Lunita-July Dorn
Lunita-July Dorn
LUNITA-JULY DORN | Monopol Magazin Cover
Elke Buhr in the November issue of Monopol Magazine: "A few years ago, there was still regular heated debate about whether painting was still a contemporary artistic medium. Our current cover image, for example, shows how absurd this was. We don't know exactly what the story is behind this self-confident, headstrong young woman with a cigarette and a bouquet of flowers. But one thing is certain: a work of art can hardly be more contemporary than this painting. It was created by Berlin artist Lunita July Dorn, 26, one of the nominees for the Young Generation Art Award, which is now in its second round. The prize, sponsored by Degussa Goldhandel in cooperation with Monopol magazine, supports young artists at the beginning of their careers. A total of five of them were nominated for the award's shortlist from numerous applications. Incidentally, the fact that a picture by Dorn has now ended up on our cover should by no means be seen as a preliminary decision – as you will see from page 60 onwards, the other entries are just as exciting."
LUNITA-JULY DORN | Young Generation Art Award
At the Frieze London, MONOPOL MAGAZINE, in cooperation with Degussa Goldhandel, announced the five nominees for the Young Generation Art Award 2026. The award, which promotes promising young artists in contemporary art, was launched in 2024 and presented for the first time in 2025. Degussa Goldhandel is represented at Frieze for the first time this year with the award and is showing a large solo exhibition by the first winner, Thuy Tien Nguyen, whose work impressed the jury in 2025. The new shortlist for 2026 has now been unveiled at the opening of the fair. The nominees are Yuhao Chen, Lunita-July Dorn, Arne Grashoff, Emmélie Lempert and Ken Nwadiogbu. They were selected from almost 400 submissions – an impressive sign of the great interest young artists have in the award. The five positions will be presented shortly in the November issue of Monopol and on Monopol online. From 28 November, their works will be on display in a joint exhibition at the Degussa branch in Berlin, Französische Straße 48.
LUNITA-JULY DORN | SPARK Art Fair, Vienna
The SPARK Art Fair Vienna shines with its globally unique concept of focusing exclusively on individual presentations in uniformly sized booths and being curated throughout. Galleries are invited to participate by the Curatorial & Advisory Board. In March 2025, the Judith Andreae Gallery will present Berlin-based artist Lunita-July Dorn (born 1999). Art critic and author Laura Helena Wurth (Kunstforum International, FAZ, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, among others) perfectly sums up Lunita's fearless vision with her unmistakable ‘no bullshit’ statement – a sentiment that reflects the raw authenticity and bold spirit of these captivating works. Her insightful text highlights how Dorn navigates a world of symbols – angels, trophies, fleeting glances – where nothing is as clear-cut as it seems.
LUNITA JULY-DORN | Numéro Berlin
Layers of (Paint) the Present: An interview with Lunita July-Dorn by Marcus Boxler
From all directions, the same piercing pair of eyes stare back. Sometimes surrounded by abstract, sometimes by concrete elements: teeth, flowers, suns, wings, books, cigarettes. Very often cigarettes. The young woman to whom these piercing eyes belong remains a compositional constant in Lunita July-Dorn’s paintings. This woman is herself. But these paintings are not self-portraits. While visiting her Berlin studio — where only six paintings are present — we are interrupted multiple times. How everything connects, the painter explains herself.
LUNITA-JULY DORN | gallerytalk.net
Lara Brörken for gallerytalk.net on Lunita-July Dorn's first solo show in spring 2025 at the Judith Andreae Gallery in Bonn: "Now, in her mid-twenties, adulthood is looming, but Lunita-July Dorn's biggest concern is never being a child again. Living life, not missing out on anything, not closing yourself off, enjoying, growing and playing – how can all this be combined? In her first, very intimate solo show ‘+ am Ende nichts vermissen’ (and in the end, not missing anything) at the Judith Andreae Gallery, small drawings and large canvases take us back to places from the artist's childhood and manifest her wishes for the future."
LUNITA-JULY DORN | Gegen den Strich, Schloss Sacrow
The exhibition GEGEN DEN STRICH runs until October 20th at Schloss Sacrow in Potsdam. Expressive colorfulness, radical subjectivity, rough strokes and impulsive style as well as a humorous approach to artistic models and pictorial traditions are some of the characteristics of the exhibition 'Against the Grain'. The featured artists from different backgrounds, graduates of art colleges and academies, belong to a generation for whom classifications according to art movements and nationalities, painting schools and styles only play a subordinate role, who move freely between abstraction and figuration.
LUNITA-JULY DORN & RUNE MIELDS | Palazzo Bembo, Venice
"Unapologetic WomXn", curated by Destinee Ross-Sutton, NY, 20. April - 24. November 2024, Palazzo Bembo, Venedig.
“Unapologetic WomXn”, The Dream is the Truth”, curated by Destinee Ross-Sutton, NY & Stockholm. This international group exhibition consists of 31 female artists on the subject of female sexuality through their own eyes while creating a safe space of community, allowing for more of a humanized view of anything the artists focus on; their bodies, experiences, how women navigate the world within the changes that occur in it constantly, and the importance of artists and art not conforming to the constraints of our societies. This isn’t dissimilar to the way a traditionally male dominated society has imposed and still imposes their idea of what a woman should be; art is supposed to make you feel; whether it being a sense of peace or shakes and asks you to confront your ideas, otherwise isn’t it just decoration? Are women only decoration? A mere object?
