Studio Ganek organises a research and production residency for artist Julie Kieffer at Fonderia Battaglia in Milan.

This one-month residency in November 2022 leads to the Adréanaline exhibition by Julie Kieffer at Spazio Bidet (Milanà, in March 2023 and at Polaris (Corbas), during her exhibition with Lisa Duroux, curated by Leila Couradin in January 2023.

This project allows her work to be exhibited in Italy for the first time and to develop her career in this territory. This project will be supervised by curator Magalie Meunier, who will assist the artist and set several meetings between the artist and diverse audiences (professionals, adult amateurs, kids, thanks to the French Institute of Milan).

NOVEMBER 2022
• Residency at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia
During her residency at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia (one month), Julie Kieffer will continue her research in sculpture based on motocross clothes. She will use for the first time the process of bronze thawing.

• Meeting program
Magalie Meunier, the curator of the exhibition, will assist the artist in her research and set several meetings between the artist and diverse audiences (thanks to the French Institute of Milan and Fonderia Battaglia).

JANUARY 2023
• Exhibition De cadence et d’amour, Lisa Duroux and Julie Kieffer, Le Polaris de Corbas.
This exhibition by Julie Keiffer and Lisa Duroux will introduce (among other works) the produced artworks at Fonderia Battaglia. Leïla Couradin is the curator of this exhibition, and the associated curator for the 2022-2023 season at Polaris.

MARCH 2023
• Discussion between Julie Kieffer and Magalie Meunier at the French Institute of Milan

• Exhibition Adrénaline at Spazio Bidet
The personal exhibition by Julie Kieffer at Spazio Bidet (Milan) is the first introduction of the artist in Italy. The produced artworks during her residency at Fonderia Battaglia will be exhibited. Magalie Meunier is the curator of this exhibition, who wrote a text on the artist on the occasion.

Julie Kieffer is born in 1989 in Evian-les-bains. Graduated from Villa Arson in 2026, she lives between Clermont-Ferrand and Lyon and works within the Ateliers.

In 2018, she is a resident at la Friche Lamartine (Lyon), and the Factatory (Lyon). En parallèle, At the same time, she gets the grant of the Ateliers Médicis pour le projet Création en Cours developed within a primary school in Jura.
She participates in several exhibitions : in 2019, Attrapes Couleurs, in resonance with Lyon’s biennial, Arteppes of Annecy, and Atelier Sumo in Lyon; in 2020, Saint-Etienne Carbon Biennial and Sentiers des Arts of Aquitaine, in 2021, Grrr Zéro in Lyon and the basculeur. Simultaneously, she has been developing since 2019 the project Super Sapin, selling artists and designers artworks to give off their works and offer a friendly visibility.

‌Julie Kieffer’s work is about apprehending landscapes, transposing them in installations, hence making the territory in which it takes place crucial.
Her practice is between installation and drawing. Connecting real space and one added-on, her work summons landscape, construction and domestic sphere. She uses the image of the garden as territory, because of its scale and its mouldable aspect : “I work by starters, layers, using the ground or the wall as a base and layering shots or scenes.”

More recently, the artist works on a series of sculptures connected to clothes used in motocross. Wax or resin sculptures take the mark of textile and the shape of articulation. She will develop this research in the company using for the first time bronze technique.


A project supported by the French Institute, the city of Lyon, DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and the French Institut of Milan.


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