Julia Karpov understands painting as an improvisatory, almost musical process, the brush becomes a baton, painting becomes a performance as well as an object at the same time. The artist understands her practice, which combines painting with writing, performance, sculpture and film, as a total work of art: not only as a producer of images, but as the embodiment of a continuous artistic process. Themes such as spirituality, existence, social ruptures and the question of creating beyond external expectations run through her work.

Text by Paula Marschalek, art historian and cultural manager (Translated from German).