Biography
Julie Enckell Julliard is a Swiss art historian and curator. Between 2013 and 2017, she ran the Musée Jenisch Vevey, after being the museum’s modern and contemporary art curator (2007-2013). Enckell Julliard has led over fifty exhibition projects and publications, with artists such as Pierrette Bloch, Alain Huck, Ulla von Brandenburg, Thomas Hirschhorn, Francis Alÿs, and Denis Savary, amongst others. A doctor in art history, Enckell Julliard published Vers le visible. Exposer le dessin contemporain 1964-1980 and other books with the éditions Roven, as well as Petit manuel des techniques du dessin (Scheidegger & Spiess 2016) and, in full, Les carnets de Jean-Luc Manz (JRP Ringier 2015). A member of the CFA (Commission fédérale d’art), Enckell Julliard is also a board member of the SGG (Société d’arts graphiques suisse).
Since 2018, Enckell Julliard has been the manager of the HEAD’s Cultural Development.
Contents
09.02.2023
Observation exercises
Interview with Nicolas Nova
A teacher and researcher at HEAD – Genève, Nicolas Nova recently published the book Exercices d’observation, which invites us to train our attention skills. Composed of short texts, it is illustrated by…
20.12.2022
Work day painter
Interview with Yoan Mudry
In The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt famously distinguished labour – linked to bodily activity and the reproduction of it – from work that transcends individual life. Through its physical and material aspects,…
07.10.2022
Les voix de la transmission
Entretien avec l'historienne de l'art et critique Clara Schulmann
Marked out by authoritative voices and a proven research methodology, the academic path may seem fairly straightforward. In her book Zizanies, art historian and critic Clara Schulmann takes a different approach, allowing…
06.10.2022
Night express: when trains commute to comfort
Interview with interior architect Elizaveta Krikun
Europe has set itself the goal of re-launching several night train lines in order to reduce the ecological footprint of passenger transport. There is talk of linking Paris to Barcelona or Madrid…
11.05.2022
The Freistilmuseum twenty years later
In recent years, historians have taken an avid interest in the radical withdrawal from the art world and/or political activism of certain figures, with diverse motivations and backgrounds, such as Carla Lonzi,…
06.04.2022
Head to Head – Nayansaku Mufwankolo
In this video portrait dedicated to them, the delegate of Diversity & Inclusion at HEAD – Genève, Nayansaku Mufwankolo, highlights the different stages that have allowed them to develop their practice. From…
16.12.2021
Autopsy of an editorial experiment
HEAD – Publishing's multi-platform books collection Manifestes
The HEAD – Genève’s policy is to defend access to the knowledge it produces. To this end, the HEAD launched a new multi-media editorial unit called HEAD – Publishing, whose first collection,…
16.09.2021
Agence de tutorat artistique
An interview with collective Medium Sans Serif and a performed reading by Inès Berdugo
The history of artists is marked by two contradictory impulses: first, to free oneself from the judgement of institutionally approved personalities, and second, to overcome one’s own solitude. This double fantasy acts…
14.01.2021
Once upon a time
Interview with Annie A. Marca
For her Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication, Annie a Marca authored a comic book with stylised illustrations, frightening lights and looming cast shadows. This variation on Perrault’s tale Little Red Riding Hood…
26.10.2020
Memories of a Grand Tour – Episode 3
An interview with Loana Gatti
This third part of the Grand Tour memories is dedicated to the work of Loana Gatti, who graduated from the CCC research Master’s Programme. In her Master’s Thesis, titled “Exploring Alternatives: counterattack…
12.03.2020
Head to head IV – Marie Losier
Video interview by Lucien Monot and text by Julie Enckell Julliard
This portrait in two parts of Marie Losier, professor at the HEAD-Genève’s Cinema Department, addresses two of her complementary practises. In a video interview with her former student Lucien Monot, Losier talks…
16.12.2019
Head to Head III – microsillons
The HEAD–Genève’s TRANS– Masters is devoted to students wanting to get involved in socially engaged and collaborative artistic projects or cultural mediation. The Masters was founded by microsillons, a duo composed of…
04.07.2019
Head to head II – Alexandra Midal
In this portrait, which takes the form of an interview, Julie Enckell Julliard seeks to grasp the originality and radicality of Alexandra Midal’s thinking, which enlarges the field of design theory by…