b. 1991 Tver, Russia
lives and works in Vienna
Julia Belova experiments with the religious aesthetic of the Baroque and reinterprets the corporeality of this period with queer feminist approaches. Her sculptures are woven into a performative practice of self-destruction and transformation, addressing the theme of transience. A queer immigrant, the artist adopts an aesthetic that is exotic to Russian culture.
Education
2016 – n/a Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Prof. Julian Göthe)
2019 Royal Institute of Art Stockholm (exchange semester)
2015 BA, MFA St.Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design
Teaching
2023 Guest lecturer, New Design University St Pölten
2022 Guest lecturer, University of Arts Linz
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Himmelblau , WIENSTATION night club, hosted by Rudolf Leeb Gallery, Vienna
2022 Vienna Contemporary Zone1, presented by Rudolf Leeb Gallery, curated by Tjaša Pogačar, Vienna
2022 Snakes have many Faces, Sothebys Artist Quarterly, Vienna
2022 Pacification, Sevkabel Port, curated by Anna Zavediy, St Petersburg
2021 Ich Dich Nicht, Rudolf Leeb Gallery, Vienna
2021 Sincerely, FFTN gallery, curated by Veronika Nikiforova, St Petersburg
2018 Mellow Yellow Swallows Bellow, StoneOvenHouse, Turin
2018 Luxurious Oystes, Stern Studio Gallery, Vienna
2016 Paradise, St Peter and Paul Church (permanent exposure), St Petersburg
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2023 On the New. Viennese Scenes and Beyond, Belvedere 21, Vienna
2023 Sieben Todsünden, curated by Andreas Hoffer, Kunsthalle Krems
2023 Life on its own, Kunstraum Schwaz
2023 Down the Glitter Hole, Young Curators Club, Vienna
2023 Women Life Freedom, charity exhibition , ANN Verein, Vienna
2022 I put on my rose-colored glasses to see the world in black, curated by Ilia Kronchev-Ivanov, Angelina Braun, Nadia Kovaleva, "Beriozka" Gallery, hosted by Interval Art , St Petersburg
2022 Proximity and Distance, curated by Katerina Dimitrova, Seestadt Tower and Seestadt Halle, Vienna
2022 Skulpturgarten, Parallel & Never at Home, Palais Auersperg, Vienna
2022 BLASFEMinISTKI, curated by Iwona Demko and Renata Kopyto, Dom Norymberski, Krakow
2021 Lebhafte Materie, curated by Jan Gustav Fiedler and Stefanie Winter, Motherboard, Vienna
2021 Liquid Solidity, Projektraum Zieglergasse, Vienna
2020 Hortus Conclusus Sculpture Garden, Schloss 25, Vienna
2019 Sovereignty in Chaos, curated by Camilla Cole (Cole Projects), LLLLLLI Gallery, Vienna
2019 Gamma Festival, collab with Egor Laptarev, Stepan Razin Brewery, St Petersburg
2019 Suspense 2.0, curated by Igor Baranov and Ira Tatarnikova, Sevkabel Port, St Petersburg
2019 This Container has no windows, curated by Annika Eriksson, Royal Institut of Art, Stockholm
2019 Pushing Boundaries, curated by Marcia Kure, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
2019 Neue Wiener Ernsthaftigkeit, Semperdepot, Vienna
2018 How about a Menage a trois? Visuality, Studio H is the Shit, Munich
2018 Facets of Queer, Størpunkt Gallery, Munich
2018 What happend after Kindergarden, Snerk Gallery, Tromsø, Norway
2018 Jeder Jäger Würde Gerne Wissen Wo Der Fasan Sitzt, Stiegenkeller, Vienna
2018 Clitical Talk, Improper Walls, Vienna
2018 Your Pressure is my Pleasure, Fine Arts Academy, Vienna
2017 Graphik Language, Aa Collections, Vienna 2017 In Colors Of Sun and Sky, Mondi, Vienna
2017 Tschau Ragazzi, Akademy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2017 Demystifying Femininity, Improper Walls, Vienna
2017 Upstream!east, Easyupstream, Munich
2016 Scorched Earth Happy Land, Aa Collections, Vienna
2016 Artefact, Dukley Art, Budva, Montenegro
2012 Young Porcelain, Imperial Porcelain Factory Gallery, St Petersburg
Publications
2023 PARNASS Heft 4/2023 September-Dezember
2023 On the New. Viennese Scenes and Beyond , exhibition catalog, Belvedere 21
2023 Vernissage 364/2023
2023 Seven Deadly Sins , exhibition catalog , Kunsthalle Krems
2022 PARNASS Heft 3/2022 September-Dezember
2022 Die Presse , Issue Nr.23.083 2.September 2022
2021 TWIN Magazine London, Issue XXV November
2021 PARNASS Auctions & Fine Arts, Special / Herbst
2021 Les Nouveaux Riches https://www.les-nouveaux-riches.com/julia-belova-ich-dich-nicht/
2020 Galerie Rudolfs Leeb https://www.galerierudolfleeb.at/collections/julia-belova
2020 Les Nouveaux Riches https://www.les-nouveaux-riches.com/ihre-stilelemente-julia-belova/
2020 Salone Interior Magazine Russia, Issue No7/8 (261) July-August
Awards
2020 1st Prize of design and creation of Diversitas Awards 2020, Vienna
2019 3th Prize of “Vzlet VDNH” , Moscow
