Julia Bünnagel
Julia Bünnagel (*1977, Haan) studied from 1998-2006 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Tony Cragg and Hubert Kiecol. Bünnagel works across different disciplines as a sculptor, sound performer and installation artist. She has been teaching at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf since 2015. She has had solo exhibitions and performances at Marta Herford, Kunstmuseum Mülheim a. R., Kunstverein St. Pauli, Kunstverein Aachen, Galerie Sebastian Brandl Cologne and Galerie Rupert Pfab Düsseldorf, where she is also represented. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions at Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof in Hamburg, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum & Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen and Pori Art Museum Finland, among others.
Julia Bünnagel lives and works in Cologne.
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www.sculptressofsound.de
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English Version
Black glass panels with a precisely perfected high-gloss aesthetic line the walkways in the old cemetery and break up the familiar aesthetics of the stone and marble gravestones in the park-like area. The shiny surfaces function like a poetic mirror, reflecting nature and the clouds in the sky. With the size resembling a grave slab, the artist takes up the local burial culture to open up a symbolic space of meaning that reaches deep into cultural history. Bünnagel plays with the canon of meaning of the mirror as a gateway to another world and a baroque symbol of infinity, subtly linking these implicit references in her objects with the specific environment for which they were developed. The reflection of the changing sky and nature subtly reflects temporality and change.