Artistic Associate
Professorship Photography
Marienstraße 1a, room 202
99423 Weimar
phone: +49 (0) 36 43 / 58 32 07
e-mail: julia.albrecht[at]uni-weimar.de
Consultation hours: by appointment by e-mail
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Vita
Julia Albrecht is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, artistic research, artificial intelligence, phototherapy, and mental health. She is an Artistic Associate at the Professorship of Photography at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, where her artistic practice, research, and teaching intersect.
Photography forms the foundation of her work. Combining studio photography with performance, text, installation, and experimental photographic processes, she explores the body as a site of memory, identity, and lived experience. Her practice investigates how images shape emotional experience and construct social realities.
Alongside her photographic practice, Albrecht explores artificial intelligence as both a medium and a metaphor. Rather than treating AI as a tool, she approaches it as a cultural terrain where new forms of storytelling, authorship, and resistance emerge. Her work examines how generative image systems challenge established ideas of photography, perception, and reality.
These questions also inform her teaching. She sees the studio as a space for experimentation, artistic research, and collaboration. Technical skills provide the foundation, but the emphasis lies on developing an independent artistic voice through critical reflection and socially engaged practice. A particular focus is placed on photography as a tool for self-reflection, alongside interdisciplinary and research-led approaches to image-making.
Albrecht studied Media Art and Design at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar before completing an MFA in Photography with distinction at the Royal College of Art, London, in 2022. She also studied at Emmanuel College and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, as well as Tampere University of Applied Sciences in Finland.
Since 2026, she has been an Artistic Associate at the Professorship of Photography at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Previously, she taught there as a lecturer and was a visiting lecturer at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences in Berlin. She has also delivered lectures at the University of Arts Linz, Arts University Bournemouth, and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, and has led workshops for institutions including C/O Berlin.
Her work has been recognised through numerous international scholarships, awards, and residencies, including the UrbanGlass New York Scholarship, the Emmanuel College Artist Residency, Fresh Eyes Talent 2022, the Shadow Labs Mentorship Award, multiple DAAD Scholarships, the Rose Finn-Kelcey Scholarship, and the Studio Vortex Artist Residency in Arles. She has also secured competitive funding for innovative teaching projects through the Teaching Innovation Fund at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
Her current research brings together autobiographical practice, photographic narratives, materiality, and generative AI. It explores how images shape memory, identity, and emotional experience, and how photographic practice continues to evolve in the age of artificial intelligence.
Expertise
Studio Photography, Artistic Research, Photography and Artificial Intelligence, Text-to-Image Models, Generative Imaging, Phototherapy, Mental Health, Performance, Multimedia Art, Digital Image Cultures, Visual Narratives, Identity, Memory Studies, Experimental Photography, Feminist Media Theory, Interdisciplinary Teaching
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