Lunita-July Dorn

LUNITA-JULY DORN & RUNE MIELDS | Palazzo Bembo, Venedig

"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?

The experience of being a woman is multifaceted; there are many X-factors that basically decide what one’s experience as a woman and quality of life will most likely look like. From family and society, economic and socioeconomic factors, racial background, skin tone, zip codes, the beauty standards of one’s culture or the culture of the country you live in, politics and laws that affect your womXnhood. Rarely imposed by you, but the burden is yours to bear.
Women are and can be many things, daughters, mothers, sisters, CEOs, entrepreneurs, workers, caregivers, caretakers, providers, innovators, lovers, wives, queer, lesbian, bisexual, Christian, Muslim, atheists, Hindus, Sikhs, Catholics, Jewish, politicians, world leaders, women are loved, objectified, respected, disrespected, stoned, killed, admired, trafficked, worshipped, enslaved, oppressed, abused, used, celebrated, monetized, mourned, can be Caucasian, Black, Asian, Aboriginal, Hispanic, biracial, even multiracial, can be children, teens, adults, young or old, tall, short, skinny, obese, malnourished, healthy or not, refugees, free to travel or not, allowed to get an education or not, choose their partner or not, decide how to dress or not, their lives, gender and sexual expression, bodies and reproductive rights decided for them or not. Are women free to just “be”? One says it’s an artist’s duty to reflect the times we live in. Are women artists allowed to do so the same way as their male counterparts?

The exhibition has work by artists aged 25 to 89, emerging to established, from Greece, Germany, Uganda, Ukraine, South Africa, Sweden, India, Iran, Ukraine, USA, etc., some work specifically made for, other work lent for this exhibition, incl. from Ross-Sutton’s personal collection. Stacey Gillian Abe, Isa Andersson, Pyaar Azaadi formerly known as Jaishri Abichandani, Rita Mawuena Benissan, Alison Blickle, Gill Button, Basha Chakrabarti, Dorothea Charol, Renee Cox, Ariel Dannielle, Lunita-July Dorn, Monica Kim Garza, Vanessa German, Reihaneh Hosseini, Stella Kapezanou, Lyne Lapointe, Amani Lewis, Turiya Magadlela, Emily Manwaring, Kristina Matousch, Rune Mields, Sungi Mlengeya, Zanele Muholi, Lydia Nobles, Vanessa Raw, Paris Reid, Deborah Roberts, Georgia Theologou, Sevina Tzánou, Nadia K Waheed and Ryan Wilde.

LUNITA-JULY DORN | One Artist Show

We are pleased to present at this year's art Karlsruhe 2024 in the ONE ARTIST SHOW category new works by young Berlin artist LUNITA-JULY DORN.
You will find us at the fair in hall 2, booth D 06.

Fantasy images and everyday life are intrinsically interwoven in Lunita-July Dorn's (*1999) mostly large-format acrylic paintings. In a distinctively loose painting style characterized by loose and broad brushstrokes, she often captures herself as the main protagonist on the canvas. Elements such as teapots and teacups as well as the unlit, smokeless cigarette form her props. They also function as carriers of meaning for the artist's personal emotional world. No less important is the processual nature of her creative process, which sometimes comes to light in a classic non-finito manner and overpainting or remains hidden from the viewer in the final result.

Lunita-July Dorn has been studying at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin since 2020, where she works for the Friederike Feldmann class. She recently received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation. In 2022 she took part in the large-scale group exhibition "Big City Baby" at ZAK - Center for Contemporary Art in the Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin. In April 2023, Galerie Judith Andreae presented her works for the first time in the exhibition "CHERRIES ON TOP". The artist also exhibited one of her works for 48 hours in the "Underground MoMa" project in the Bundesplatz subway station - an exhibition format conceived by the Berlin University of the Arts and the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. In April 2024, works by Dorn will be on display at the Venice Biennale at Palazzo Bembo in a large-scale exhibition of female positions - curated by D. Ross-Sutton. Another upcoming show is planned for October 2024 at the non-profit space CFHILL in Stockholm.

Lunita-July Dorn lives and works in Berlin.

GALERIE JUDITH ANDREAE | art Karlsruhe 2024

Die Galerie Judith Andreae freut sich auf der art Karlsruhe ausgewählte Keramikarbeiten der Künstler:innen Stefanie BREHM, Zeichnungen der Berliner Künstlerin Tiziana Jill BECK und Malereien von Bettina MARX auf dem Hauptstand D06 in der Halle 2 zu präsentieren. Zudem zeigen wir neue Leinwandarbeiten der jungen Künstlerin Lunita-July DORN in einer Solopräsentation in der Rubrik "One Artist Show" sowie großformatige schwarz-weiß Malerei der Konzeptkünstlerin Rune Mields im Sektor "re:discover", der durch den BVDG und der BKM gefördert und unterstützt wird. Im Bereich Paper Square zeigen wir zudem Papierarbeiten der Künstlerin Hildegard Elma.

art Karlsruhe
Messeallee 1
76287 Rheinstetten
22. - 25. Februar 2024

Weitere Informationen unter: https://www.art-karlsruhe.de/de/