Contemporary Art
Julie Kogler
is an art historian, and works as an art critic and curator.
She was born and grew up in Hamburg. After having passed the German abitur she moved to Italy, eager to follow up her passion for the Italian art and culture. Soon, whenever she undertook numerous trips to the most relevant cultural sites of past art epochs, accordingly she was also able to become acquainted with well-known artists and galleries of the contemporary art scene.After having done her doctorate in art history at the renowned university of Bologna, in the qualification courses of DAMS (Discipline dell’Arte, della Musica e dello Spettacolo), she specialized in contemporary art expressions, which from that moment onward she started to review in art catalogues and learned journals, as well as presenting them in the setting of exhibitions and international projects.
She lives between Rome and Hamburg and curates art shows in well-known museums and institutions like MACRO - Museo dell’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (Museum of Contemporary Art - Rome), Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini (Rome), National Museum of Castel Sant’Angelo (Rome), Museum Palazzo Corvaja (Taormina), Fondazione Le Stelline (Milan), Museum La Permanente (Milan) etc. and on behalf of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Berlin). Likewise, has she cooperated with different art galleries, among them Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea (Milan), Independent Ideas (Milan), Allegrini Arte (Brescia), Mondo Bizzarro Gallery (Rome), Strychnin Gallery (Berlin), Magda Danysz Gallery (Paris), Jonathan LeVine Gallery (New York), Merry Karnowsky Gallery (Los Angeles) and other institutes.
As a founder and director of the organization of Neo Pop Factory whose intention is to promote and to publicize innovative art, she supports the cultural exchange of artists from different origins through gallery exhibitions and also through art events being curated by her in public institutions, such as Neo Pop Factory Night - live in the Museum of Castel Sant’Angelo, under the patronage of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
At times she makes available some of the most representative artworks of this collection for being shown in museum exhibitions. Neo Pop Factory has contributed to realize cultural art events wherein contemporary artists collaborated with international companies, for example when Roman artist Elio Varuna was sponsored by BMW Mini at Centrale Montemartini (contemporary art residence of the Musei Capitolini).
In 2009, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, she was officially engaged by the Municipality of Rome to curate the exhibition “Apocalypse Wow!” at the MACRO Museum, where she was able to show artworks from 40 artists of different novel art expressions such as Neo Pop Art, Pop Surrealism and Urban Art - for the first time ever - in a public museum in Italy. In 2010 she became a jury member of the art contest “Premio Cairo” (Museum La Permanente, Milan) and in 2018 of “Premio Adrenalina” (Rome).
Furthermore, she has contributed to realizing and arranging the international Street Art festival “Emergence” in Giardini- Naxos (Taormina) in Sicily. Julie Kogler chairs conferences relating to art (for example at the art fair Arte Fiera of Bologna) and on the occasion of museum exhibitions (Popism - Museum Palazzo Corvaja, Taormina).
Moreover, she has written quite a number of essays and monographs in art catalogues (dedicated to Andy Warhol or to Pop Art, to name but a few) by order of notable publishing companies and magazines (for example Mondadori, Silvana Editoriale, Damiani, Exibart), and thereby she has contributed her recensions to public exhibitions (Biennale di Venezia, Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Fondazione Stelline - Milan).
