operating as a bridge between a multitude of divides.
Juli Bierich is a German-Japanese artist based in Antwerp. Her artistic performances explore the ‘In between’ of public and personal spaces, using various mediums, with a focus on wearable pieces. The body is serving as a necessary component to her work and can be regarded as a tool, that leaves and is also left with, traces of these live actions, functioning as a documentary canvas.
Julie Bierich graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and won the Art Antwerp Graduation Prize in 2024. She exhibited her project Brace, brace, at M HKA in collaboration with Emma Mann.
mountaincutters (b. 1990) is a hybrid identity, an artist’s collective working in Brussels. With a focus on in-situ sculpture, they draw on the connection between human beings and the environments they inhabit. Their steel structures, glass elements, ceramics, fabrics and organic materials, as well as their poems and copper circuits form temporary ecosystems, in which energy is channeled between the human, the organic and the inanimate. Their work has been presented in solo exhibitions show at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2023); Meessen Gallery, Brussels (2024); Centre d’Art Neuchatel (2022); La Verrière Fondation Hermes, Brussels (2021); and in group shows in different institutions such as Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, (2021); Kindred Spirit, Lisbon (2024); Kyiv Biennal, Vienna (2023). They are part of collections such as Plateforme 10 — Mudac, Lausanne, Middelheim museum & collection of the Flemish Community, Antwerp, Collection du FRAC PACA, Marseille.
CASTOR develops a program of duo exhibitions and events that join artists from different contexts, connecting organisations and audiences across the country and beyond.
More about the exhibition and opening will follow soon. Stay tuned!
A big thank you to IKA, who are making their spaces available.
During the following month, the CASTOR team will further refine its organisational structure and prepare its first projects during a residency at celador.