); 'Frontiers of Solitude', group exhibition
Skaftfell Center for Visual Art, Seydisfjordur, Iceland (2014); 'RO RO', group exhibition
Art Institute Shibukawa, Japan (2013); 'Flow and Arrest', with Miriam Walsh
Das Gift, Berlin (2012); Group exhibition, 'Every day is a sad day', curated by Eli Skatvedt
Skaftfell Center for Visual Art, Seydisfjordur, Iceland (2012); Open studio
Bookshop projectspace, Seydisfjordur, Iceland (2011); 'A part', video installation
Shetland Museum and Archives, Lerwick (2010); 'Sikurluk', group exhibition, responding to fieldwork in Greenland
Art Institute Shibukawa, Japan (2009); 'Camera Infinita', curatorial project and group exhibition
Edinburgh Art Festival, UK (2009); 'Camera Infinita', curatorial project and group exhibition
Edinburgh Art Festival, UK (2008); 'Infinity and Perspective', curatorial project and group exhibition
Deutzer Bruecke, Cologne, Germany (2007); group exhibition 'Ueber/m Fluss'
Goethe Institut, Glasgow, UK (2006); duo exhibition with Johanna Pagels, supported by DAAD
JDM Foundation, Chicago, USA (2006); Open studio
Publications
'Ecocritical art in times of climate change: Tracing ecological relationships between humans and nonhumans through the hyperextension of objects.' Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2014.
Presentations
Artist talk at List i Ljosi art festival, February 2020.
Speaker at Frontiers of Solitude symposium, Prague, Czech Republic, February 2016.
Speaker at Northern Research Forum, Akureyri, Iceland, August 2013. Conference on 'Climate change in Northern territories'
Speaker at Arctic Frontiers conference, Tromso, Norway, January 2013. Session on 'Contested Landscapes - Lost ecologies'.
Speaker at 'Emergent critical environments: where next for ecology and the humanities?' ASLE UK Postgraduate Conference, 2011, Queen Mary University, London.
Speaker at 'Relational Participation in Public Matters of Concern', RMIT Roundtable 2011, Technische Universität Berlin.
Speaker at 'Publicness', Goldsmiths Research Symposium, 2011, Whitechapel Gallery, London.
Speaker at 'New Notes on Sculpture', Goldsmiths Research Symposium, 2011, University of London.
Speaker at 'Documentation', Goldsmiths Research Symposium, 2009, University of London.