Julia Zelig is a Spanish interdisciplinary artist, curator, and art historian based in Tokyo, working across performance, film, and painting. Her work investigates the relationship between the intangible and the physical, treating surfaces and materials as living records of time, bodily gesture, and internal transformation. Driven by Jungian psychology, she explores symbolic representations of the feminine as a means to navigate distinct facets of the self that resonate with wider collective archetypes. At its core, her practice is a spiritual search for truth and inner liberation, exploring the nature of consciousness through the physical act of embodying and making as her methodology. 

As a curator, Zelig translates this inquiry into ecosystems where art functions as a catalyst for community transformation. Built on the certainty that humanity evolves through interrelationships and shared spaces, her curatorial projects channel the collective unconscious into tangible, spatial encounters. Drawing on her international project management background, she designs environments that foster cross-cultural dialogue, collective reflection, and direct, transformative engagement with contemporary art.

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, curator 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’.

Roses & Castles, Tokyo, 2026

El Almendro

Short Film,  3’.

Contributing to 108 Days by Lydia Ourahmane. Curated by Ferran Valdés Torroella.

MACBA, Barcelona, 2024

SYMBIOSIS

Performance & Exhibition Curation

Kocido Studio, London, 2022

Strangers in the Night

Performance, Video Showcase & Exhibition Curation

'The Incident Vol. I.'  Kocido Studio, London, 2021

The Incident Vol.1

Performance & Exhibition Curation

Kocido Studio, London, 2022

These People Don’t Exist

Espai Txema, Barcelona, 2016

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

Metabolismos [Upcoming]

Curated by Julia Zelig

Tokyo, 2026

Nuevas Mitologías

Curator, Project Lead & Host

London & Barcelona, 2022-2025

Kocido Studio 

Curator & Producer

London, 2020-2023 

WE-RE Collective

Installation & Exhibition Curation

SHED, London, 2021

EDUCATION

BA History of Art

Goldsmiths College, London, UK

2020

The Politics of Aesthetics
King's College, London, UK

2021

Photography and Audiovisual Creation

IDEP Barcelona, Spain

2017

Scenography for Performance 

Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain

2014

Marketing & PR

UAB, Barcelona

2012