Isaac Julien is a celebrated artist who impresses most with his lyrical films and video installations. However, his socially critical work also makes use of media such as photography, painting, sculpture, music and dance, with which he aims to shed light on the many dark places in cultural history. Tate Britain in London is showing Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is To Me, the artist's first major exhibition in his native Britain, from April 26 to August 20. Visitors can look forward to a 40-year oeuvre.
Born in London in 1960, Julien is a multi-award-winning filmmaker and installation artist. In 2002, he participated in documenta 11 and in 2022, for example, he received the prestigious Kaiserring from the city of Goslar. From 2009 to 2015, Julien was a professor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. About the poetic in his work, he said: »I'm interested in poetry. And in my work it's very much a sort of poetic quest for a language to express experiences which are part of the everyday experience of people like myself.«
