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ioulex is an artist duo.
Through an ethereal approach to photography and filmmaking, Julia Koteliansky and Alexander Kerr explore the invisible connections between the natural and the human made, the overlap between the concrete and the surreal. Their editorial portraits, fashion and reportage stories have been published internationally, commissioned by The New Yorker, the New York Times, M le Monde, TIME and ZEITmagazin among others. ioulex’s work was the subject of solo exhibitions at Pavlov’s Dog gallery in Berlin and Audio Visual Arts (AVA) gallery in New York. Their experimental short films have been screened as part of official selection of ASVOFF festival at Centre Pompidou and Dover Street Market Paris, Dance on Camera at Symphony Space, The Museum of Art and Design, Parsons Gallery, NOWNESS, and Vogue Italia. Julia and Alexander met as students at Parsons School of Design in Paris. They reside with their daughter in New York.
select exhibitions & screenings
On Earth as it is in Heaven with Christian Joy at Neighbors, Chinatown NYC
The Year of the Green Snake at Dance on Camera festival, Symphony Space, NYC
America, the beautiful? at NOMAA gallery, NYC
Divergence at Time Pieces Gallery, Art Basel, Miami
Uncanny Valley curated by Obscura in Mecenate Fine Art, Rome
Martha’s Dream screening at Diane Pernet's A Shaded View on Fashion Film festival at 3537, Paris
Otherworldly: Performance, Costume and Difference at Parsons School of Design, New York
RFD (Recipes for Disaster) at Pavlov’s Dog, Berlin
A Still Life with Flowers in 4 Parts at Audio Visual Arts (AVA), New York
Carpet Death at Audio Visual Arts (AVA), New York, Monty, Antwerp and De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
A Mon Seul Desir in collaboration with Mogollon at Diane Pernet's A Shaded View on Fashion Film festival at Centre Pompidou, Paris and Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan
Christian Joy: CONFESS! in collaboration with Christian Joy at Diane Pernet's A Shaded View on Fashion Film festival at Centre Pompidou, Paris and at Mode Biennale, Arnhem
American Wedding in collaboration with Mx Justin Vivian Bond at Participant Inc, Museum of Art and Design, New York and BURN festival, London
Daniel McDonald / Mindy Vale at Oko, New York and Empire State at Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
Christian Joy at Diesel Art Gallery, Tokyo and Picture Farm, Williamsburg
26 Typewriters at Colette, Paris and Envoy, New York
editorial clients
The New Yorker, The New York Times, Libération, National Geographic, TIME, M le magazine du Monde, The New York Times T magazine, Smithsonian magazine, Die Zeit, Causette, Variety, Fast Company, Refinery 29, Cosmopolitan, Flaunt, Puss Puss, The Village Voice, Vogue.it, Bloomberg Businessweek, Nowness, L'Officiel, Wired
press
Communication Arts, American Photo, A PhotoEditor, Leica, Feature Shoot, The New York Times T - Androgyne, Nowness - Long Distance, A Shaded View on Fashion, Theme magazine, Flash Art magazine, Standard magazine, Trendland, The Block magazine
awards
American Photography AP42, AP40, AP39, AP37, AP32, AP31, AP30 Dreamers of Dreams Film Festival, London, best experimental short winner Berlin Kiez Film Festival, artist short film winner The New Yorker Favorite Portraits A Shaded View of Fashion Film festival, MAC make-up beauty award winner The Black Book AR100 Award
books
Martha Graham: Three Dancers in photographs by ioulex, limited edition, artist zine Echoing Wildflowers, in search of California superbloom self-published Designed for Life published by Phaidon RSD (Recipes for Disaster), exhibition catalog Empire State: New York Art Now, exhibition catalog 26 Typewriters by Exit Creative Kouklitas by Andrew Yung for Joyce Hong Kong Flower Power by Matthias Harder published by Dumont 91 Unsold Spaces, exhibition catalog Carpet Death, limited edition, limited edition, artist zine
contact
for all enquiries e-mail info@ioulex.com