Rolf Julius
Born in Wilhelmshaven, Germany in 1939. Studied Art in Bremen and Berlin
Master Student at the Hochschule der Kunste in the 1960s.
Since1979 he has produced works in the borderline region between music and art.
1983-84 lived in New York PS-1 studio and presented a lot of performances and installations.
Lived in Tokyo in 1990 by the grant of Japan Foundation Fellowship.
Lives and works in Berlin
selected group shows
1985 "New Music America" Los Angeles and Biennal Paris, France
1987 "Music Which Passes the Building" documenta 8, Kassel, Germany
1991 "John Cage and Modernism" T. Kosugi & Julius, sound installations,
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
1992 "How loud is the Stillness" Arte Amazonas, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia
1994 "Music for a Bamboo Forest" Soundfestival in Kyoto, Japan
1998 "Music for an Almost Empty Space" National Gallery in Hamburger Bahnhof,
Museum for Contemporary Art Berlin, Germany
2000 "Walking" Echigo-Tsumari Art Trienniale, Niigata, Japan
2001 Asian Art Museum San Francisco, USA
Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (visual sound)
2003 Al lado del silencio, MetrÓnom, Barcelona, Spain
Donaueschinger Musiktage, Donaueschingen, Germany
2004 Ecouté, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2006 Maerzmusik, Berlin (with Miki Yui and Aki Takahashi, piano)
Sonambiente, Festival fÜr hÖren und sehen,
Akademie der KÜnste Berlin, Germany
Berlin, Tokyo - Tokyo, Berlin, New National Gallery Berlin, Germany
2007 The Nationalmuseum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan (with Akio Suzuki)
2009 Echigo-Tsumari Triennale, Japan
selected one person shows
1983 "Music for a Long Time" PS-1 Museum, New York
1997 "Black Listens to Red (Piano Concerto)" Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh USA
2000 Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen Germany
"Black (Red)" University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst USA
2001 "Red or how loud is Black" Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel Germany
(Aki Takahashi, piano, performing my wall composition)
2003 "Music for the Eyes" Frac Limousin, Limoges France
2004 "Listen to Black" FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier France
"Songbook 1-6" performed by The Maulwerker in Cologne, Germany (Sound Art Festival)
2005 "Musik weit entfernt“, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin Germany
2006 "Grau schweigt" Museum Bochum, Germany
2007 Galerie cortex athletico, Bordeaux France
e/static, Torino Italy
2008 "Weiter entfernt (Musik für den Blick nach unten)" Weserburg, Museum for Contemprary Art, Bremen Germany
2009 "Backstage" Gallery Anselm Dreher, Berlin, Germany
"Blue-Yellow" Gallery Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux France
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