Julia Scher

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Surveillance society and the predominating principles of authority and control are the focus of Julia Scher’s work. Just as important, however, are related questions of identity and society. For over three decades, her installations and series of works have subverted and upended security systems designed to control both public and private space.

News:

Julia Scher

included in
Forêt (Sceptique)
An exhibition in the Bavarian Forest
August 4 – October 13, 2024

Julia Scher

included in
Digital Capture: Southern California and the Origins of the Pixel-based Image World
UCR ARTS, Riverside, CA, USA
September 21, 2024 – February 2, 2025

Julia Scher

included in
Tuning In – Acoustique de l’émotion
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva
October 3 2024 – August 24, 2025

Julia Scher

included in
Dreams of an Owl, Who the Bær and the Wounded Planet
Kunsthalle Bielefeld
November 30, 2024 – February 23, 2025

Julia Scher

included in
Exhibition of the donation of Fondation Antoine de Galbert – collection Jean Chatelus
Centre Pompidou, Paris
March 2025

Publications:

R.S.I.
Julia Scher
Kunsthalle Gießen, Kunsthalle Zürich, Museum Abteiberg, MAMCO Geneva
Editor: Nadia Ismail / Kunsthalle Gießen and Matthias Kliefoth / DISTANZ
English/German
Dimensions: 24 × 28 cm
256 pages, 180 color images, softcover with flaps
1. edition August 2023
ISBN 978-3-95476-488-4

Exhibitions:

ameratherm
ultra cooking lab
Julia Scher
August 30 – October 26, 2024

I Call It Home, My Hell
Rosa Aiello, Matthias Groebel, Markus Saile, Julia Scher, Type 42
February 24 – April 13, 2024
Hosted by Bel Ami, Los Angeles

Hochsicherheitsgesellschaft
Julia Scher
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
March 26 – August 20, 2023

Maximum Security Society
Julia Scher
Kunsthalle Zurich
October 8 – January 15, 2023

The Ecology of Visibility
Julia Scher
June 4 – July 4, 2020

I’ll Be Gentle, No Consent
Julia Scher
June 30 – August 25, 2018

Filzengraben Boulevard
Julia Scher
Online Lecture Performance
November 29, 2020, 2 pm (EST) / 8 pm (CET)

Art Cologne
Julia Scher
Joint presentation with Esther Schipper
April 11 – 14, 2019

HAUS
Horst Ademeit, Rosa Aiello, Henri Chopin, Whitney Claflin, Cédric Eisenring, Tobias Madison, Sam Pulitzer, Julia Scher
curated in collaboration with Cédric Eisenring
September 7 – October 26, 2019

copy g_ods
Julia Scher, Melike Kara, Yves Scherer
November 13, 2015 – January 9, 2016

Civetta, 2024
Marble; 101 x 35,5 × 34,5 cm

Pakhet, 2024
Marble; 101 x 35,5 × 34,5 cm

Pakhet, 2024 (detail)
Marble; 101 x 35,5 × 34,5 cm

Iosif Shklovsky, 2024
Convex mirror, telescope, battery holder; 59 cm ø 100 cm

Iosif Shklovsky, 2024 (detail)
Convex mirror, telescope, battery holder; 59 cm ø 100 cm

Heavy Planet, 2024
Painted aluminium, surveillance cameras, cabling, CD, monitor; 22 cm ø 100 cm

Toxic Walk, 1983/84
Acrylic, watercolor and charcoal on paper; 22,5 x 33 cm

Art Düsseldorf, 2024
Booth of Drei, Cologne

Maximum Security Society
Kunsthalle Zurich, 2022

Predictive Engineering, 1993
Surveillance cameras, monitors, brackets, time-lapse recorder, video switchers, fake feeds, audio track, warning tape, yellow-black plastic balls, cables, computer graphics, text; Various dimensions (installation view: Kunsthalle Zurich, 2022)

Discipline Masters, 1988
Digital video transferred from original Betamovie and U-Matic NTSC (color, sound), 4:3 ratio; 00:03:44 (installation view: Kunsthalle Zurich, 2022)

Maximum Security Society
Kunsthalle Zurich, 2022

Wonderland
Maison Populaire, Montreuil, 2022

1 (Greyhound Chair), 2022
Dental chair, racing belt, candle, spray paint

2 (Greyhound Chair), 2022
Dental chair, racing belt, candle, spray paint

3 (Greyhound Chair), 2022
Dental chair, racing belt, candle, spray paint

Rhine Race, 1981
Acrylic, charcoal, collage on cardboard; 55 × 108 cm

Julia Scher, Gabriele, 2022
Marble; 40 × 76 × 30 cm

Greta, 2022
Marble; 40 × 76 × 30 cm

Planet Greyhound
Kunsthalle Gießen, 2022

Infoscreen at bus station somewhere near Planet Greyhound, 2022
Single channel video, sound; 00:23:00; installation view: Kunsthalle Gießen, 2022

Arrivals and Departures (East Sector), 2022
Three screens, security camera, cables; various dimensions; installation view: Kunsthalle Gießen, 2022

Delta (#18), 2020
Concrete mix coated insulation board; 60 × 40 cm

HAUS
Drei, Cologne, 2019

Atelier Trier, 1991
Four surveillance cameras, five b/w surveillance monitors, brackets, switchers, character generator, media player, cables, wires, power strips, video footage digitized from VHS; Various dimensions (installation view: Drei, Cologne, 2019)

HAUS
Drei, Cologne, 2019

Computer Niche (Transgressions), 1993/2019
Wall niche, white walls, wire mesh fence, cube monitor, vintage table, translation of an originally English text by the artist that she presented at "Transgressions Within The White Cube: Re-Considering Inter-Relationships Between Site, Object, Installation, Identity, and the Socio-Political", a panel with Mark Dion, Renée Green, Sean Landers, Lois Nesbitt, and Julia Scher, organized and moderated by Joshua Decter at The School of Visual Arts, New York, November 1992; Loop; Various dimensions (installation view: Drei, Cologne, 2019)

Security By Julia X, 1991
Camouflage-painted desk, chair, monitors, mini surveillance cameras, video printer, printing paper rolls, signage, switchers, guard hat, playback video, time-lapse video recorder, brackets, Fingermatrix Biometric ID system, cables, wires, power strips; 240 × 180 × 210 cm

Glückshaube, 2005
Marble; 17 × 28 × 29 cm

American Tanks, 2001
Gas cylinders with audio and video components; Various dimensions

American Promises
Ortuzar Projects, New York, 2019

Mama Bed, 2003
Metal bed frame with mattress, colour 2 TFT LCD Monitors, audio recorder, 3 DCP colour CCD cameras, security video recorder, VCR player, tapes; Various dimensions (installation view: Ortuzar Projects, New York, 2019)

Discipline Masters, 1998
Digital video transferred from Betacam (from original U-Matic NTSC), color, sound; 4:3 ratio (installation view: Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2018)

Mama Bed, 2003
Metal bed frame with mattress, colour 2 TFT LCD Monitors, audio recorder, 3 DCP colour CCD cameras, security video recorder, VCR player, tapes; Various dimensions

Mothers Under Surveillance, 1993
Live camera, switcher, nineteen-inch monitor and bracket, cable, one DVD for fake feed A&B; Various dimensions

Girl Dog (Hybrid), 2005
Marble; 76 × 24 × 43 cm

American Promises
Ortuzar Projects, New York, 2019

Information America, 1995
information and warning signage, desk, 3 black-and-white surveillance cameras, lenses, transformers and brackets, 6 monitors, 5 monitor brackets, 2 homing bridging switchers, time-lapse recorder, character generator, Amiga computer, VHS playback, cables; Various dimensions

Wonderland
Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2018

Jodi, 1996-97
C-Print on Fujiflex; 36 × 30 cm (unframed)

Wonderland
Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2018

Grace, 1996-97
C-Print on Fujiflex; 36 × 30 cm (unframed)

Brandon and Jodi, 1996-97
C-Print on Fujiflex; 36 × 30 cm (unframed)

Delta
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, 2018

Delta (#3), 2018
Concrete mix coated insulation board, monitor, camera, cables, LEDs; 120 × 60 cm

Delta (#9), 2018
Concrete mix coated insulation board; 120 × 60 cm

Delta
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, 2018

Delta (#13), 2018
Concrete mix coated insulation board, resistors; 260 × 60 cm (installation view: Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen 2018)

Delta
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen 2018

Delta (Radio), 2018
Five Amazon Alexas, fake Alexa, cables, sound; Various dimensions (installation view: Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, 2018)

Delta (Radio), 2018
Five Amazon Alexas, fake Alexa, cables, sound; Various dimensions (detail)

Security Landscape of the Year, 2002
Insulation board, aluminium frame, camera, camera bracket, screen, wires, thread, knife; 60 × 145 × 10 cm (installation view: Drei, Cologne, 2018)

Security Landscape of the Year, 2002
Insulation board, aluminium frame, camera, camera bracket, screen, wires, thread, knife; 60 × 145 × 10 cm (detail)

I'll Be Gentle, No Consent
Drei, Cologne, 2018

Voyeur's Corridor, 1991/2018
Fake wall, light signage; 328 × 588 × 62 cm (installation view: Drei, Cologne, 2018)

I'll Be Gentle, No Consent
Drei, Cologne, 2018

I'll Be Gentle [IBG], 1991
Archive material: Exhibition view, photography; 30 × 40 cm

I'll Be Gentle, No Consent, 2018
Exhibition poster; DIN A1

I'll Be Gentle, No Consent
Drei, Cologne, 2018

I'll Be Gentle [IBG], 1991/2018
Archive material: Time Lapse Recording; 01:57:18, loop (video still)

Voyeur's Corridor, 1991/2018
Fake wall, light signage; 328 × 588 × 62 cm (installation view: Drei, Cologne, 2018)

copy g_ods
Drei, Cologne, 2015

Lip Sync'd 1986-2015, 1986-2015
Single-channel_video, colour, sound; 00:16:35, loop

Julia & Butch, 1992
C-print; 27,5 × 35 cm (unframed)