Galerie Tschudi

Julian Charrière

Work by Julian Charrière

Biography

b. 1987, Morges (CH)

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Julian Charrière’s work is about the representation and perception of nature, and the traces and limits of human influence. His artistic approach reflects both historical and contemporary perspectives; he plays with the iconographies of landscape and the force of nature, as well as with our longing for authenticity and connection to nature. Charrière brings past, present and future into dialogue and makes different temporalities visible by allowing geological and human timescales to collide. Engaging with issues such as the effects of global warming or the treatment of the earth’s resources, his work addresses central discourses of the present.

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Work by Julian Charrière

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Julian Charrière

Midnight Zone – 37 Fathoms, 2025

Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth, mounted on aluminium Dibond, steel frame, ArtGlass anti-reflective glass
128.4 × 158 cm
2/3 (+2AP)
JC/F 299

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Work by Julian Charrière

2/17

Julian Charrière

Midnight Zone – 17 Fathoms, 2025

archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth, mounted on aluminium Dibond, steel frame, ArtGlass anti-reflective glass
61.5 × 50 cm (image)
63.5 × 52 × 3 cm (framed)
3/5 (+2AP)
JC/F 275

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Work by Julian Charrière

3/17

Julian Charrière

Midnight Zone – 179 Fathoms, 2025

archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth, mounted on aluminium Dibond, steel frame, ArtGlass anti-reflective glass
61.5 × 50 cm (image)
63.5 × 52 × 3 cm (framed)
3/5 (+2AP)
JC/F 276

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Work by Julian Charrière

4/17

Julian Charrière

Albedo 70.5 N°, 2025

archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic
70 × 88 cm (Image)
77.7 × 95.3 × 5 cm (framed)
1/5 (+2AP)
JC/F 283

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Work by Julian Charrière

5/17

Julian Charrière

Albedo 68.5 N°, 2025

archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic
70 × 88 cm (Image)
77.7 × 95.3 × 5 cm (framed)
1/5 (+2AP)
JC/F 284

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Work by Julian Charrière

6/17

Julian Charrière

Albedo 70.3 N°, 2025

archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Metallic
70 × 88 cm (Image)
77.7 × 95.3 × 5 cm (framed)
1/5 (+2AP)
JC/F 287

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Work by Julian Charrière

7/17

Julian Charrière

Coalface, 2024

anthracite coal, stainless steel oil lamp
84 × 58 × 8 cm
JC/S 113

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8/17

Julian Charrière

Soothsayer, 2021

anthracite coal, stainless steel
228.8 × 95 × 95.2 cm

Work by Julian Charrière

9/17

Julian Charrière

Vertigo, 2021

onyx, motor, lamp, soundtrack
JC/S 77

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10/17

Julian Charrière

After the Smoke Cradle | Gunung Bromo II, 2025

Four-color photolithography printed with pigments from obsidian, volcanic ash, lava and sulphur; basalt frame
140 × 180 cm (image)
146.8 × 186.8 × 4.5 cm (framed)
2/3(+2AP)
JC/F 271

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Work by Julian Charrière

11/17

Julian Charrière

An Invitation to Disappear – Pakang, 2018

Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, mounted on aluminium dibond, framed (walnut), Mirogard anti-reflective glass
153.8 × 191.3 cm
JC/F 95

Work by Julian Charrière

12/17

An Invitation to Disappear, 2018

Single-channel video installation, UHD color film, Ambisonics 3D-soundscape
Soundtrack by Inland
Format 2.35:1, 76'44"
JC/V 21

Work by Julian Charrière

13/17

Julian Charrière

Love-In Krakatoa, 2018

Borosilicate glass, stainless-steel, lamp, palm oil, distilled water
248 × 51.5 × 51.5 cm
JC/S 41

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14/17

Julian Charrière

Controlled Burn (Cooling Tower K.7), 2023

Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta, mounted on aluminium Dibond, framed (aluminium), ArtGlas anti-refective glass
220 × 150 cm (image)
228.5 × 152.8 × 4 cm (framed)
2/5 (+2AP)
JC/F 198

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Work by Julian Charrière

15/17

Julian Charrière

Pure Waste, 2021

FHD color video, 16:10 aspect ratio, stereo sound, 5 min 30 sec
JC/V 28

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16/17

Julian Charrière

Future Fossil Spaces – Set 9, 2017

salt from the Salar de uyuni, acrylic-containers filled with lithium-brine
286 × 156 × 150 cm
JC/S 39

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17/17

Julian Charrière

Tropisme, 2015

frozen plant, refrigerated showcase
208 × 66 × 66 cm
JC/S 12

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Books

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News

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Selected Press

Flash Art

Interview - Corals as Living Geology

Timothée Chaillou

4 May 2026

There is a particular elegance in the way Julian Charrière approaches catastrophe: never head-on, never didactic, but through a slow drift across temporal scales that quietly destabilize our certainties. His collaboration with Ruinart unfolds precisely in this suspended register, where deep time seeps into the present and renders the contemporary moment strangely provisional. Beneath the vineyards of Reims lies the memory of the Lutetian Sea — a submerged world whose residues persist in chalk, fossils, and now, in Charrière’s work, in sound, image, and matter itself.

40forever

Midnight Zone – Julian Charrière im Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

Dagmar Kluthe

22 April 2022

Seit etlichen Jahren ist Julian Charrière in Galerien und Museen omnipräsent. Schon 2011 sind seine Arbeiten in der Berliner Galerie Dittrich & Schlechtriem und 2015 in der Galerie Tschudi im Engadiner Zuoz ausgestellt. Heute bewerben sich zahllose namhafte Museen um seine Arbeiten und seit Mitte März ist „Midnight Zone“ die mit 48 Arbeiten bisher größte Einzelausstellung des Schweizers, im Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg zu sehen.

monopol

Podcast Kunst und Leben

Elke Buhr

31 March 2026

In meiner Arbeit schaue ich auf Reibungspunkte — positive und negative –, die menschliche Präsenz zeigen, bevor der Mensch selbst dort gewesen ist. Julian Charrière

TAZ

Floaten wie ein Belugawal

Claus Leggewie

7 April 2026

Den Raum bezeichnete der französische Philosoph Gaston Bachelard einmal „als Freund des Seins“. Der Satz hat es in sich. Vor allem unzugängliche Räume wie Wüsten und Ozeane entziehen sich dem gewohnten Ortssinn, aber auch sie werden vermessen und der materiellen Ausbeutung ausgeliefert.

Vakuum Magazin

Midnight Zone: Infrastructures of Extraction Beneath the Surface

Thinley Wingen

27 March 2026

At Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Julian Charrière constructs a sensory and epistemic environment in which deep-sea ecologies, resource economies, and image regimes collapse into one continuous field.

Kaltblut Magazine

Exploring the Depths

Marcel Schlutt

19 March 2026

Charrière’s multimedia works are a profound synthesis of art, environment, and science, emphasising the crucial role of water in sustaining life on Earth. This exhibition not only showcases the sensual and metaphorical dimensions of water but also addresses pressing political issues. Among these concerns are water pollution, acidification, the alarming melting of glaciers and polar ice caps due to climate change, and the risks posed by deep-sea mining to oceanic ecosystems.

Gourment on the Road

Hard Core: Mona unveils a new headliner

Windor Dobbrin

3 March 2026

French-Swiss artist Julian Charrière has been chosen as the next headliner at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart.
Charrière will present his first solo exhibition in Australia in Tasmania from June 6, 2026, to March 29, 2027.

Nasty Magazine

Resonant Independence

Annalisa Fabbrucci

February 2026

From ice expanses to the ocean’s depths, the artist situates his work within a broader dialogue between contemporary art and science. In anticipation of his upcoming solo exhibition at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (March 14 – July 12, 2026), he explores how environmental forces and rigorous research intertwine to redefine humanity’s role within planetary systems.

Wallpaper

Sounds of the ocean

Hannah Silver

19 September 2025

Julian Charrière brings the sounds of the ocean to Ruinart’s chalk cellars in Reims. Julian Charrière’s sound and light installation, ‘Chorals’, joins the worlds of environmental science and culture.

monopol

Die Welt auf Tauchstation

Felix von Boehm

10 June 2025

Während auf der UN-Konferenz in Nizza über die Zukunft der Ozeane gestritten wird, eröffnet der Künstler Julian Charrière in Basel die passende Ausstellung: eine große Erzählung vom Meer, aus dem wir alle kommen.

AD Magazin

So bringen sie gemeinsam Kunst, Umwelt und Menschen in Dialog

Felix Wagner

01.05.2025

In einer Welt, die zunehmend von den Folgen menschlicher Eingriffe in die Natur geprägt ist, erhebt sich die Kunst von Julian Charrière als kraftvolle Reflexion über die Beziehung zwischen Mensch, Technologie und Umwelt

Ignant

What the Land Remembers: Julian Charrière and Ruinart Engage in Conversations with Nature

Anna Dorothea Ker

April 2025

On the chalky soil of Champagne, time collects in layers. Ancient sea beds, slow-growing vines, and old-world rituals compound into to a future shaped by climate, conversation, and care. Maison Ruinart, with its nearly 300-year-old history, turns again towards the natural world for its latest artistic collaboration. In 2025, the house invites Swiss-born, Berlin-based artist Julian Charrière to contribute to its ongoing series Conversations with Nature. The result is a stirring meditation on coral, collapse, and continuity.

Louisana Channel

I want you to feel lost

Astrid Agnes Hald

February 2025

“You need to understand that you are lost to find your way."

Meet Swiss-born artist Julian Cherrière whose work fuses art, science, and anthropology.

Mousse

To Recognize Our Entanglement: Julian Charrière

01.04.2025

Julian Charrière seeks to cultivate a cultural consciousness around ecosystems undergoing irreversible transformation. Focusing on the entanglements between human and nonhuman systems, he explores how art can serve as a bridge between scientific understanding and emotional connection.

Neo2

Julian Charrière. Charla y narrativas del mundo natural

María Muñoz-Martínez

Issue 194

Una fusión de performance, instalación escultórica, video y fotografía, las obras del artista suizo-francés Julian Charrière surgen de investigaciones en lugares liminales.

Schmidt Ocean

Pursuing curiosity (ft. Julian Charrière) | Artist-at-Sea

January 2025

Julian Charrière is a French-Swiss artist living and working in Berlin. He explores ideas of nature and its transformation over deep geological as well as human historical time. Working across media and conceptual paradigms, Charrière frequently collaborates with composers, scientists, engineers, art historians, and philosophers. His work often provokes, inviting critical reflection upon cultural traditions of perceiving, representing, and engaging with the natural world.

Charrèire joined this expedition team via the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Artist-at-Sea program, which builds robust collaborations between artists and some of the world’s leading marine scientists.

Palais de Tokyo

ENTRETIEN AVEC JULIAN CHARRIÈRE

2024

Comment est né votre projet pour le Palais de Tokyo ? Comment s’inscrit-il dans votre pratique ?
Julian Charrière: J’ai toujours eu une fascination pour les paysages lithiques*, cachés sous la surface, inaccessibles, qui, d’une certaine manière, nous dépassent, mais sur lesquels tout repose. Ces paysages souterrains ont permis notre évolution en tant qu’espèce. Nous avons toujours extrait des profondeurs de la Terre des matières qui nous ont permis de nous élever, de dépasser les frontières imposées par nos corps. Du caillou ancestral au monocristal de silice, l’histoire de l’humanité est une histoire de notre lien au monde lithique.

Whitewall

Julian Charrière’s Ongoing “Calls for Action”

Andrew Huff

15 November 2024

In an interview with Whitewall, Charrière discussed the monumental significance of 2024 and the many important shows and projects he has opened, highlights from his recent shows, the work he has done with “Calls for Action,” and what is coming next.

Beaux Arts Magazine

Dans l’atelier de l’artiste chercheur Julian Charrière, exposé bientôt au Palais de Tokyo

Rose Vidal

9 Septembre 2024

Arpenter des zones irradiées, escalader des icebergs fatigués, écouter les entrailles de la terre : l’artiste chercheur Julian Charrière explore la nature et s’y confronte pour en restituer les blessures, les murmures et les pleurs, montrant la vérité de la planète à l’heure de l’anthropocène. Rencontre à Berlin dans son atelier, avant un solo show en octobre au Palais de Tokyo, à Paris.

BrooklynRail

Julian Charrière with Hearne Pardee

Hearne Pardee

March 2023

To investigate the world’s formation and future, Julian Charrière explores landscapes through the lens of geological history and discovers poetry in material processes that connect us to the natural world. In his vision, science verges on the uncanny, a mystical fusion of light and materials.

Kunstbulletin

Julian Charrière — Opulenz und Orakel

Jens Bülskämper

March 2023

Er lässt gut aussehen, was ökologische Sorgen bereitet: Julian Charrière zeigt in Neuss verkohltes Teakholz und verstrahlte Kokosnüsse. Eine Solarkraftanlage darf als ortsspezifische Ins- tallation die Schau mit Energie versorgen, und auch zwei Robo- ter bemühen sich redlich, dass der Funke überspringt.

NZZ

Diese Kunst ist radioaktiv verseucht

Annegret Erhard

8 June 2019

Der Schweizer Julian Charrière ist ein Umweltaktivist, der mit den subtilen Mitteln der Kunst arbeitet. Er bereist fotografierend, filmend, tauchend und experimentierend Asien, die Pole, Russland. Damit reiht er sich besonders erfolgreich in die heutige Avantgarde forschender Künstler ein.

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