About me
From an early age I have been engaged in painting. Nevertheless, I first studied book science, German language and literature and art history at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (Magister 2012, doctorate 2017).
I was always active as an autodidact and parallel to working on my dissertation I started painting for the Gutenberg-Shop in Mainz. Since October 2017 I have been working both as secretary general of the International Gutenberg Society in Mainz and as a freelance artist.
Exhibitions/Events
2 November 2019: Workshop at the Landesmuseum Mainz (http://www.landesmuseum-mainz.de/museum-aktiv/workshopnacht-mein-bauhaus/).
16 to 20 October 2019: Live painting at the Frankfurt Book Fair at the Gutenberg Museum stand (Hall 4.1/A32/33).
21 to 24 March 2019: Live painting at the Leipzig Book Fair at the Gutenberg Museum stand (Hall 3/H500).
10 to 14 October 2018: Live painting at the Frankfurt Book Fair at the Gutenberg Museum stand (Hall 4/N25).
2 September 2018: Live painting in the Paulinerkirche in Göttingen as part of the cabinet exhibition "Gutenberg in Göttingen" (http://gutenbergdigital.de/ausstellung2018/).
28 March to 14 April 2013: 8th international art exhibition"The Golden Plaque of Gubbio City Award - 2013".
28 September to 1 October 2012: Presentation at the Spoletofestivalart by the Italian gallery "Il Collezionista".
27 September 2012: Lecture at the 50th Jour Fixe of the Friends of Gutenberg ("Review of an Art Exhibition in London by a Painter from Mainz").
16-18 May 2012: Participation in the Parallax Art Fair (PAF) in London.
May to August 2011: Exhibition in the optician's shop "Dorothea Fauser" in Griesheim.
29 April to 3 May 2011: Participation in the exhibition "BAGL SPRINGtime 2011" in Berlin.
Press
20.12.2019: Article in the Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz https://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/lokales/mainz/nachrichten-mainz/schopfungsgeschichte-handgeschopft-in-schillernden-farben_20919348
09.10.2018: Article on Print.de https://www.print.de/news-de/drucken-wie-gutenberg/
31.08.2018: Article on Frankfurt live http://www.frankfurt-live.com/live-malen-in-g-oumlttingen-105922.html
03.2018: Article in the Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz https://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/lokales/mainz/nachrichten-mainz/gutenberg-in-leipzig_18593950
25.11.2017: Article in the Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz https://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/lokales/mainz/nachrichten-mainz/von-jour-fixe-bis-kulturei_18344774
2014: Article in the HIDDEN TREASURE ART MAGAZINE YEARBOOK 2014. Further information under: http://www.ht-artmagazine.com/#!book/c1x1t
23.02.2013: Interview with DailyArtDesign http://dailyartdesign.posterlounge.de/interviews/dailyartdesign-interview-mit-julia-striegel-kuenstlerin.html
03.06.2012: Interview with Unipress Mainz http://www.unipress-mainz.de/?p=153
19.05.2012: Article in the Mainzer Rhein-Zeitung http://www.rhein-zeitung.de/startseite_artikel,-Mainzerin-zeigt-ihre-Bilder- in-London-_arid,426632_print,1_regid,1.html
Contribution to the art book "International Contemporary Artists" Vol. I and Vol. IV by ICA Publishing: http://www.incoartists.com/the_book.html
Advertising video for BAGL SPRINGtime 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTywvGuemW0
Publications
Published in March 2019: my dissertation on the book trade system and knowledge space in the early modern period.
Also published in March 2019: The historical children's thriller "Johannes Gutenberg und die verschwundenen Lettern" by Gitta Edelmann and Regine Kölpin. Illustrations and typesetting (under the artist name Juno Sommer) as well as scientific editing are by me.
https://www.gutenberg-shop.de/neu-im-shop/edelmann-koelpin-kinderbuch.html
Interesse an meinen Werken? / Are you interested in my works?
Meine Bilder und Zeichnungen können in den verschiedensten Varianten vom kleinen Sticker über Karten, Poster und Kunstdrucke bis hin zu bedruckten Schreib-, Textil- und Dekowaren sowie Handy- und Tablethüllen über folgenden Plattformen erworben werden / My pictures and drawings can be purchased in the most different variants of the small sticker over cards, posters and art prints up to printed stationeries, textile and decorative items as well as mobile phone and tablet cases over the following platforms:
www.redbubble.com/de/people/alva.
www.sebelle.de/kunstpostkarten.
Die mit gemalten Initialen, Rankenverzierungen und echter Blattvergoldung ausgestalteten Reproduktionen einzelner Seiten der Gutenberg-Bibel sowie kleine Prachtinitialen sind im Gutenberg-Shop Mainz erhältlich / The reproductions of individual pages of the Gutenberg Bible, decorated with painted initials, tendril ornamentation and genuine leaf gilding, as well as small initials, are available from the Gutenberg Shop in Mainz: www.gutenberg-shop.de.
