Julie Chovin

Born in 1983 in Valence, France, Julie Chovin lives and works in Berlin.

She graduated from the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Saint-Étienne, France (2006).
Winner of the Icar Prize in 2008, she exhibited at Galerie RX in Paris in 2009.
In 2012–2013, she received a DAAD scholarship. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions such as the Biennale de l’Image Tangible (Paris), Chez Volume (Paris), Tête, Galerie Irrgang (Berlin), Chimera Project Gallery (Budapest), BWA Sokół Gallery Nowy Sacz, CK Zamek Poznan, Galerie Arsenal Bialystok (Poland), Meet Factory and Pragovka (Prague).

Julie Chovin’s practice is polymorphic, beginning with drawing and expanding through photography, video, and installation, stretching from the individual body to the collective landscape. She is interested in the tension between an assumed reality and the imaginary.
Through affect and bodily experience, she deconstructs contemporary myths and structures in order to understand power and domination and to open new spaces. Julie Chovin also collaborates with living organisms such as humans, plants, and molds.

Her works serve as triggers for the imagination and open the way to new possible narratives, between utopia and dystopia.
They are narratives—journeys, whether photographic and physical, or imaginary and drawn—spread across the pages of a book or the space of a room, functioning as memory, sparking each viewer’s imagination and opening up possible stories.

Seeking to materialize the gap between the myth of Berlin’s underground culture and its reality, she authored the artist’s book The Place to Be, 220 Nightclubs in Berlin 2013–2020.
Produced with the support of the Berlin Senate’s Katalogsförderung, the book was published by Vexer Verlag (Berlin/St. Gallen) in 2021.
The project is a collection of 220 photographs of Berlin nightclub façades, taken in the light of winter days.

www.juliechovin.com