Olivier Julia

Rythme mural I - minimalist geometric contemporary modern painting relief

2025

Olivier Julia graduated with a BA in graphic art from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Until recently, he held a tutoring position in graphic art at the same academy besides practicing as an independent artist. Since he retired from the academy, he has been working as a full-time visual artist. Originally his work consists of sober graphic art and monumental drawings, but in more recent years, he has explored the dimensional possibilities of graphic art. He creates three-dimensional objects from wood, often painted in subdued colors that are characteristic of his earlier work: differentiated shades of grey and deep blacks. The work of Julia is focussed on the subtle interaction of closed versus open, vertical versus horizontal and light versus dark. His work is exhibited internationally and is part of many renowned corporate and public collections such as ING, KPN, TNT Post, Rijksmuseum Twenthe in The Netherlands, Vaasa Museum in Finland, Royal Library of Belgium, Wilploo Collection and MAL Collection. Furthermore, his work is part of numerous private collections around the world including Europe, the USA and South America. His work was selected for the main Dutch abstract-geometric and constructivist art exhibition, Symposion 2015.