Botanical Boundaries
September 4 — 26, 2025
Vernissage // September 4 at 7 p.m.
Galerie DRUCK & BUCH // Vienna
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Knüppel über’n Bach
September 20 — October 12, 2025
Vernissage // September 19 at 6 p.m.
Künstlerhaus 188 e.V. // Halle
I imagine our biography as the grown structure of a village:
Paths lead outwards from the center in all directions, new things are built beside the old, and newcomers settle next to those who have always lived there. Our memories are experiences that have stuck—ones that occasionally fall into our hands by chance and allow us to feel the passing of time.
I’m interested in the life stories of people and places. I ask questions, listen, find, collect, and in this way explore origins and change, ruptures and continuity.
My books serve to preserve and reorganize. We can read on different levels. And as we turn the pages, time passes.
| 1981 | Born in Rostock (East Germany); lives and works in Leipzig |
| 2003 | Founded the book series »Verwandte Objekte« |
| 2008 | Diploma in Fine Arts, Burg Giebichenstein University of Arts and Design Halle |
| 2004—05 | Studied Graphic Arts at the Art Academy of Latvia in Riga |
| 2001—07 | Studied Painting/Graphics with a focus on Conceptual Book Art under Mechthild Lobisch, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle |
| 2000—01 | Studied Art and History at the University of Leipzig |
| 2024 | Teaching Book Art at Burg Giebichenstein University of Arts and Design Halle |
| 2010—18 | Studio »Buchmacher Illner//Stabe//Mahn« |
| 2010—11 | Teaching at Burg Giebichenstein University of Arts and Design Halle |
| 2007—17 | Member of the Artist group »club mantell« |
| 2020 | Project grant »Denkzeit« from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony |
| 2019 | Exchange grant from Künstlerhaus Lukas for a residency at Fyns Grafiske Værksted in Odense, Denmark, funded by the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
| 2014 | Relief printing symposium at the workshop carpe plumbum | Thomas Siemon, Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig, funded by BBK Leipzig e.V. |
| 2012 | Funding for the exhibition project »Bestandsaufnahme« from the Saxony-Anhalt Arts Foundation and the Kloster Bergesche Foundation |
| 2011 | Three-month residency grant, Kunstverein Röderhof e.V., Saxony-Anhalt |
| 2008 | Work grant from the Graduate Scholarship Program of Saxony-Anhalt |
| 2004 | Erasmus scholarship in Riga, Art Academy of Latvia |
| 2014 | Bavarian State Prize (with »club mantell«), Munich |
| 2013 | Award »Ereignis Druckgraphik 5 > Zeitgenössische Intentionen in der Druckgraphik«, BBK Leipzig |
| 2010 | Justus Brinckmann Award 2011 (with »club mantell«), Justus Brinckmann Society Hamburg |
| 2008 | Acknowledgement for the book »Sichtvermerke«, Art Award of the Saalesparkasse Foundation |
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| 2025 | »Fear & Hope are—Vision!« Galerie Druck & Buch, Vienna, Austria »KUNST I BUCH« 4D Projektort des BBK Leipzig e.V., Leipzig, Germany »BEST OF 2024« Galerie Druck & Buch, Vienna, Austria |
| 2024 | »zeitgebunden« Galerie Druck & Buch, Vienna, Austria (solo) »BuchDruckKunst« Book Fair, Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg, Germany »CODEX IX« Book Fair & Symposium, HJK Convention Center, Oakland, California, USA »BEST OF 2023« Galerie Druck & Buch, Vienna, Austria |
| 2023 | »Vienna Art Book Fair #2« dieAngewandte, Vienna, Austria »TAP30« Halle CO1, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany »Leipzig Book Fair« Hall 2, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2022 | »CODEX VIII« Book Fair & Symposium, Craneway Pavilion, Richmond, California, USA »artbook.berlin 2022« Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany |
| 2020 | »Verwandte Objekte. An artist book series by Jule Claudia Mahn« New acquisitions showcase, Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Weimar, Germany »Synesthesia : The Space Between« Datz Museum of Art, Gwangju-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea |
| 2019 | »Leipzig Book Fair« Hall 3, Leipzig, Germany »CODEX VII« Book Fair & Symposium, Craneway Pavilion, Richmond, California, USA |
| 2018 | »Freud on the Couch: Psyche in the Book« The Center for Book Arts, New York, New York, USA // Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA // San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, California, USA »Contemporary Book Art at the Lyrik Kabinett« Stiftung Lyrik Kabinett, Munich, Germany »Leipzig Book Fair« Hall 3, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2017 | »Buchkunst Weimar« Congress Centrum Neue Weimarhalle, Weimar, Germany »artbook.berlin 2017« Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany »Leipziger Buchmesse« Hall 3, Leipzig, Germany »CODEX VI« Book Fair & Symposium, Craneway Pavilion, Richmond, California, USA |
| 2016 | »artbook.berlin 2016« Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany »Making Sense of The Senses« The Center for Book Arts, New York, New York, USA »Leipziger Buchmesse« Hall 3, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2015 | »Spots.« hall C01 at the Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany »artbook.berlin 2015« Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, Berlin, Germany »Handpressen oder die Kunst handwerklicher Buchgestaltung« Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany »Über das Bleiben« Galerie Abakus, Berlin, Germany »Entdeckungen. Die Bücher der BURG« Burg Galerie im Volkspark, Halle, Germany »CODEX V« Book Fair & Symposium, Craneway Pavilion, Richmond, California, USA »Results Presentation of the Printmaking Symposia of BBK Leipzig e.V.« 4D, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2014 | »artbook.berlin 2014« Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany »Zeitgenössische Buchkunst im Lyrik Kabinett« Stiftung Lyrik Kabinett, Munich, Germany »Ereignis Druckgraphik 6« hall C01 at the Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany »Exempla« with club mantell at the Special Exhibition of IHM, Munich, Germany »Seitensprung« Burg Galerie im Volkspark, Halle, Germany »9. Norddeutsche Handpressenmesse« Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2013 | »Fifth International Artists’ Book Exhibition« King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary »Sein noch ohne Tun« Galerie Abakus, Berlin, Germany »Ereignis Druckgraphik 5 > Contemporary Intentions in Printmaking« VORORTOST, Leipzig, Germany »Transition« LIA (Leipzig International Art Programme), Leipzig, Germany »Art conceptuel du livre« Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2012 | »artbook.berlin 2012« Galerie Nord, Berlin, D »Holzschnitt heute« Art Award 2012, Foundation Kunst, Kultur & Bildung, Kreissparkasse Ludwigsburg, Germany »Bestandsaufnahme« Kunstverein Röderhof e.V., Röderhof, Germany »Transformationen.« Galery for Arts and Crafts, Munich, Germany |
| 2011 | »Materials Revisited — 10. Triennale für Form und Inhalte« Klingspor-Museum Offenbach, Germany »Ereignis Druckgraphik 3 < Hochdruck 2011« Galerie VORORTOST, Leipzig, Germany »Vorsicht Buch — Mechthild Lobisch und Schüler« Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany |
| 2010 | »Book Art. Made in Germany« Gallery of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China »4+« Projektraum: Alles was du siehst gehört dir, Halle, Germany |
| 2009 | »Solitude — Landschaft im Aufbruch« Nes artist residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland »Una mirada al libro — Objeto, imagen, texto« Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain »Kunstpreis 2008« Kunstforum, Halle, Germany »graduiert« Galerie im Volkspark, Halle, Germany »Kurzzeitig unangestrengtes Warten auf den Erfolg« ufo Gallery, Halle, Germany |
| 2008 | »Solitude — Landschaft im Aufbruch« Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop, Germany »Bog-Kunst-Buch« Deutsch-Dänische Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
| Address | Jule Claudia Mahn // Arndtstraße 63 // 04275 Leipzig // Germany |
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| Studio | Tapetenwerk // House A (Ground Floor) Lützner Straße 91 // 04177 Leipzig // Germany |
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