Julia Abele

I am a figurative painter. I do not have a favourite colour. I like acrylics for their quick results. I like oil because of the smell. I love old masters. I Iove some modern masters also.

If I had been an old master I would most likely have painted still lifes what with being intrigued by the subject of Vanitas, or the momentariness of life.

Nowadays, all varieties of classic still lifes seem to have been painted, which is why I keep looking for other ways to capture the transitory aspects of modern life without the help of decaying food or dead birds. For my latest series, my sketchbook has been a little battered Japanese camera (Digital Harinezumi). According to its manufacturer it is re-inventing what is around us. With its blurs, distortions and inaccurate colours it helps me to add a snapshot quality to my paintings, while I am trying to illustrate the melancholy and the inevitability of the constant change around me.

Change seems to be the leitmotiv for the upcoming year, as I am recently moving back and forth between portrait, landscape and still life. Always in search of a new form of expression, I keep switching between a simple freestyle and a more realistic manner.

Acrylics are the perfect medium for what I ...

University of Heidelberg
University of London (Royal Holloway)

February, 2025
"Momentaufnahmen"
Galerie Muschik, Aschaffenburg

October 2024
Streifzüge
Kunstraum in Churfranken/Löw Haus
Klingenberg/Main

March 2024
The Other Art Fair
The old Truman Brewery, London

September 2023
Neckarorte- Orte im Wandel
Neckarpromenade, Heidelberg

June-August 2023
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition "Only Connect"
selected Painting "KINTSUGI" (still life)

March 2023
The Other Art Fair
Old Truman Brewery, London

September 2021
Painting Diary - Works on paper
Rotes Haus, Heidelberg

July 2021
Artwalk - Neckar Promenade
Group Exhibition, Heidelberg


September 11-13, 2020
Coming home "Kommen Sie nach Hause"
Group Exhibition, Heidelberg

October 19, 2019
Open House Day "Tag des Offenen Ateliers" Heidelberg

June 12 – August 20, 2018
“Steve’s B&B” at 250th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Piccadilly, London

June – July, 2016
Solo Exhibition „Cityscapes“ Neuenheimer Apotheke Brückenstraße 35, Heidelberg

June 2016
Featured in British Vogue „A Vogue Interior“, Centenary Edition

January 13 – 23, 2014
art below „Art of Angel“ (Angel Tube Station + Candid Art‘s Trust, London)

December 1, 2012
Amsterdam Showcase (group exhibition) De Oude Kerk (Global Art Agency)

November 24 – 25, 2012
Intermezzo (group exhibiti...