Julia Åberg ^{Emerging artist}

Julia Åberg (b. 2000, Norrköping) is a Swedish artist currently based between Malmö and Berlin. Working across collage, printmaking, and drawing, her practice explores the relationships between image-making, memory, and materiality. Combining painterly and graphic approaches, she creates works that balance personal narratives with experimentation and visual storytelling.

 

Åberg graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts in 2026. During her studies, she spent an exchange year in the Grafik Klasse at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria. Prior to her academic studies, she attended Östra Grevie Folkhögskola, where she studied painting and sculpture. Alongside her artistic practice, she has worked as a gallery host and art educator at Bildmuseet in Umeå.

 

Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Sweden and internationally. Selected solo exhibitions include I NEED TO PUT THINGS IN ORDER at AG18 Gallery, Vienna (2025), Paintings and Collages at The Cowgirl Gallery, Malmö (2022) and Spöken och romantik at Galleri Skyltfönstret, Umeå (2024). She has also participated in exhibitions including Reflective Trace at the Back to Athens 12 Art Festival, Athens (2025), Soft Assembly at Oblong, Copenhagen (2025), The Print Fest at Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest (2025), Bjurholmsbiennalen at Väst På Fjället, Bjurholm (2025) and Allt sjunger s/om fantomer at Konsthallen ABC, Stockholm (2026). 

 

Åberg has received support from the Eva & Hugo Bergmans Memorial Fund of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, the Östra Grevie Folkhögskola Alumni Fund, and the Märta, Wivi and Åke Liljeson Foundation. Her work has also been featured in publications including a zine by Cowgirl Press in Tokyo, CLINCH 01 presented at Mumok library in Vienna, and Luftslott Art Magazine. In 2026, she is undertaking an internship at Galerie Schaufenster in Berlin.