Biography
Julia Mensch is a visual artist and mother of one. She is from Buenos Aires, and is currently based in Berlin.
She studied at Hito Steyer’s class at the UdK, Berlin, and at the National Art University in Buenos Aires, where she finished her thesis under the supervision of Eduardo Molinari. She has taken part in several international residency programs and exhibitions, including Savvy Contemporary and NGBK (Berlin), Museo Nacional de Grabado (Buenos Aires), Shedhalle (Zürich), Kunsthalle Appenzell, Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil (São Paulo), BienalSur (Buenos Aires). Her work was supported the Senate of Berlin/DE, Pro Helvetia/CH, Amt für Kultur Appenzell Ausserrhoden/CH, Schlesinger Stiftung/CH, Sulzberg Stiftung/CH, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)/DE, Robert Bosch Foundation/DE, Fondo Nacional de las Artes/AR, among others. Julia develops her practice based on long-term research, readings of fiction and theory, interviews, and visits to archives and territories.
Her work is an intersection of text, drawing, installation, public events, photography, video, and lecture performance to open collective dialogues regarding political and social contexts and future scenarios.
Her practice focuses on the history of Socialism and Communism as well as environmental socio-political conflicts in Latin America confronting the exploitative conditions of the land and beings since colonization and throughout neocolonialism. In recent years, Julia’s artistic work has focused on the neo-extractivist model of transgenic agriculture in Argentina by cooperating with wild plants and farmers, agro-ecologists, environmental activists, and critical scientists, who are creating resistance and alternatives to this ecocide model.