Julia Fromm (*1995, Graz) is an artist and doctoral researcher at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria. Her studio is at WUK-Werkstätten und Kulturhaus, where she has been chair of the board since 2026. She creates objects, performances and...
Read MoreJulia Fromm (*1995, Graz) is an artist and doctoral researcher at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria. Her studio is at WUK-Werkstätten und Kulturhaus, where she has been chair of the board since 2026. She creates objects, performances and video exploring the interaction between bodies, materials, architectural and social contexts.
Her art-based research focuses on tactile design for adolescents with chronic pain. She has published on artistic interventions for chronic pain patients in De Gruyter's Edu:Transversal (2024) and on interdisciplinary co-creation in conference proceedings (ICERI 2025; INTED 2026). She contributed a public article to the INEFF Conference (2025, 2026). Her artistic practice spans multiple disciplines and media, integrating sculpture, performance, choreography, film and photography. Her object-based works include 'Ambivalence to Reality' (natural latex, 2021), a pair of latex legs that archive transformation and bodily disjunction over time. 'Le Bardo' and 'La Marsa' (digital photography, 2020–2023) were captured during a six-month Erasmus+ residency in Tunisia exploring perception, memory and spatial ambiguity. Her performances engage collaborators and audiences across institutional and cultural contexts: 'Metamorphosis' (45min, 2022), developed with Mauricio Ianês for the 59th Venice Biennale at Palazzo Mora, investigated culture, nature and ideological appropriation, while 'In Corpus' (30min, 2023), organized by ECPAT Luxembourg at the Abbaye de Neumünster, featured human trafficking survivors as voluntary co-performers in a choreography around a suspended steel spine. Her video works include 'Where are you dear General?' (10:34min, 2020), presented at the AAA Festival at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and 'Is This Me? – Humanity's Wake Up Call' (3:09min, 2020), performed as a solo piece with a mechanical exo-skeleton and shown across Parallel Vienna and Austrian Cultural Forum Budapest.
Her work has been presented at significant venues including the 59th Venice Biennale 'Personal Structures' (Palazzo Mora, 2022), a solo exhibition at WUK ('RE_EXISTENCE', 2026), Media City UK (2025) and institutions across Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, United Kingdom and Tunisia.
