Julija Castellucci
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Julija Castellucci avoids stable definitions, working through gestures that interrupt, address and activate. Her practice unfolds across situations, actions and performative signals, using primarily voice and sound, alongside text, without allowing them to settle into a medium.
Rather than producing works, she transmits messages. Whether through public-scale imagery, performative acts, or even the architecture of an interview, these gestures set conditions for response, testing how communication can exist outside the scripts of social convention. Humor and provocation are not effects but tools, yet beneath their clarity runs a quieter register, a sustained attention to what is fragile, overlooked or easily dismissed, through which her work maintains an unexpectedly intimate tone.
Castellucci moves between institutional, collaborative, and everyday contexts without fully belonging to either. Her work resists capture, remaining unstable in form, in meaning, and in identity, which she treats as something to be continuously constructed, performed and undone.
JULIJA CASTELLUCCI
Born 1993, Skopje, North Macedonia
Lives and works in Milan, Italy.
EDUCATION
2017 MA, Faculty of Music, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje
SOLO PROJECTS
2023–2026
SONIC ROOM, performative installation
2026, Casa degli Artisti, Milan, Italy
2023, Living Room, Belgrade, Serbia
2025
HORIZONTAL, long durational performance, Melina Mercouri Hall, Hydra, Greece
2024
WHAT YOU SEE IS YOUR MIND, video work, Balkan Cinema, Belgrade, Serbia
2023
LOST AND FOUND, performative installation, Kultivator Festival, BKW, Belgrade, Serbia
MY NAME IS JULIJA CASTELLUCCI, solo exhibition (triptych: performance / conceptual art exhibition / video installation), X Vitamin Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
THIS IS AN ARTWORK THAT HAS A POSITIVE ENERGETIC EFFECT ON EVERY INDIVIDUAL, spatial intervention, Balkan Cinema, Saša Marčeta Foundation, Belgrade, Serbia
2022
HORIZONTAL, vocal performance (touring)
Silosi; KC Grad, Belgrade, Serbia
Daut Pasha’s Hammam, Skopje, North Macedonia
MOVING SONIC SCULPTURE, performance, Skopje, North Macedonia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES
2025
FOR THE TIME BEING, Sasha Waltz & Guests, Radialsystem, Berlin, Germany
SONIC MILK, sonic installation, SPATIAL Festival, Funkhaus Berlin – Saal 1, Berlin, Germany, collaboration with MONOM4D sound and Benjamin Paulin / Pierre Paulin
TOMORROW BEGAN YESTERDAY, 15th Biennale of Young Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, North Macedonia
2024
FORCES OF GRAVITY, Nuit Blanche, Serbian Cultural Centre, Paris, France
2023
SERBIA NOW, Salon of the Belgrade City Museum, Belgrade, Serbia
FINDING A WAY, Gallery MC, New York, USA
ULUS New Members 2023, Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion, Belgrade, Serbia
SONIC STAIRS, PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON, Zurich, Switzerland
14TH BIENNIAL OF YOUNG ARTISTS “AWAKENING”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, North Macedonia
2022
I’M WAITING 15 MINUTES OF FAME, Stellwerk, Kulturbahnhof, Kassel, Germany
2019
ROMEO AND JULIJA / GAINSBOROUGH IS PRESENT / HOME AND WORLD, UGM Studio, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2019–2020
ROMEO AND JULIJA TANDEM, public space performances, Ljubljana, Slovenia, collaboration with Petra Varl
SELECTED ARTISTIC COLLABORATIONS
2025
Sonic Milk, sonic installation, collaboration with MONOM4D sound and Benjamin Paulin / Pierre Paulin, SPATIAL Festival – Funkhaus Berlin, Saal 1, Berlin, Germany
2023
LAMENT, video work, collaboration with Milorad Glušić
2023
Unrequited Love, performance, collaboration with Sonja Radaković, 15th Biennale of Young Artists, Clock Tower, Belgrade, Serbia
2023
HORIZONTAL, vocal performance, collaboration with Theodore Bejard, Rima Experience, Nice, France
2020
A Sonic Fairy Tale for Children, online sound installation, collaboration with Mila Bezjak and Ela Celarec, Museum of Contemporary Art – MG+MSUM, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2019
Home and World, group exhibition, collaboration with Hana Ostan Ožbolt and Roman Uranjek, UGM Studio, Ljubljana, Slovenia
SELECTED THEATRE COLLABORATIONS
2017–2023
Composer and sound designer
Directed by Jug Đorđević:
Water Drops on Burning Rocks (R. W. Fassbinder) – Belgrade Drama Theatre
The Misanthrope (Molière) – Belgrade Drama Theatre
A Streetcar Named Desire (T. Williams) – National Theatre Sombor
The Epic of Gilgamesh – National Theatre Čačak
Doubt: A Parable (J. P. Shanley) – National Theatre Kraljevo
Impure Blood (B. Stanković) – “Bora Stanković” Theatre, Vranje
One Oedipus (A. N. Rosa) – National Theatre Niš
Additional productions at “Bora Stanković” Theatre, Vranje, National Theatre Užice, and National Theatre Kraljevo
Directed by Jan Krmelj:
Port of Dreamers (I. Martinić) – SNG Drama Maribor
PERSONAL RESEARCH ACTIONS
Site-specific vocal actions as part of an ongoing research practice.
2022–2023
Lamentations for Dead Animals in Butcher Shops
Ljuba Butcher Shop, Kalenić Market, Belgrade, Serbia
Bunjakovec Butcher Shop, Skopje, North Macedonia
2022
Vocal lament for tigers, lions and elephants, Zoo, Skopje, North Macedonia
Vocal concert for goats, Raštak village, North Macedonia
Vocal performance for empty chairs, Daut Pasha’s Hammam, Skopje, North Macedonia
2021
Vocal performance for bonsai trees, private garden, Skopje, North Macedonia
2019
Vocal performance for elephant Lanka, National Park Brijuni, Croatia
Vocal performance for cows, Goriška Brda, Slovenia
Vocal concert for swans, Ljubljanica River at Špica, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Vocal performance for ficus trees, Botanical Garden, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017
Vocal performance for tulips, Public Garden, Lausanne, Switzerland
SELECTED LIVE VOCAL COLLABORATIONS
2020
with Tine Grgurevič Bowrain, guest vocalist, Lent Festival, Minorite Church, Maribor, Slovenia
2019
with Tina Kolenik and Samira Kentrić, guest vocalist, Bunker Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia
with Kukla, guest vocalist, Ment Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia
with Tata Miki, guest vocalist, KC Grad, Belgrade, Serbia
2018
with Anbot and Aldo Kumar, guest vocalist, City Museum MGML, Ljubljana, Slovenia
SELECTED MEDIA COVERAGE
2025
“Worldview: I Don’t Have a Practice, Or Rather I Do”, author BURO., interview, Buro247.rs
https://buro247.rs/kultura/intervjui/julija-castellucci-intervju/
“Art Must Not Have Fat”, author Vasko Lazarevski, interview, TRN.mk
https://trn.mk/julija-kasteluci-umetnosta-ne-smee-da-ima-salo/
“Conversation with Julia Castellucci, Conceptual Artist: I Practice Metaphysical Jogging in Reality”, author Toni Dimkov, interview, Sloboden Pečat
https://www.slobodenpecat.mk/en/razgovor-so-julija-kasteluchi-konceptualna-umetnica-treniram-metafizichki-dzhoging-po-stvarnosta/
2024
“This Work Is So Radical That Any Word of Mine Would Be Excess” – “Don’t Worry” by Julija Castellucci, Extreme Empathy from Belgrade Billboards, author Aleksandra Ćuk, article, Danas.rs
“Art in Public Space – What Is This, Dad?”, author Marija Đorđević, article, Politika Magazin
https://magazin.politika.rs/sr/clanak/571934/kulturni-dodatak/Sta-je-ovo-tata
“‘Don’t Worry’: The Meaning of Billboards Across Belgrade Finally Revealed”, article, NIN
https://www.nin.rs/magazin/vesti/54941/ne-brini-konacno-otkriveno-znacenje-bilborda-sirom-beograda
“Julija Castellucci: In My Free Time I Like to Consume the Present”, author Branko Rosić, interview, Nedeljnik
https://www.nedeljnik.rs/intervju-julija-kasteluci-u-slobodno-vreme-volim-da-konzumiram-sadasnjost/
“Jug, Julija and Emilija Đorđević as the Royal Tenenbaums of the Local Art Scene”, author Isidora Mitri, article, Buro247.rs
https://buro247.rs/buro-originals/the-royal-tenenbaums-jug-julija-emilija/
“Julija Castellucci’s Radical Empathy”, editorial, Pioneri
https://pioneri.net/2024/11/05/julija-castellucci-radical-empathy/
2023
“Digital Reality? Who Is Conceptual and Performance Artist Julija Castellucci and How Did She Come Up with the Idea of Founding an Online Museum?”, author Marija Jovanović, interview, Journal.rs
https://www.journal.rs/kultura/umetnost-i-dizajn/julija-castellucci-intervju-journal-digitalna-imovina/
“ŠBB KBB: Digital Assets of the Solar Julija Who Shares Carefreeness”, author Suzana Zlatanović, podcast, Nova.rs
https://nova.rs/podcast/sbb-kbb-digitalna-imovina-sonarne-julije-koja-deli-nebrige/
“Performance by Julija Castellucci at the Salon of the Museum of the City of Belgrade”, author Milica Dimitrijević, article, Politika
https://www.politika.rs/scc/clanak/567676/performans-julije-kasteluci-u-salonu-mgb%23google_vignette#google_vignette
2022
“Long Live Julija Castellucci!”, author Ivan Tokin, article, Nova.rs
https://nova.rs/kultura/pise-ivan-tokin-zivela-julija-kasteluci/
“Horizontala”, interview, Pioneri
https://pioneri.net/2022/08/09/juluja-castellucci/
“Creative Talks #26: Julija Castellucci | Digitalna Imovina”, podcast, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZVe6Ss7b88
“Conversation with Multimedia Artist Julija Castellucci: The Time Has Come for the Evolution of Human Consciousness”, author Toni Dimkov, interview, Sloboden Pečat
https://www.slobodenpecat.mk/razgovor-so-multimedijalnata-umetnica-julija-kasteluchi-dojde-vreme-za-evolucija-na-chovekovata-svest/
2021
“Skopje, You Will Be Joy: Meet Julija, the Alchemist Who Steals Smiles Across Skopje”, author Irena Trajkova, video interview, Sloboden Pečat
https://www.slobodenpecat.mk/video-skopje-radost-ti-kje-bidesh-zapoznajte-ja-julija-devojkata-od-srbija-shto-krade-nasmevki-na-skopje/