Monaco, Julie

Julie has been working on the content-related focus of digital image generation by means of fractal structures/surfaces (renderings) in dialogue with analog elements since 2001. The concentration is on the exploration of fractal rendering possibilities with software suitable for this purpose. The works are artificial, digitally created images that are not a reflection of a found "real"; their basis is numerical codes.
The result is achieved by a previously concretely determined calculation option...
The interplay of computer-generated signs and hand-created drawing gestures, as well as the respective medial translation into materiality, of silver gelatin photography or C-prints, more recently also inkjet prints, are the interface of her work.
The images that emerge from this process are produced in different print techniques, depending on the series. From the simple C-Print to the complex analog Silver Gelatin Prints which are developed and toned by hand.

In the last series, for the first time the purely computer generated images, which served as a template for themselves, were extended by an element: a chemical process / copper sulfates.
The post-processing of the negatives / repros of the computer-generated image are processed in the laboratory and subjected to chemical processes.
The focus of her artistic research is to combine the analog elements with digital
digital.
The INSTAX FILM medium adds new possibilities to her field of work.
Her starting point is the computer generated image. This is transferred to another level of abstraction by combining the computer and camera obsura (as well as photo lens). This creates another creative space by combining several levels.
The picture is "taken" with an INSTAX FILM COLOR/MONOCHROME from the computer with a CAMERA OBSURA built for it as well as further converted cameras.
The INSTAX material in its texture adds its expression.
The gravure series "MMXXI" was also created from this working method.

This way of working also resulted in the gravure series "MMXXI" as well as the current FEMALEART EDITION: FE_02_#09 from 2022!

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2021 „Julie Monaco“ Bildraum Bodensee, Bregenz, Austria

2018 „Singular Lamina - Color Laminam“ Kunstverlag Wolfrum, Vienna, Austria
2018 „EX|I/ST/tus Plates“ 11 UNIKATE, Hypo Tirol Bank, Vienna, Austria
2017 Julie Monaco bei „Kronos Advisory“, Vienna

2017 „EX|I/ST/tus Plates“ 11 UNIKATE, Hypo Tirol Bank, Bozen, Italy 
„EX|I/ST/tus Plates“ 11 UNIKATE, Hypo Tirol Bank, Innsbruck, Austria
2016 Julie Monaco, St. Peter an der Sperr, Wiener Neustadt, Austria
2015 Julie Monaco,„CHEMICAL PLATES“, Galerie Traklhaus Salzburg, Austria
2014 Julie Monaco,„CHEMICAL PLATES“, Galerie Hilger, Vienna, Austria

2014 Julie Monaco, Factory der Kunsthalle Krems, Austria

2011 Julie Monaco 19972011, Hilger BROTKunsthalle,Vienna, Austria

2009 _957, Galerie hilger contemporary, Vienna, Austria

2009 _957, La Citta, Verona, Italy
2006 „21“, Galerie Bonni Benrubi, New York, USA

2006 „21“, Galerie hilger contemporary,Vienna, Austria

2003 „Focused Daily“ Hyperrealistic Landscapes, DAM Gallery, Berlin, G.
2003 „Focused Daily“ Hyperrealistic Landscapes, KlausEngelhorn20, Vienna, A. 

Group Exhibitions
2021 „50 JAHRE GALERIE ERNST HILGER“, Hochhaus Herrengasse, Wien

2020 „Fragile Schöpfung“ Dom Museum Wien, Vienna Austria

2019 „HEART OF DARKNESS“ - Joseph Conrad, Villa Schapira,Vienna Austria
2019 „Das ist kein Musenkuss, Liebster!“ Zeitgenösische Künstlerinnen im 
Dialog mit Alten Meistern, KUNSTRAUM im Kinsky, Vienna Austria
2019 „Bilder ohne Kamera“. Fotogrammatische Werke aus der Sammlung 
Spallart, Eboran Galerie, Salzburg, Austria

2018 „Summer Waves“– FRECH INTERIOR FINE-ART, Vienna, Austria

2018 „TullnART – Garten der Künstler“, Minoritenkloster Tulln, Austria
2017 „ÄSTHETIK DER VERÄNDERUNG“, 150 Jahre Universität 
für angewandte Kunst Vienna, Austria

2017 „P h o t o g r a p h s ( b y )“, HilgerBROTKunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
2017 „Talisman“ Edition Furor, Vienna

2017 „YOU WANT TRUTH OR BEAUTY?“, Arbeiten aus der Sammlung SpallArt, 
KUNSTHALLE im Kunsthaus Nexus, Salzburg, Austria

2017 „lightness and matter“ Kunstraum NOE, Vienna, Austria
2017 Hilger NEXT & HilgerBROTKunsthalle, Vienna, Austria

2016 „Gelatin Silver Print Is Dead!“

2016 Severin's Alpin Resort, Lech am Arlberg, Austria

2016 Maggical Surfaces: The Uncanny in Contemporary Photography 
Pararasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London N1 7RW
2016 Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, DIE SAMMLUNG Klassiker, Entdeckungen und 
neue Positionen, Linz, Austria

2015 Landscape in my Mind“ Landschaftsfotografie heute, Von Hamish Fulton 
bis Andreas Gursky,Kunstforum Bank Austria Vienna / Freyung 8
2015 TEXT:BILD/BILD:TEXT ,Transformation, Fotogalerie Vienna, Austria
2015 „SPRING“, Galerie Wolfrum, „SPRING“ Vienna, Austria

2015 VIENNA FOR ARTS SAKE, ARCHIV AUSTRIA / CONTEMORARY ART,Winterpalais Belvedere,
Himmelpfortgasse 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria

2013 Fragile, BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

2013 10 Jahre Lentos, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria
2013 Young Austrian Photography, Lockheed Martin Gallery, 
Manison at Strathmore, Maryland
2013, USA
2013 Neumann und Partners, Soloprojekt, Vienna, Austria

2013 CA immo, Soloprojekt, Vienna, Austria

2012 Young Austrian Photography, L2 Lounge, Washington DC, USA
2012 Spaces & Faces, DIEAUSSTELLUNGSSTRASSE, Vienna, Austria
2012 Grafik, Galerie Wolfrum, Vienna, Austria 
2011 Entartainer, Parkfair, Parkdeck Stadion Center, Vienna

2010 Story behold, story be told, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, A.
2010 Summer, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Austria

2010 Wunderwelt, Fotogalerie, Vienna,Austria

2010 You never know what happen next, 
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria

2010 im vorbeigehen, Katholische Theologische Universität, Linz, Austria
2009 Now you see it, Bartlemas Chapel, Oxford, England

2009 Open Art - Summerstage, Vienna, Austria

2009 Kreuzungspunkt Linz, Junge Kunst und Meisterwerke, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria

2009 Stark bewölkt, MUSA Museum Startgalerie Artothek (ehem. Museum auf Abruf), Vienna, Austria

2009 Landscape as a Dream, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy

2008 Kowanz und Next Generation, Investkredit Bank AG,Wien, Austria
2008 Central Europe Revisited, Esterházy Contemporary, 
Schloss Esterházy, Eisenstadt, Austria
2008 L’ Art en Europe-Pommery Experience 5, 
France Domaine Pommery, Reims, France

2008 Lichtspuren, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria
2007 Editionen, Momentum Photographie, Vienna, Austria
2007 Romanticism – a female approach?, 
Galerie Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary, München,Germany

2006 Human touch, Sala Terrena, Salzburg, Austria

2006 Visum et Repertum, Stella Art Foundation, Moskau, Russland
2006 Modernes Abenteuer, Russisches Kulturinstitut, Vienna, Austria
2006 Ankäufe, Sammlung der Universität für angewandte Kunst 
Vienna, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna, Austria

2005 State of the art, SoS State Department & Embassy, Vienna, Austria
2005 Wasserspiegelbild, Galerie Wolfrum, Vienna, Austria

2004 Wolkenbilder, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

2003 State of the art, State of Sabotage, Vienna

2003 Open 2003, Art and the Cinematic Vision, Venedig

2003 Naturbeobachtungen, Galerie Engler + Piper, Berlin, Germany

2003 Zugluft – (Draught), Moskau, Russland
2002 digital room II, Fotografisk Center, Kopenhagen
2002 Vitra Austria: Julie Monaco, Isamu Noguchi, Jean Prouve, 
Vitra Austria GmbH, Vienna, Austria

2002 memorybank, KlausEngelhorn20, Vienna, Austria

2001 Bahnhof in Transition, Nordbahnhof/Praterstern, Vienna

2000 Chrysler + Greisler, KlausEngelhorn20, Wien

1999 Franz West und Werkstatt, Gallery Hohenlohe & Kalb, Vienna, Austria
1999 Incontro con Franz West, Centro Civico per l’Arte 
Contemporanea ‘la Grancia’, Serre di Rapolano, Siena, Italy
1997 Village, MKL Pistoletto, Vienna, Austria 

PROJECTS 
2014 Oper Köln: Otello, Projektion

2012 CD COVER: for Manifesto Karo, Vienna, Austria

2011 LP COVER: houztekk records, mund und ohr gefesselt, by DORN

2011 LP COVER: houztekk records, on a salty planet, by Hans Staudinger
2010/11 PANORAMA_LANDSCHAFT / ORTE DER ERINNERUNG Wandgestaltung der 
„Inseln“ im PFLEGEWOHNHEIM MEIDLING / KABELWERK, Austria

2006 BOOK Cover: cover for boys and sisters, Ursula Brochard, Verlag Schiffamt, Vienna, Austria

2000 BOOK Illustration: globalization, a scientific discussion?, Passagen Verlag, ISBN: 3-85165- 445-5 1999

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