Julika Gittner is an artist and an architect. She uses sculpture, performance and video in her art practice and works as an independent curator.
Her curatorial/art practice explores the critical function of display by creating spatial confrontations of art works with non-art audiences and non-art spaces. These works aim at exposing the difference between cultural reflection and social reality and include building a temporary exhibition space on an empty site, exhibiting contemporary art works in a community centre and shortening the duration of an exhibition to a dramatic one night event.
Her architectural practice explores the social role of architecture, particularly in relation to cultural institutions. It includes the design of a modular exhibition space for a secondary school in Bethnal Green that functions as an independent contemporary art gallery. She is currently working on the realisation of an art and architecture commission for the Palmach Museum in Tel Aviv where she used the geometry of the architecture to generate an image that will be printed directly onto the interior surface of the building.
