Julia Münstermann German, b. 1977

Julia Münstermann's paintings deal with light and problems of visualisation. Her layers of colour produce a fleeting shimmer, a surface that on the one hand creates a sense of depth, but on the other confronts the viewer with an impenetrable barrier; a hermetic refusal of familiar reference. The lack of a central motif makes the seamless transitions and infinite depth of these images disorientating and rather reinforces the feeling that we are dealing with an absolute non-representation. And yet we stand there, alone, strangely affected, staring into their cool emptiness.

Münstermann (born in Cologne) is currently a scholarship holder of the Stiftung Kunstfonds. She studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Prof Jörg Immendorff and Prof Jan Dibbets. She then received her MFA at De Ateliers 63 in Amsterdam. Recently, she has also taken part in residencies in New York and Beijing.