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Julika Rudelius
Artist's Name: Julika Rudelius
Preferred medium: video / film
birth year: 1968
Nationality: DE
City: Amsterdam

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For her video installation Forever, Julika Rudelius (*1968 in Cologne, lives in New York) "casted" five older women who struck her by a certain type of beauty - a beauty marked by an elitist lifestyle and the concomitant opportunities of prolonging beauty and youth. All five women are interviewed in front of swimming pools in the Hamptons, the summer resort of the rich south of New York. We do not hear the questions asked by the artist, but we hear the both stereotypical and very personal answers of the women with regard to beauty and happiness. Rudelius shows the recorded monologues on two projection screens. The subtitles with the text are shown on both screens, while sometimes there are no pictures appearing on one of them and, at other times, the subsequent question is being shown. We witness a dysfunctional dialogue which emphasises the generality of what is being said. We hear and read things like "actually it is all about being happy" or "inner beauty reflects on the outside" and feel reminded of counselling jargon or TV soaps. At second glance, however, the intimate feelings and vulnerability of the women become more perceptible - particularly in the moments when they make Polaroid photos of themselves with a self-timer. We do not see the photographs, but we see them posing for them. "Forever" confronts us with three different types of viewing: viewing through a video camera, viewing as a recipient, and self-viewing with a Polaroid. We are confronted with the transience of the "image" of womanhood, which is a complex social construction subject to ever new definitions. (Kunsthaus Baselland)

important exhibitions from Julika Rudelius

Exhibition Location City Country Date
6th Gwangju Biennale 2006 Gwangju Biennale Gwangju KR 08.09.2006
Survival Techniques: Narratives of Resistance MoCP- The Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago US 13.04.2012
TRUST - Media City Seoul 2010 Seoul Museum of Art Seoul KR 06.09.2010
e-flux video rental Portikus Frankfurt DE 04.09.2005
The Possibility of an Island Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA) Miami US 04.12.2008
Schlagwörter und Sprachgewalten Kunsthaus Baselland Basel CH 15.09.2012
Über die Metapher des Wachstums Kunsthaus Baselland Basel CH 21.05.2011
H-BOX Artsonje Center Seoul KR 25.02.2011
das ist die Lebenswelt NAK - Neuer Aachener Kunstverein Aachen DE 09.01.2010
Über die Metapher des Wachstums Frankfurter Kunstverein Frankfurt DE 26.05.2011

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Julika Rudelius:

Galerie Reinhard Hauff

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Julika Rudelius

De Hallen
Frans Hals Museum
Netherlands Media Art Institute
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam