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Pauline Julier

Pauline Julier is a Swiss French artist and filmmaker whose practice explores the connections people forge with the world around them through stories, rituals, knowledge, and images. Interweaving documentary, theoretical, and fictional elements, her films and installations reflect the complexity of human relationships with the environment, drawing links between scientific findings and mythological narratives to offer shifting perspectives on our place in the world. Her works have been presented in major contemporary art centers, institutions, and festivals globally, including the Centre Pompidou (Paris), Loop (Barcelona), Visions du Réel (Nyon), Wiels (Bruxelles), ZKM (Karlsruhe), and Tokyo Wonder Site. A two-time recipient of the Swiss Art Award (2010, 2021) and the ‘‘Mondes Nouveaux’’ grant from the French Cultural Department (2022), and her solo show Naturalis Historia toured internationally after opening at the Centre culturel suisse in Paris (2017). She presented a major solo exhibition at Aargauer Kunsthaus (Switzerland) in 2024 and made her first fiction feature film, Les Indes, in 2026.
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  • media studies
  • cultural history
  • life sciences
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  • music
  • art history
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