Julia Phillips

The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, in cooperation with the Freunde der Kunstsammlung (Friends K20 K21) and with generous financial support from the Reydan + Roger Weiss Foundation, has awarded the annual art prize K21 Global Art Award for the forth time.

Alongside works on paper and videos, Julia Phillips works primarily with ceramics and metal, creating sculptures reminiscent of functional objects. Her works are metaphors for social and psychological experiences, metaphors that are both mechanical and bodily, and that typically focus on experiences of power relations between individuals or between an individual and an institution. Recently, Phillips has turned her focus towards the inside of the body, portraying organs and growths as well as references to the medical environment to challenge perceptions of subject-object relationships within the care industry. Phillips lives and works in Chicago.