Julian Charrière (Morges, Switzerland, 1987) is a French-Swiss artist based in Berlin, whose work has been widely exhibited across esteemed institutions and museums around the globe. Marshaling performance, sculpture and photography, his projects often stem from remote field workin liminal or discarded locations, such as volcanoes, ice field sand radioactive sites. By encountering places where a cute geophysical identities have formed, Charrière speculates on alternative histories, often looking at materials through the lens of deep geological time. Exploring how our ideas of nature have changed, from the Romantic movement into the Anthropocene, his projects deconstruct the cultural traditions which govern how we perceive and represent the natural world. A former student of Olafur Eliasson’s Institute for Spatial Experiments, Charrière frequently collaborates with scientists, engineers, art historians and philosophers. Whether undertaking artistic expeditions or staging immersive installations, the core of his practice concerns itself with how the human being inhabits the world, and how it in turn inhabits us.

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