Julia Gruner. Universal Azo Fizz - A Deconstruction: Kienbaum Artists’ Books Edition 2025

Painters need paint - it could be as simple as that. Julia Gruner (b. 1984), who graduated from Kunstakademie Dü sseldorf in 2015 as a master student of Katharina Grosse, opts for quite a different palette in her Domestic Paintings by using products such as Bilou Sweet Galaxy shower gel, Dontodent mouthwash junior Learning Effect, Dresdner Essenz bath concentrate Pure Calm, got2b Glue waterproof hair gel, Rewe Beste Wahl cream with Aceto Balsamico di Modena IPG, Rewe Bio Styrian pumpkin seed oil, and treacle- moon shower cream One Ginger Morning. This creates structure, is then blurred, squeezed on top of one another, resulting in a chemical reaction between the components. The artist spreads this onto a sheet of cling film on a scanner, in a way that occasionally includes a few folds and creases. The effects range from bombastic views and interstellar spaces to childlike doodles. In other words, these ephemeral paintings captured in the scan pique our curiosity about the industrially manufactured products that surround us every day, which, moreover, are perfectly tailored to every situation in life, and whose ingredients and manufacturing processes we basically know little about. The Kienbaum Artists’ Books are the ideal platform for such experiments. The publication consists of four elements: a folded poster, which shows a complete scan of a work, as the cover, and three booklets. In the first, Julia Gruner presents details from several works, the second lists the product information in detail, and in the third booklet, there is a detailed list of the colors used in the food products along with their properties.

Jochen and Laura Kienbaum are the editors of the Kienbaum Artist’s Books series, in which a free artist’s publication is published annually. The Kienbaum Collection, which has been collated by Jochen Kienbaum since the 1970s, comprises around 1,500 works of contemporary art, including paintings, sculptures, objects and works on paper. Under the terms Color and Abstraction, the collection brings together works of European and American artists. The collection focuses on the artists Gü nther Fö rg, Bernard Frize, Imi Knoebel, Fabiá n Marcaccio, Richard Allan Morris, Carl Ostendarp, and David Reed. Julia Gruner (b. 1984), she studied Design from 2005- 2010 in Hamburg and continued the study at Bezalel Academy of Artsand Design in Jerusalem, 2015 she graduated from Kunstakademie Dü sseldorf as a master student of Katharina Grosse. Jochen and Laura Kienbaum are the editors of the Kienbaum Artist’s Books series, in which a free artist’s publication is published annually. The Kienbaum Collection, which has been collated by Jochen Kienbaum since the 1970s, comprises around 1,500 works of contemporary art, including paintings, sculptures, objects and works on paper. Under the terms Color and Abstraction, the collection brings together works of European and American artists. The collection focuses on the artists Gü nther Fö rg, Bernard Frize, Imi Knoebel, Fabiá n Marcaccio, Richard Allan Morris, Carl Ostendarp, and David Reed.