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Julia Surba, artist & designer
About Julia Surba:
"Da bleibt mir glatt der Mund offen... Die sibirische Kuenstlerin
entfuehrt uns in eine tribal-aehnliche Welt voller uralt wirkender
Hieroglyphen und Muster. Mit einem Brennpeter zusammen mit Schnitztechniken
erfindet sie das, was ich mir unter moderner Mystik vorstelle: zeitlos
erdige Kunst".
Thorralf, Germany
"What I thought when I saw Julia Surba's work was that it
was original. I can see an influence of Mayan, African, and Tribal......but,
really it is her own twist. I think she started a new category of
her own and one day students like me will be studying her style".
Archeologist April, USA
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Julia Surba is a siberian artist and designer.
The artistic directions of Julia are pyrography, design
for music instruments, for ethnic style jewelry, fashion
design, henna art, shadow theater (together with
multi-instrumentalist and composer Nadishana) etc.
Her first serious creative project Julia started
at the age of 10. It was a puppet theater, which she had organized
with her schoolmates. The pieces were performed by her theater-troop
in the daily care centers for children around.
Thank to her parents, who present her a pyro-tool, she discovered
at the same time the pyrography* .
In 1988 she started to study different folk paintings arts: khokhloma
(ancient traditional Russian wood painting), zhostovo (an old Russian
folk painting on metal), palekh (Russian folk miniature painting)
and made experiments with wood & flowers collages.
Later during her study the history of culture at the university
she was amazed by ancient cultures of the world: Sumer, Ancient
Egypt, Ancinet Greece etc.. Inspired by their art and mythology
and during her travellings around Siberia and getting in touch with
siberian local cultures: Tuva, Khakassia, Kuzhebar and Tofalar Julia
came back to pyrography on a different level and has developed her
own "background" or "invert" technique, where
burned patterns in combination with carvings build expressive relief
pictures in Tribal Art style.
Julia is sure that pyrography is the best way for her to make visible
the world she wants to create. Most of her artworks represent the
unique world-picture of aboriginal inhabitants of Ancient Kuzhebar
(minority in Siberia, which culture is almost vanished). With her
art Julia tries to rebuild, to keep and to develop this culture
in her own way.
Julia Surba is a member of the
International Association of Pyrographic Artists (IAPA).
Her works were exhibited in Russia, Germany, Spain, Italy and France.
Some of her works are in a spanish museum of traditional instruments
that has been created by a musician Paco Diez, some in the international
online museum for pyrographic art and in privat collections in USA,
Germany, France and Russia.
Since 2004 Julia live and works in Berlin (Germany). Here in 2005
she set up the "Kuzhebar-Design" studio, which
is specialized in pyrography-design, developing of logos and CD-covers,
fashion-design and kuaamu (ethnic style jewelry together with Eliz'Art).
*Pyrography or art of fire (from Greek pyros
= fire) or Wood Burning Art is the art of burning an image onto
a surface: wood, paper or leather. It was popular in many ancient
cultures of Australia, Afrika, Amerika, Ancient Kuzhebar and Europe.
Last Exhibitions:
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Festival " Karma-free Zone", Siberia
2003
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Exhibition "Culture of Ancient Kuzhebar",
Siberia 2003
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Exhibition "Schamanistic Worlds of Ancient
Kuzhebar", Gallery "Kunstreich am Pergamonmuseum",
Berlin (Germany) 2004
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Exhibition in "Orome"- centre, Berlin
(Germany) 2005
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Exhibition "Schamanistic Worlds of Ancient
Kuzhebar ", Gallery "Kunstreich am
Pergamonmuseum", Berlin (Germany) 2005
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Exhibition by "Musicora", Carrousel
du Louvre, Paris (France) 2006
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Exhibition "Schamanism of Siberia in the
modern art", art&culture festival "48 Stunden
Neukoelln", Berlin (Germany) 2006
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Exhibition "Querschnitt Format",
Im Bethanien, Berlin (Germany) 2006
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Art on stage in L`urbangi art room, Berlin (Germany)
2006
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Exhibition by "Markt der Kontinente",
Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem (Germany) 2006
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Exhibition "Unknown Ancestors", art&culture
festival "48 Stunden Neukoelln", Berlin (Germany)
2007
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Exhibition by "Markt der Kontinente",
Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem (Germany) 2007
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Exhibition by "Markt der Kontinente",
Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem (Germany) 2008
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