A mix of performance, sculpture, installation, video and photography, Julian Charrière’s works are often the result of fieldwork in liminal or discarded locations. By exploring places with acute geophysical identities (volcanoes, icefields, radioactive sites…), the artist presents alternative histories and opens speculative windows which look across deep geological as well as human time. His expeditions and projects, organised in collaboration with scientists, engineers, musicians, art historians and philosophers – offer a way to go beyond the disciplinary boundaries of art, while deconstructing the human definition of “nature”, from Romanticism to the Anthropocene. With his immersive works, Julian Charrière questions the perception and representation of the natural world, inventing planetary narratives for the future.

Julian Charrière is a Franco-Swiss artist born in Morges (Switzerland) in 1987. He lives and works in Berlin (Germany). He has previously collaborated with the Palais de Tokyo on the group exhibitions “The Dream of Forms” (2017) and “The Unfinished Presents” (off the walls in the context of the 12^th Lyon Biennial, 2013). Recent solo exhibitions include “Controlled Burn” (Langen Foundation, Neuss, 2023), “Erratic” (SFMOMA, San Francisco, 2022), “Concentrations 63: Towards No Earthly Pole” (Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2021), “All We Ever Wanted Was Everything And Everywhere” (MAMbo, Bologna, 2019). He has also recently taken part in the National Gallery of Victoria Triennial (Melbourne, 2023) and the 16th Lyon Biennial (2022), as well as the exhibitions “Histoires des pierres” (Villa Medici, Rome, 2023) and “Les portes du possible. Art & science fiction” (Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2022). He has been nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize 2021. He is represented by the galleries Perrotin (Paris), Dittrich & Schlechtriem (Berlin), Galerie Tschudi (Zurich), Sies + Höke (Düsseldorf) and Sean Kelly (New York).