Julien Hübsch
During his residency at the Fonderie Darling, Julien Hübsch's project Sometimes in the Fall explores the temporality of urban spaces as they change function with the seasons. He analyzes how this phenomenon affects the visual identity of the urban landscape and the areas these spaces occupy. Julien Hübsch plans to study the remnants and fragments of past projects, such as the partially erased murals on rue Mont-Royal, and to recontextualize the history of these urban interventions, which seem to serve only as temporary embellishments. Each season, however, they become something totally different, distancing themselves from the artistic context in which they were created. He deduces that places that were conceived with artistic ideas in mind, become places of practical value. This kind of analysis opens the door to multiple possibilities of documentation and translation at the heart of the artist's practice.
Julien Hübsch's work revolves around urban space and its alteration by human presence. He examines how acts of vandalism are treated in certain areas, and how temporality is a determining factor in the perception of the urban landscape. With this in mind, he analyzes not only the most common scenes in urban space, such as construction sites, but also Luxembourg's major industrial sites steeped in history.
Using found objects extracted directly from these spaces, he researches and develops bodies of work that oscillate between sculpture, painting, environment, archive and installation. His process is guided by his eye for composition and color, as well as by the haptic qualities of found materials. This symbiosis results in fragmented assemblages and combinations that function as painterly interventions and contemporary witnesses to abstract urban space.
Biography
Julien Hübsch was born in 1995 in the industrial south of Luxembourg and currently lives and works between Luxembourg and Germany. He studied at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, the Kunsthochschule in Mainz and the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. In 2023, he graduated in Shannon Bool's “expanded painting” class for his “revisited” project, based on research into a major industrial site in southern Luxembourg that was one of the main catalysts for the region's development in the 20th century. Julien Hübsch's work has been exhibited in galleries and institutions in Berlin, Frankfurt, New York, Luxembourg and Mainz, among others, and is included in the collections of public museums in Luxembourg. He was also resident at the Cité des Arts in Paris in 2024. Since 2022, he has been represented by the Reuter Bausch art gallery in Luxembourg.
Recent exhibitions
| 2024 | Metzeschmelz: revisited, solo exhibition, Baustelle Schaustelle, Essen, DE Tracing/a recollection, solo exhibition, CAPE, Ettelbrück, LU walls/origins/replacements, solo exhibition, Centre d’art Dominique Lang, Dudelange, LU Thirties:Colour codes, group exhibition, Kunsthalle Trier, Trier, DE Grober Unfug, group exhibition, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, DE KEEP RUNNING_Experimente V.I, group exhibition, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst Roland Phleps, Freiburg, DE FOREVER AFTER, group exhibition, Reuter Bausch Art Gallery, LU |
| 2023 | Experimente V_Spuren, group exhibition, Galerie van der Koelen, Mainz, DE * Passe-Partout, group exhibition, LIAR NYC, New York, USA walls/origins/replacements, solo exhibition, Cité des Arts Paris, Studio 1410, Paris, FR revisited, solo exhibition, Kunsthochschule Mainz, DE |