Julian Charrière

Julian Charrière is a Swiss-French artist based in Berlin whose work explores the cultural and environmental histories embedded in natural landscapes. Through film, sculpture, photography and installation, his multidisciplinary practice collapses geological and human timescales, revealing the often-invisible forces that shape both terrains and historical imaginaries. His projects are frequently grounded in fieldwork at ecologically and symbolically charged sites – glaciers, volcanoes, nuclear test zones, and deep-sea ecosystems – where he examines how human activity inscribes itself in the fabric of the planet. Fusing scientific observation with speculative poetics, Charrière presents landscapes as processes, archives of memory and sites of cultural imagination. His work has been widely exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Museum Tinguely, ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Palais de Tokyo, SFMOMA, Dallas Museum of Art, Langen Foundation and MAMbo, as well as presentations at Centre Pompidou, Fondation Beyeler and Mori Art Museum. In 2024, he received the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize awarded by MOCA Los Angeles.

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