Julia Dubsky, THEATRICALITY, CONVENTIONS

Julia Dubsky (b. 1990, Dublin) is a Berlin-based painter whose work principally explores mimetic relationships between perception and what is depicted. Her artist lecture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nürnberg, will address ideas of theatricality and acting in painting.

Dubsky completed her BA at NCAD, Dublin, in 2016, and she was the recipient of the TBG+S Recent Graduate Residency in 2017/18. From 2018 to 2021, she studied in the MFA program at HfBK, Hamburg, in the class of Jutta Koether. 

Recent solo exhibitions include .A at Kirchgasse Gallery, Steckborn (2023–24); M/modesty (2020/21) and The Marshland Akimbo (2019) at Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London; and Wild About Actor Becky’s, Berlin (2021). Dubsky was the Art School Alliance resident at Goldsmiths University in Spring 2020, funded by DAAD and the Karl Heine Dietz Stiftung. She has received the Arts Council of Ireland Bursary Award (2022), and she will do the Heinrich Böll residency on Achill Island, Ireland, in August 2025. She has published two artist books of essays: M/m.A (2023) with New Toni Press, Berlin, and M/modesty (2021) with Material Verlag, Hamburg. Her work continues to explore themes of theatricality, doubt, and the evolving place for painting within contemporary art discourse. Julia’s forthcoming solo show at Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London, takes place in Autumn 2025.