Still from "The Familiar", 2021
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About
Julian Quentin (*1999, he/they) lives and works in Zurich and Cologne. Julian's 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.
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CV
Education
2018 - today
2017
Academy of Media Arts Cologne KHM
3 month acting intensive at "Schauspielfabrik Berlin"
Selected Festivals
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Exhibitions (e) / Performances (p) / Interventions (i) / group (g)
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2023 (g)
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Videonale.19 // Bonn, Germany
"Territory", projection
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2023 (g)
Vidéoformes // Clermont-Ferrand, France
"Territory", projection
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2023 (g)
Traverse Vidéo // Toulouse, France
"Territory", projection
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2022 (i, g)
Cologne Philharmonic, Acht Brücken Festival // Cologne, Germany
Sound installation
Bathroom Stalls
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2022 (e, i, g)
Apollo Building, 701 e.V. // Düsseldorf, Germany
Installation
"False Spring"
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2022 (e, g)
Kunst Werk e.V. // Cologne, Germany
Installation
"Photographic Utopia"
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2021 (e, g)
IKOB Museum for Contemporary Art // Eupen, Belgium
Installation
"Bodies in between"
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2021 (p)
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf // Düsseldorf, Germany
Performance with installation
"Journey through a body"
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2021 (e, g)
Studio for Artistic Research // Düsseldorf, Germany
Installation
"A WAREHOUSE"
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2021 (i)
Ebertplatz billboards // Cologne, Germany
Photography
"Offene Plakatwände"
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2021(i, g)
urban advertisement pillars // Düsseldorf, Germany
Photography
„Public Art – Litfaßsäule als Massenmedium“
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2020 (i, g)
Various Subway Stations // Cologne, Germany
Video
Ströer Video Billboards
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2019 (e, g)
KHM Foyer // Cologne, Germany
Photography work in group show
"MAXIMAL"
2023
2022
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2021
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2021
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2018
Solothurner Filmtage, Switzerland
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Raindance Film Festival, UK
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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
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Pink Apple Film Festival Zurich, CH
Awards
2023
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2018
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2017
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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