Julian Simon

Born in Wermelskirchen in 1994, Julian Simon lives and works in Berlin, where he studied painting at the Weißensee Academy of Fine Arts. Torn from the Berlin parties he portrayed in his early years, Julian Simon reinvents his artistic practice during the lockdowns by modeling little sculptures of clay, and reproducing them with oil paint. Childlike in their rough forms and pop colors, these clay sculptures contrast with the linearity of the realistic scenes depicted in the background, which are...Read more