Julika Gittner // Profile

Outdoor Relief - Stratford

Julika Gittner is an artist and an architect. She uses sculpture, performance and video to investigate forms of artistic production and display outside the purpose built gallery space. Her architectural practice includes the commission of an interior design for the auditorium of the Palmach Museum in Tel Aviv (in collaboration with R.Segal and Z.Hecker) as well as the design of a mobile gallery space for a secondary school in East London. Julika is also the curator of a number of exhibition projects including ‘From the Picturesque to the Demolished’ (2008) which explore the social role of art and architecture. Her next exhibition ‘Scare in the Community’ (October 2009 in collaboration with Jon Purnell) will showcase art works by mental health day centre users and contemporary artists and aims to challenge the segregation of so called ‘outsider art’. She teaches on the BA in Architecture at Greenwich University and the Art & Architecture Foundation Course at Byamshaw School of Art. She lectures on the history of London’s Architecture at Central Saint Martins and City University.

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