The interdisciplinary artist Julie Laenkholm had a lecture-discussion on October 17th, 2016 at the Klaipeda faculty of Vilnius Academy of Arts.
Julie Laenkholm is a New York based emerging artist born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Julie works in various mediums and defines herself as a sculptor. Her practice unfolds itself in a ritualistic manner with a provisional approach to materials. Her work has conversation with new materialism by exploring ‘the physicality of the in-between’ in the dialectic relationship between the body and its surroundings. She creates what she calls sculptural situations by both physical sculptures and site specific performance pieces. This year she has been working with the local fishermen in Seydisfjordur, Iceland, with a song pieces by the local gas station which is their daily meeting point for morning coffee. In august she opened her first Icelandic solo exhibition at Húsavík Museum with a series of wool paintings and “open performance nights” with locals at the museum the July, performences by at the towns parkinglot at the opening day, and the poster.
Julie Laenkholm received her Masters degree in Fine Arts from Parsons The New for Design in 2015 with a full scholarship as the first Danish female. During her graduate years, she was a scholar at The Bikuben Foundation of New York, among various grants, like The New School Student Senate Grant, she received 'The Klint award' in 2015 for her work with light.
