Julia Adelgren’s paintings are an address to the sensual, characterised by a prismatic palette - gothic purples and saccharine pinks - and a distinct use of world-building, blending the fantastical and idealistic with a quiet, earthy solipsism.

Adelgren’s use of landscape is suggestively allegorical, drawn intuitively to the mythic and the ideal. Children explore sublime viewscapes and mountainous coves; trees glow magically, butterflies twinkle, shadows sparkle. Though each work has its own distinct tableau, like chapters in a fairytale compendium, or postcards from a paradisaic destination, the same world-building thrums throughout. The works span corners of a world familiar, but unknown: sunsets rippling over pearlescent water; the sky through gnarled woods; a riverbank, heady and red. Here, the works take on a strange tense, feeling heavy with the memory of places that never existed, simulacral.

Born 1990 in Stockholm, Sweden
Lives and works in Copenhagen

Education
2014 – 2016 Bergen National Academy of Art
2016 - 2020 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, in the class of Prof. Tomma Abts

Recent exhibitions include, Roseate Nights, ADZ, Lisbon, (2024), ACT IV - The Balcony, Ombrella, Copenhagen, Denmark, ( Dragonfly Den, MAMOTH, UK, (2022) A Room of Ones Own, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2022).