Julia Kaiser

My paintings are an investigation of visual vocabularies; a playful exploration of form, colour combinations, and patterns that represent a private, abstract language. I do not attempt to decode the symbols, only to find what resonates within me. I love translating digital motifs physically, meticulously reproducing forms by hand, embracing anomalies as imperfect “perfection.”

Rhythm and repetition work meditatively for me, and I am no longer thinking, only looking and feeling. From slow and deliberate to impulsive and fast, I want to capture the vibrancy of motion. The large canvas allows me to express freedom and exuberance, yet my marks and gestures attempt to attain a balance between discipline and play, spontaneity and control.

Figurative elements invade my world for a while and then disappear again, while old-school technical drawings, vintage flora and fauna studies, maps and bitmapped graphical elements might also contribute to a visual conversation. The resulting work is a collision between the geometric and organic, digital and analogue, structure and chaos.

My palette is bold and opaque, primary and pastel, black and white. I work on paper or linen with East Indian and colour ink, acrylic and oil paint, marke...

Julia Kaiser was born and raised in the south of Germany. She attended Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar (Saar College of Fine Arts). After a short stay in San Francisco, she moved to Amsterdam, where she obtained her MFA from Sandberg Institute. A self-taught painter, she bridges her professional background and formal training in graphic design with more intuitive, kinesthetic investigations. She creates boldly contrasting large-scale paintings and smaller works on linen and paper. Her work has shown in several exhibitions in Amsterdam.