Julia Sossinka is a multidisciplinary visual artist who studied Fine Arts as a master student of Prof. Markus Lüpertz at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and currently lives and works in Berlin. She is an artist who always raises a question about the dimensions of organic structures, processes of growth, and painting extending beyond the confines of the canvas, based on immersive installations, painting, and paper collages.

Her latest practice, “Unfolding the Unknown,” is an exploration of rupture as a process of transformation. From her recent methodology—tearing painted paper, layering, and transforming discarded or unfinished pieces into dimensional shapes—the artist tries to bring paper back to our reality as a purely sculptural material. The simultaneous destruction and reconstruction of color-rich fragments are continuously confronted with the structural laws of nature. She describes her work as an immersive, sensory experience filled with vitality, where painterly forms step directly into the viewer's physical space. Her work is rooted in a fascination with open-ended, constantly evolving transitional states, merging a highly tactile richness of color within the form of a poetic deconstruction of surface and space.

Sossinka’s distinguished career is marked by international residency fellowships—including invitations to Switzerland, Greece, and France—and professional appointments to various public Art-in-Architecture expert juries. She regularly exhibits her work at prominent international art fairs and institutions, such as Art Karlsruhe, Paper Positions Berlin and Vienna, the San Francisco Art Fair, and the Lost Art Festival in Berlin.

Education & Training

Seit 2009

Freelance visual artist, Berlin, Germany

2023–2025

Jury Member / Deputy for public Art-in-Architecture competitions (e.g., school extensions in Kreuzberg and Tempelhof), Berlin, Germany

2016

Jury Member for the Department of Further Education & District Culture Work, Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin, Germany

2009

Diploma (Fine Arts), Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany

2008

Master Student Degree (Meisterschülerin) of Prof. Markus Lüpertz, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany

2003–2009

Studies in Fine Arts, Class of Prof. Markus Lüpertz, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany

Exhibition & Projects (Selection)

2026

Overflow, One-Artist-Show Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany (Presented by ARTBASE GALLERY)

A New Dawn in Color, Galerie SIGHT, Offenbach, Germany

Artgate Project, Warehouse C, Port of Thessaloniki, Greece

2025

Fifty Shades of Green, ARTBASE GALLERY, Wiesbaden, Germany (Solo exhibition)

Paper Positions Vienna, Vienna, Austria (Presented by ARTBASE GALLERY)

San Francisco Art Fair, San Francisco, USA (Presented by 1202 Contemporary)

Unfolding, bEam arts, Thessaloniki, Greece

Discovery Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany

2024

Into the Blue, ARTBASE GALLERY, Wiesbaden, Germany (Solo exhibition)

Paper Positions Berlin, Berlin, Germany (Presented by ARTBASE GALLERY)

BAAM, Monopol, Berlin, Germany

2023

Jungle Affairs, ARTBASE GALLERY, Wiesbaden, Germany (Solo exhibition)

Over the Rainbow, Kunstverein Markdorf e.V., Markdorf, Germany (Solo exhibition)

Luxembourg Art Week, Luxembourg (Presented by ARTBASE GALLERY)

Witches & Bitches, Fondation WhiteSpaceBlackBox, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

2022

Mistral, Galerie Probst, Berlin, Germany (Solo exhibition)

Berliner Luft, Kunstverein Schwäbisch Gmünd, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany (Solo exhibition)

Himmel unter Berlin, Alte Brauerei, Berlin, Germany

Scope Art Fair, Miami, USA (Presented by Gallery 1202)

2021

Lost Art Festival, Umspannwerk Reinickendorf, Berlin, Germany