Julie Stavad

b. 1987
Currently based in Denmark + New York

juliestavad@gmail.com

UPCOMING
Heartland Festival 2023 (DK)
Public commission for Lyshøjskolen, Kolding (DK)

Education
2010-2015 The Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, DK

Solo shows
2022 BEACH-ISM, LIAR NYC, New York, USA
2022 Who is really sharp, Ace Hotel Brooklyn, New York, USA
2022 A large bee crawls out of your shopping bag, solo show, Spanien 19c & Art Week, Aarhus, DK
2022 The King and the Jinn, collaboration/duo show with Eliyah Mesayer, OK Corral, Frederiksberg, DK
2022 I am here for pleasure but it is no fun, O—Overgaden, Copenhagen, DK (with monographic publication and more: link)
2018 Stille stykke. Lille mund, Holstebro Art Museum, Holstebro, DK
2017 The Mobile Sleeve, Charlotte Fogh Gallery, Aarhus, DK
2016 Shooting Spikes To Repel Foes, Tiny Affairs, Copenhagen (Amager Strand), DK
2015 Sit. Actively., Demorummet, Aarhus, DK

Selected group shows
2023 What is this, an exhibition for ants?!, CANTINA, Aarhus, DK
2023 RED / RØD, Vejle Art Museum, Vejle, DK
2022 Afterglow, The Grand Chelsea, New York, USA
2022 Vicarious living, trio show with Lars Worm and Mikkel Carlsen, Mom Artspace, Hamburg, DE
2021 CUP, The Classen Library, Copenhagen, DK
2021 Scrolling into a gentle fall, duo show with Ida Sønder Thorhauge, Ta·da, Copenhagen, DK
2021 ISCP Open Studio Fall, ISCP, New York City, USA
2021 Sculpture to Sculpture, Rundetaarn, Copenhagen, DK
2021 Monuments for a gravestone, Art Sonje, Seoul, KR
2021 Gravmonumenter, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, DK
2020 This is a pre-recorded studio tour at ISCP Open Studio Fall, ISCP, New York City, USA (link)
2020 Interdimensionale II, Gammelgaard, Herlev, DK
2020 Nice to (...), trio show with Hanne Friis (NO) and Sigurdur Gudjónsson (IS), Kunsthalle Seinäjoki, Seinäjoki, FI
2019 Vinter i Kunsthal Aarhus, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, DK
2019 Mentorernes Momentum, Kunsthal NORD, Aalborg, DK
2019 Big Shades, duo show with Holger Højbjerg, Charlotte Fogh Gallery, Aarhus, DK
2018 Objektivitet, Ringsted Galleriet, DK
2018 An Echo of The Illuminated 2.0, Splab, The Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, DK
2018 Tale Of An Ocean, Lar Mar de Músicas, Cartagena, ES
2018 I, II, III – Bech Risvig Collection, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbaek, DK
2018 SPECTA Surplus Store - SÅ LÆNGE LAGER HAVES, Galleri SPECTA, Copenhagen, DK
2017 Byens glemte kunstskatte, outdoor installation, Horsens Kunstmuseum and the City of Horsens, DK
2017 The Brask Collection, J. F. Willumsens Museum, Frederikssund, DK
2017 ENGROS - skulptur på Grønttorvet i Valby, Skulpturi and PIRPA, Copenhagen, DK
2017 ORD OG HULLER, duo show with Matilde Duus, Se, Aarhus, DK
2017 Rethinking MATTER #3: Biotic Synthetics, Godsbanen, Aarhus, DK
2017 A Step Outside, KH7, Aarhus, DK
2016 UDEN TITEL 16, Kunsthal NORD, Aalborg, DK
2016 Itch Under The Skin, Charlotte Fogh Gallery, Aarhus, DK
2016 An Echo of The Illuminated, 6th Floor, KHiB, Bergen, NO
2015 Hello Abstraction, Charlotte Fogh Gallery, Aarhus, DK
2015 The Smart Home, PePe Inc., Copenhagen, DK*
2015 To Store Coal in Your Bathtub, duo show with Iben Zorn, Hello Koral, Copenhagen, DK
2015 Running Fence, trio show with Iben Zorn and Asger Dybvad Larsen, Huset for Kunst og Design, Holstebro, DK
2015 Afgang15, graduation show, Kunsthal Aarhus, DK
2015 Oh so, Godsbanen, Aarhus, DK
2014 DJK Jubilee Symposium, Stage performance, Kedlen Showroom, Aarhus, DK*
2014 KOmpakt OBjekt, exhibition in my own apartment with Emilia Rosenkrantz, Aarhus, DK
2014 Setup, exhibition in my own apartment with Martin Nielsen, Aarhus, DK
2014 Tank performance at BHQFU, New York*
2014 Tank performance at The Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, DK*
2014 Rituals of The Reflective Self, Residency Unlimited, New York, USA*
2014 Tragedy performance, Residency Unlimited, New York, USA*
2013 BITE Vilnius, Sv. Jonu Street Gallery, Vilnius, LTU
2013 TASE14, Tallinn Academy of Fine Arts, Tallinn, EE*
2013 Lungeværk, Toronto, The Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, DK

Permanent work/commissions
2023 I too creep along the ground, NH Collection Copenhagen, Copenhagen (DK)
2021 Hollow lips and Blue ears / Hule læber og Blå ører, University College Absalon Campus Slagelse, Slagelse, DK
2016 Cup Holder, Skovsnogen - Deep Forest Artland, Kibaek, DK
2016 More Sole, Skulpturlandsby Selde, Selde, DK

Residencies
2022+21 ISCP - International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, USA
2022 Residency Unlimited, New York, USA
2022+19 The Danish Art Workshops (SVFK), Copenhagen, DK
2016 The Danish Institute in Athens, Athens, GR
2014 Residency Unlimited, New York, USA*
2013 Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists' Residency, Michigan, USA*

Grants
2023, 22, 21, 19, 18, 17, 16 Danish Arts Foundation's Working Grant
2022 Niels Wessel Bagges Kunstfond
2022 Solo exhibition I am here for pleasure but it is no fun awarded honoraria by the Danish Arts Foundation
2019 Akademirådets Understøttelsesfond
2019 Carl Nielsen og Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Legat, Talentpris (talent award)
2018 Astrid Noacks Legat
2016 Jens Ejnar og Johanne Larsens Fond til støtte af Unge Bildende Kunstnere
2015 The Jutland Art Academy's Honorary Grant

Public collections
2023 Vejle Art Museum (site-specific commission)
2022 Randers Art Museum
2021, 20, 15 Aarhus Municipality
2019, 17, 16, 15 Danish Arts Foundation
2017 Aarhus University Hospital

Selected publications
2023 From where does the work come, and where is it going? / Hvor kommer værket fra, og hv(...), Art Hub Copenhagen (link)
2022 I am here for pleasure but it is no fun, monographic publication by O-Overgaden (link)
2020 TOUCHED - About Danish art in the new millennium, by Maria Kjær Themsen at Strandberg Publishing
2018 More, texted-archive.com, #40, www (link)

Selected press
2022 Review of the exhibition The King and the Jinn by Bodil Skovgaard at Information (link)
2022 Review of the exhibition I am here for pleasure but it is no fun by Bodil Skovgaard at Information (link)
2022 Review of the exhibition I am here for pleasure but it is no fun by Trine Ross at Politiken (link)
2022 Review of the exhibition I am here for pleasure but it is no fun by Torben Sangild at Kunsten.nu (link)
2021 Video portrait by The Round Tower (link)

* in collaboration with Johanne Lykke as the duo jaja