Julia Katolla

Truly honoured to have been invited to serve as a member of the international jury panel for “Design Nexus” presented by Re/Craft and the Festival.
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“Design Nexus” showcases how art and design can shape future society through collaboration, technology, and cultural storytelling. Featured works were selected from 1,000+ international submissions.

Link in bio 🙏

Absolutely thrilled to be interviewed by Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art 🙏

is an independent artist-run art magazine/ platform and gallery based in Barcelona. It is rooted in a decade-long mission to encourage dialogue between the West and the Arab world through contemporary art.

To read the full interview head to the link in my bio.

“Keeping it together” - II
20 x 20 cm
Collage, ink, and hand sewing on paper

“I make art
in the gaps,
in the margins,
in the breath between needs.

Motherhood didn’t steal my voice,
it taught me how to sing
with less air. “

’s words come closest to naming the past year.
Between broken bones, hospital waiting rooms, day jobs, family needs, and some private and professional curveballs, my breath for painting was scarce. Still, when it came, it mattered.. essential and quietly sustaining.

Here’s to keeping New Year’s resolutions until late January, and then going back to the reliable practice of taking life as it comes.

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Thank you so much for the feature among so many great artists.

Beautiful issue 47 is available digitally and in print, link in bio ❤️

“Keeping it together”
20 x 20 cm
Collage, ink, and hand sewing on paper
First one of a series of four

Thrilled to be featured in the beautiful 47th issue of

The double edition (No. 47 & 48) comprises interviews and features of 55 artists from 16+ countries. Available now in both print and digital form (link in bio, as tradition demands).

My featured works are also available as certified limited edition prints via and online. Because beauty deserves paperwork (Link in bio)

I can’t remember the last time I worked on a painting from start to finish in one day.
I‘ve been notoriously avoiding the big canvas that is rolled up in the back of my studio waiting to come to life. In the past weeks I’ve filled my time wandering around between an unsettlingly big amount of unfinished paintings, only working on bits and pieces here and there.
So, despite it being a small painting, this one today is a win.

Conception
20 x 20 cm
Gouache and collage on paper

Life Unraveling

Series of three small works
15 x 10 cm
Ink and acrylic on paper.

Thank you for a gloriously spontaneous evening between yoga, sake and the artistic universe of