Still from "The Familiar", 2021
About
Julian Quentin (*1999) lives and works in Zurich and Cologne. Their work currently revolves around normative realities (/realities?) and often employs fantastic and sci-fi premises, working with film, installation and performance.
Julian studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.
CV
Education
2018 - today
2017
Academy of Media Arts Cologne KHM
3 month acting intensive at "Schauspielfabrik Berlin"
Selected Festivals
Exhibitions (e) / Performances (p) / Interventions (i) / group (g)
2023 (g)
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Videonale.19 // Bonn, Germany
"Territory", projection
2023 (g)
Vidéoformes // Clermont-Ferrand, France
"Territory", projection
2023 (g)
Traverse Vidéo // Toulouse, France
"Territory", projection
2022 (i, g)
Cologne Philharmonic, Acht Brücken Festival // Cologne, Germany
Sound installation
Bathroom Stalls
2022 (e, i, g)
Apollo Building, 701 e.V. // Düsseldorf, Germany
Installation
"False Spring"
2022 (e, g)
Kunst Werk e.V. // Cologne, Germany
Installation
"Photographic Utopia"
2021 (e, g)
IKOB Museum for Contemporary Art // Eupen, Belgium
Installation
"Bodies in between"
2021 (p)
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf // Düsseldorf, Germany
Performance with installation
"Journey through a body"
2021 (e, g)
Studio for Artistic Research // Düsseldorf, Germany
Installation
"A WAREHOUSE"
2021 (i)
Ebertplatz billboards // Cologne, Germany
Photography
"Offene Plakatwände"
2021(i, g)
urban advertisement pillars // Düsseldorf, Germany
Photography
„Public Art – Litfaßsäule als Massenmedium“
2020 (i, g)
Various Subway Stations // Cologne, Germany
Video
Ströer Video Billboards
2019 (e, g)
KHM Foyer // Cologne, Germany
Photography work in group show
"MAXIMAL"
2023
2022
2021
2021
2021
2021
2018
Solothurner Filmtage, Switzerland
Raindance Film Festival, UK
Frameline, San Francisco International LGBTQ+
Film Festival, USA
NewFest, LGBTQ+ Film and Media, New York, USA
Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, HK
Seattle Queer Film Festival, USA
Pink Apple Film Festival Zurich, CH
Awards
2023
2023
2023
2023
2018
2017
2017
2016
"Gold FiSH" Award @ Fish Filmfestival im Stadthafen, Rostock, 2023 for "Territory"
SR-Innovation Award @ Bundesfestival junger Film
Prize of the Youth Jury @ Bundesfestival junger Film
"Luzerner Nachwuchsfilmpreis (Lucerne Young Filmmakers Award) @Upcoming Filmmakers 2018
"SAE Förderpreis" (SAE award) @Filmfestival Schaffhausen 2017
"Luzerner Nachwuchsfilmpreis" (Lucerne Young Filmmakers Award) @Upcoming Filmmakers 2017
"Bester Film" (Best Picture) @Zuger Filmtage 2016 for