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JULIA ZELIG

Founder and Artist[email protected]Instagram @juliazelig

Julia Zelig (b. 1994) is a Spanish interdisciplinary artist working across performance, painting, and film. Her practice investigates the phenomenological relationship between consciousness and material processes, examining how the interior landscape takes form through acts of making. Approaching artistic production as a site where psychological, physical, and environmental forces converge, she explores how gesture, duration, and material resistance shape both the work itself and the conditions of perception from which it emerges.
Her work approaches artistic practice as a search for truth through direct experience. While her earlier work centered on performance and the body as the primary medium of inquiry, her recent practice has shifted toward painting as a site of material investigation. Through experimentation with surfaces, pigments, and physical processes, she examines how matter records transformation, treating material not as a passive support but as an active collaborator in the production of meaning. Her paintings function as events rather than representations, where perception, the body, and material continuously shape one another.

Her film El Almendro was showcased at MACBA, Barcelona (2024), and her performance works 'Composition I' and 'コンポジション II [Composition II]', presented as part of the Composition Series, were exhibited in Tokyo (2026). She also presented Impressions, a series of paintings exploring the resilience of washi paper. As screenwriter of Press Home To Unlock, her work was presented at the mira.mov film festival in 2021.

Alongside her artistic practice, Zelig curated exhibitions and cultural programming in London through WE-RE Collective (2017) and KOCIDO Studio (2020–2022). Zelig is also the creator and host of Nuevas Mitologías, a video podcast exploring contemporary art, philosophy, and creative processes. Her creative writing has been published by METAL (2019). Her work has been featured in the Spanish press, including El País and El Periódico.

EXHIBITIONS & GROUP SHOWS

IMPRESSIONS

Painting series

Curated by The Sarau, exhibited at BnA_WALL hotel. Tokyo, 2026

コンポジション II (Composition II)

Performance / Film

Cinettica Fashion & Art Film Festival, Tokyo, 2026.

THE NEST

Installation

Solo Exhibition, Tokyo, 2026

Composition I

Performance, 10’.