Julian Charrière

Julian Charrière (b. 1987) Based in Berlin, Swiss-French artist Julian Charrière engages with both natural terrains and imaginary landscapes, investigating the cultural histories and slow geological forces that shape the planet and our idea of it. Spanning film, sculpture, photography, and installation, his practice is grounded in fieldwork in remote sites that have become charged by human inference, such as melting glaciers, nuclear test sites, deep-sea ecosystems, and mining grounds. Through a methodology informed by scientific observation and speculative poetics, his immersive spaces are marked by both wonder and disquiet, staged as encounters that aim to deconstruct the colonial and extractivist legacies inherent to acts of exploration––and which still govern our technologies of seeing. His work has been widely exhibited internationally, with solo exhibitions at Museum Tinguely, Switzerland; ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark; Palais de Tokyo, France; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, United States; Langen Foundation, Germany; Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), Italy; and Aargauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland, among other venues. His work has also been presented at the Centre Pompidou, France; Fondation Beyeler, Switzerland; and Mori Art Museum, Japan, as well as in multiple Venice Biennales. In 2024, Charrière became the first recipient of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize, awarded by The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles. Julian Charrière has upcoming solo exhibitions at Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), Tasmania, and The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles.