Julia Katolla

Julia Katolla My work searches for life down to its smallest elements, social correlations and wondrous figments. Artist based in Bonn, Germany. I grew up in the tropics.

As a kid I loved to run around barefoot, find figures in the clouds, throw rotten guavas in our mean neighbours garden, replay ‘Takeshi’s Castle’ challenges and sit on the roof. My family and I are a multicultural mixture between Colombia, Costa Rica, Germany and Mexico. So you might guess that I’m sometimes a bit confused regarding my identity. Generally, I enjoy having conversations with myse

lf and others. I like dancing, talking to my plants, travelling through my inner world, a good old fart joke and if I could, I would still love to sit on our roof. Playing music as well as listening to it, plays a significant role in my life and in my artworks. Sometimes, I drift away in conversations, just to listen to that one part of the song playing in the background that makes my day. Then I lip sync and make weird hand gestures. Three and a half years ago my son was born and motherhood has been a big influence in my work ever since. Not necessarily in a glorifying way of depicting motherhood, but more in an honest way of dealing with everything it entails. I like to work with chance, which is why I tend to use less controllable materials. Though at the same time I often proceed to seek simmetry and balance in the arbitrary. Translating my inner world of forms and images into art, implies dealing with the beautiful and the ugly, the reasonable and the absurd.

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“Keeping it together” - II20 x 20 cm Collage, ink, and hand sewing on paper
01/09/2026

“Keeping it together” - II
20 x 20 cm
Collage, ink, and hand sewing on paper

“I make art in the gaps,in the margins, in the breath between needs.Motherhood didn’t steal my voice,it taught me how to...
01/02/2026

“I make art
in the gaps,
in the margins,
in the breath between needs.

Motherhood didn’t steal my voice,
it taught me how to sing
with less air. “

’s words come closest to naming the past year.
Between broken bones, hospital waiting rooms, day jobs, family needs, and some private and professional curveballs, my breath for painting was scarce. Still, when it came, it mattered.. essential and quietly sustaining.

Here’s to keeping New Year’s resolutions until late January, and then going back to the reliable practice of taking life as it comes.

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Thank you so much for the feature among so many great artists. Beautiful issue 47 is available digitally and in print,...
12/21/2025

Thank you so much for the feature among so many great artists.

Beautiful issue 47 is available digitally and in print, link in bio ❤️


“Keeping it together” 20 x 20 cm Collage, ink, and hand sewing on paper First one of a series of four ...
12/05/2025

“Keeping it together”
20 x 20 cm
Collage, ink, and hand sewing on paper
First one of a series of four

Thrilled to be featured in the beautiful 47th issue of The double edition (No. 47 & 48) comprises interviews and featur...
10/21/2025

Thrilled to be featured in the beautiful 47th issue of

The double edition (No. 47 & 48) comprises interviews and features of 55 artists from 16+ countries. Available now in both print and digital form (link in bio, as tradition demands).

My featured works are also available as certified limited edition prints via and online. Because beauty deserves paperwork (Link in bio)

I can’t remember the last time I worked on a painting from start to finish in one day. I‘ve been notoriously avoiding th...
08/29/2025

I can’t remember the last time I worked on a painting from start to finish in one day.
I‘ve been notoriously avoiding the big canvas that is rolled up in the back of my studio waiting to come to life. In the past weeks I’ve filled my time wandering around between an unsettlingly big amount of unfinished paintings, only working on bits and pieces here and there.
So, despite it being a small painting, this one today is a win.

Conception
20 x 20 cm
Gouache and collage on paper

Life Unraveling Series of three small works15 x 10 cmInk and acrylic on paper. ...
08/26/2025

Life Unraveling

Series of three small works
15 x 10 cm
Ink and acrylic on paper.

Thank you for a gloriously spontaneous evening between yoga, sake and the artistic universe of
07/27/2025

Thank you for a gloriously spontaneous evening between yoga, sake and the artistic universe of







“Bending over backwards”20 x 16 cmPen on paper
05/24/2025

“Bending over backwards”
20 x 16 cm
Pen on paper

LIMITED EDITION PRINTS AVAILABLE * Each print is signed and numbered* Each print incudes a holographic Hahnemühle certif...
05/07/2025

LIMITED EDITION PRINTS AVAILABLE

* Each print is signed and numbered
* Each print incudes a holographic Hahnemühle certificate of authenticity
* Prints are available in three different sizes and can be framed to your liking upon request

You can purchase your print online via https://www.werkladen.de/Julia-Katolla or you can visit the Werkladen in the Rennebergstraße 5 in Cologne.

Thank you to for a beautifully curated group show at Fabrik 45!.
04/06/2025

Thank you to for a beautifully curated group show at Fabrik 45!.

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