Julien Hübsch

During his residency at the Gare de Matapédia, Julien Hübsch is exploring the translation of public space into the traditional pictorial context of watercolor, through two bodies of work.

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Based on the work Miracle of the Slave (1548) by Tintoretto - a master of the Italian Renaissance - Julien Hübsch produced a first series of fragmented works on paper, somewhere between illegibility and narrative, approaching abstraction. After methodically painting one sketch a day inspired by this masterpiece, what began as a stylistic exercise soon became the beginning of a new body of work, Tintoretto, it's for you, which oscillates between representation and abstraction, architecture and figuration. Thus, by transgressing traditional painting, Julien Hübsch moves closer to the posture of Tintoretto, who had an avant-garde way of depicting saints - such as St. Mark in Miracle of the Slave Appearing Suspended from Heaven - and who integrated the people into his compositions, with an emphasis on the representation of workers, a social milieu from which he came.

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This visual research led Julien Hübsch to conceptualize another series of works entitled Sixteen Views of a Tyvec Scan, in which the artist translates building materials into watercolor. By scanning a used piece of Tyvec found in the street and painting it multiple times, the artist uses urban waste as a traditional motif, like a classical painter who reproduces the same mountain on a daily basis, albeit differently each time.

 

BIOGRAPHY

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Julien Hübsch was born in 1995 in the industrial south of Luxembourg and currently lives and works between Luxembourg and Germany. He studied at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, the Kunsthochschule in Mainz and the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. In 2023, he graduated in Shannon Bool's “expanded painting” class for his “revisited” project, based on research into a major industrial site in southern Luxembourg that was one of the main catalysts for the region's development in the 20th century. Julien Hübsch's work has been exhibited in galleries and institutions in Berlin, Frankfurt, New York, Luxembourg and Mainz, among others, and is included in the collections of public museums in Luxembourg. He was also resident at the Cité des Arts in Paris in 2024. Since 2022, he has been represented by the Reuter Bausch art gallery in Luxembourg.

 

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

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2024

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Metzeschmelz: revisited, solo exhibition, Baustelle Schaustelle, Essen, DE

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Tracing/a recollection, solo exhibition, CAPE, Ettelbrück, LU

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walls/origins/replacements, solo exhibition, Centre d’art Dominique Lang, Dudelange, LU

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Thirties:Colour codes, group exhibition, Kunsthalle Trier, Trier, DE

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Grober Unfug, group exhibition, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, DE

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KEEP RUNNING_Experimente V.I, group exhibition, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst Roland Phleps, Freiburg, DE

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FOREVER AFTER, group exhibition, Reuter Bausch Art Gallery, LU

 

2023

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Experimente V_Spuren, group exhibition, Galerie van der Koelen, Mainz, DE *

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Passe-Partout, group exhibition, LIAR NYC, New York, USA

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walls/origins/replacements, solo exhibition, Cité des Arts Paris, Studio 1410, Paris, FR

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revisited, solo exhibition, Kunsthochschule Mainz, DE