Pauline Julier is a Swiss, French artist and filmmaker whose practice explores the connections people forge with the world around them through stories, rituals, knowledge, and images. Interweaving documentary, theoretical, and fictional elements, her films and installations reflect the complexity of human relationships with the environment, drawing links between scientific findings and mythological narratives to offer shifting perspectives on our place in the world.

"How do we transmit culture from one generation to the next ? How can we orient ourselves in time and space ? It is never an easy task. Especially for those who used to call themselves “Moderns” or “post-moderns”, because they always have an uneasy relation with tradition and inheritance. are they not supposed to break away with tradition, so as to free themselves from the weight of the past ? But free for what ? Pauline Julier stages how every generation has to raise such a question anew." Bruno Latour, Reset Modernity! Exhibition in ZKM Karlsruhe, 2016

 

Her works have been presented in major contemporary art centers, institutions, and festivals globally, including the Centre Pompidou (Paris), IAC (Villeurbanne), Loop (Barcelona), Visions du Réel (Nyon), Wiels (Brussels), Centre d’Art Contemporain (Geneva), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Tokyo Wonder Site, Museum of Modern Art (Tanzania), Palazzo Grassi (Venice), New York, Madrid, Berlin, Zagreb, TIFF Cinematheque (Toronto), and the Pera Museum (Istanbul). A two-time recipient of the Swiss Art Award (2010, 2021) and the ‘‘Mondes Nouveaux’’ Grant from the French Cultural Department (2022), her solo show Naturalis Historia toured internationally after opening at the Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris (2017). She presented a major solo exhibition at Aargauer Kunsthaus (Switzerland) in 2024 and is currently finishing her first fiction feature film, Les Indes (upcoming summer 2026).

 

CONTACT / paulinejulier.info@gmail.com

 

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