Julia Schewalie’s works are the result of a process of fragmentation that began on canvas and, since 2009, has led to a gradual dissolution of the figure in her work. To overcome what she saw as the apparent stasis of painting, she experimented with various
materials, such as cement and shellack, and she produced silkscreens inspired by material studies from Art Informel. Through means of sculpture, she ultimately integrated the element of movement into her work in 2010/2011 and produced her first black
paintings.
Julia Schewalie was born in 1988 in Krasilovka, in the region of Pawlodar in the Kazakh SSR, today the Republic of Kazakhstan, and she came to Germany in 1996 when her family was repatriated due to its German heritage. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
from 2009 to 2015 with Anke Doberauer and Hermann Pitz. She graduated with a “Diplom” in Fine Art. Her works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Germany, Russia, Great Britain, Poland, the Netherlands, and Austria. She has not only received two residency fellowships (Center for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, Poland, in 2018 and Vila Paula, Klenová, Czech Republic, 2021), but her works have also been purchased by the Bavarian State Painting Collection in 2017 and 2018. In 2018, she was the winner of the Kunstverein Aichach Art Fellowship.