In his artistic practice, Justin Urbach uses time-based media to research the integration between humans and virtual reality, focusing on questions of mediality, materiality, supposed masculinity, transformative processes, and hybridity. To this end, he creates virtual and partly immersive visual worlds in his video installations, whose reference to reality he breaks in the form of brief displays of image or sound content, so-called glitches. The medium and with it the basic material and technological conditions are systematically revealed and questioningly addressed in the works.
In his photographic works, Urbach emphasizes the process of creation, with graininess and traces of dust inscribed in the image, marking the material’s development process’s basic conditions. Urbach is particularly interested in the relationship between human and nature and contrasts the cool, mechanized environment with seemingly irrational emotionality and vulnerability, exploring the hybridity of these two worlds. The figures usually follow the narrative of an incomplete transformation. The gaze is consciously directed to the camera and thus also to the aesthetic means of a cinematic visual language, which are thus thematized as tools for exploring the hybrid nature of human existence.
Dominik Bais, 2021
1995 born in Munich, DE
lives and works in Munich and somewhere
STUDIES:
2023
Graduation: Diploma of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
Price of the Erwin und Gisela Steiner Stiftung for the diploma show „Fractal Breeze“
2020
Meisterschüler (graduate with honors) of Prof. Julian Rosefeldt
2019
Scholarship and exchange program with the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design ( Media Art Department)
2016-2023
media art and photography in the class of Professor Julian Rosefeldt at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
2014-2016
photography in the class of Professor Dieter Rehm at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
EXHIBITIONS/ SCREENINGS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS(selection)
FRACTAL BREEZE, Max Goelitz Gallery, Berlin, DE – 2023
FRACTAL BREEZE, Diploma show, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, DE – 2023
PLEASE TURN THE LIGHTS ON!, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, DE – 2018
UNDERME, Video-installation with live-music by Salome Kammer and Stephan Heuberger, Ludwigskirche, Munich, DE – 2017
2023
FRACTAL BREEZE - solo exhibtion - Max Goelitz Gallery, Berlin
FRACTAL BREEZE - Diploma show - Academy of Fine Arts Munich
DEBUTANTINNEN Academy of Fine Arts Munich VARIOUS OTHERS – group exhibition - Halle 6 Munich
THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT - group exhibition - Gallery of Empfangshalle Munich
CONTRACTED LEASING – group exhibition - NN Space Munich
SITU FESTIVAL – filmscreening - Chiaramonte Gulfi, Sicilia, IT
EMPFANGSHALLE EMPFÄNGT - group exhibition - Rathausgalerie Munich
2022
STATEMENT – booklaunch – Non Fiction Paris
LASSITUDE – group exhibition – Goethe Institut Paris
ECHOES – in collaboration with Abdullah Miniawy – Haus der Kunst Munich
MANA – group exhibition – Galerie der Künstler*innen Munich
BEING SOMETHING IN ESSENCE... – group intervention at the „Festival der Zukunft“ – Deutsches Museum Munich
MILLENNIUM FILMWORKSHOP – film screening – Millennium Film Workshop New York
KRITAMON ORACLE – group exhibition – Kerkis-Echo Marathokampos Samos (Greece)
WUNDERBLOCK BETA – online and in the display window – DOCK 20 Sammlung Hollenstein
GNADE – group exhibition – Galerie der Künstler*innen Munich
DANTONS TOD – video – Stadttheater Gießen
2021
MANA – hybrid group exhibition – Verpackerei Gö
SUGAR PIE HONEY PUNCH – group exhibition – Boxwerk Munich
REWIRE FESTIVAL 2021 – film screening – Online Edition Rewire Festival
HIGH WATERS – film screening – Werkstattkino Munich
YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE A BATH IN GOOD LUCK – duo exhibition – Digital Art Space Munich
2020
DROP DEAD FASTER – duo exhibition – AkademieGalerie
THE PERFECT VIEW – film screening – short film programme of „About Endlessness“ by Roy Andersson
IN THE DARK TIMES WILL THERE ALSO BE SINGING? – group exhibition – class of Professor Julian Rosefeldt – Blitz Music Club Munich
2019
UNDER THE SUN – group exhibition – HFG Karlsruhe
STRATA – group exhibition – class of Professor Julian Rosefeldt – Academy of Fine Arts Munich
STRATA 2.0 – group exhibition – University of applied sciences Biberach
L’ARTISTE DEVANT SA TOILE – group exhibition – Kunstverein Marburg
NACKTE SINGULARITÄTEN – group exhibition, class of Professor Philip Gröning – Kösk Munich
EIN PAAR TAGE NACH DER WELT – group exhibition, class of Professor Philip Gröning – AkademieGalerie Munich
2018
KMMN KUNSTFILMTAGE – group exhibition – KMMN Space Kassel
PLEASE TURN THE LIGHTS ON! – solo exhibition – Academy of Fine Arts Munich
DAS LABOR – group exhibition, class of Professor Julian Rosefeldt – Academy of Fine Arts Munic
SCHOLARSHIPS
2023
Price of the Erwin und Gisela Steiner Stiftung for the diploma show „Fractal Breeze“
2022
Scholarship „Junge Kunst und Neue Wege“ – Bayern Innovativ
2019
Scholarship of the Ministry of Education and cultural affairs Baden-Württenberg
Scholarship and exchange program with the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design ( Media Art Department)
2017
First Prize of Akademieverein Munich; group exhibition, class of Professor Julian Rosefeldt
2016
First Prize of Akademieverein Munich; group exhibition, class of Professor Julian Rosefeldt
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