About
Julia Runge was born in Berlin in 1990, lived from 2010 to 2012 in Namibia and has been working in southern Africa for more than ten years. She completed her degree in photography in 2015 with the photography project „Basterland“ at the Ostkreuzschule in Berlin. In her photographic work, Julia Runge primarily deals with social commitment and social structures as well as cultural topics in southern Africa. She uses her natural and empathetic pictorial language to open an artistic insight into the subject. Julia currently lives and works in Berlin.
UPCOMING:
29th October exhibition opening @die Muschel in Swakopmund, Namibia
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The world is in an exceptional situation due to the Corona pandemic, which will fundamentally change the lives of people everywhere. It has long been clear that women and girls are not only the hardest hit by the acute effects of the crisis, but that their efforts for self-determination, independence and equality will be permanently damaged. The reason for this is the still patriarchal structures in many countries of Southern Africa, whose strengthening during the crisis can be seen not least in the rising numbers of forced prostitution and domestic violence. In these societies, women are given an overflowing responsibility in the dual role of provider and housewife. In addition to caring for young and old family members, they work hard every day to provide the family with access to food and drinking water.
—> I will return to Namibia in a few weeks to document, among other things, the current situation of women there ++++ also provide help and support where it is needed. For my upcoming projects, I’ve teamed up with the amazing journalist Lisa Ossenbrink. I can’t wait to get started with our work. – Stay tuned!
Thanks to VG-Bildkunst and Deutsch-Namibische Gesellschaft e.V. for supporting my work!!!
EXHIBITIONS:
2021 Award Winning African Photography – photo basel Takes a Closer Look
2020 Shebeen Queens at Trieste Photo Days -> exhibition at the “Sartorio” Museum Trieste, ITA
2020 Shebeen Queens at Château de LaLande seeingWOMAN Award 2020, FRA
2020 Shebeen Queens at Ilham Gallery (KLPA 2020 Award exhibition), Kuala Lumpur
2020 Shebeen Queens at Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin, DE
2020 Shebeen Queens at International Portrait/Fashion Exhibition in Orlando, FL
2020 Solo Exhibition „Shebeen Queens“ at R. – Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin, DE
2019 Solo Exhibition „Basterland“ at Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin, DE
2018 Basterland at Lyonel-Feininger-Galerie , Quedlinburg, DE
2017 Solo Exhibition at Jammin Galerie, Berlin, DE
2016 Basterland at Photokina, Köln, DE
2016 Basterland at Uganda Press Photo Award, Kampala, Uganda
2016 Basterland at LagosPhoto Festival, Lagos, Nigeria
2016 Basterland at Tan Gallery, 798 Art District Beijing, China
2016 Lead a Photography Workshop for Goethe Institut in Beijing, China
2016 Basterland at Heuberg 24 – Raum für Kunst, Basel, CH
2016 Basterland at Image Afrique in Basel, CH
2016 Basterland at the 21th Voies Off Festival, Arles, FRA
2016 Basterland at Photobastei Zürich, Zurich, CH
2016 Basterland at the Panacée – Centre for Contemporary Art, Montpellier, FRA
2016 Basterland & POPCAP ’16 at Nuit des Images, Lausanne, CH
2016 Hellerau Portraits, Basterland, Dresden Hellerau, DE
2015 OHO Abschlussaustellung Ostkreuzschule, Basterland, HO Berlin, DE
2015 Art @ SAP, Growing Hope, SAP Walldorf, DE
2014 Entrepreneur 4.0 Award, Growing Hope, Igersheim, DE
AWARDS:
2021 INITIAL Special Grant by the Akademie der Künste
2021 Project funding by Stiftung Kulturwerk der VG Bild-Kunst & Deutsch-Namibische Gesellschaft e.v. , What the Storm Has Left
2021 Digital Residency with pacificoritualyresistencia, Columbia/Berlin
2020 Bronze Medal German Photo Book Award (Category: Documentary-Journalistic Photo Book), Shebeen Queens
2020 Honorable Mention (Category People) Neutral Density Photography Award 2021, Shebeen Queens
2020 Honorable Mention (Category Analog / Film : Portrait) IPA 2020, Shebeen Queens
2020 Winning Project of the „Sartorio“ Museum Trieste prize-exhibition, Shebeen Queens
2020 Finalist Urban Photo Awards 2020, Shebeen Queens
2020 Projekt Grant Finalist Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards 2020 (Portrait Prize) , Shebeen Queens
2020 Honorable Mention (Category Equality – Egalité) seeingWOMAN Award 2020 (Photos de Femmes), Shebeen Queens
2020 Honorable Mention (Category Portrait Series) Annual Photography Awards 2019, Shebeen Queens
2019 Scholarship Robert Bosch Foundation / Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, Shebeen Queens
2016 Prizewinner Deutscher Jugendfotopreis 2016, Category D, Basterland
2016 Winner POPCAP ’16, the piclet.org Prize for Contemporary African Photography, Basterland
2016 4th Place PhotoVisions Förderpreis, Basterland
2015 Nominee Category Photojournalism – Fine Art Photography Award, Basterland
2014 Winner Audience Prize Entrepreneur 4.0 Photography Award 2014, Growing Hope
2014 2nd Place Entrepreneur 4.0 Photography Award – Category „Young Talents“, Growing Hope
APPEARANCES:
Neues Deutschland – nd der Tag
Kwerfeldein about „Shebeen Queens“
Interview for Africa in the Photobook
ZITTY Berlin
Welt der Frauen (Österreich)
Stern Magazin
Neues Deutschland – Tageszeitung
Namibia Magazine
Lust auf Gut (Republic of Culture) Magazin
Fotopraxis mit Perspektive, Fotofeinkost Verlag, 2014
„Nachdruck“ Magazin
PHOTOGRAPHIE Magazine
Chaeg South Korean Magazine
Pagina 99 Italien