Born in 1983 in Breisach am Rhein, Julius von Bismarck lives and works in Berlin.

Julius von Bismarck often plays with the appearance of risk to challenge fixed ideas. The Elephant in the Room pairs a taxidermy giraffe with a replica of an equestrian statue of Otto von Bismarck, each collapsing and reassembling in asynchronous loops. Inspired by push puppets, the motorized sculptures question how monuments shape public memory, from the exploitation of nature to political mythmaking. Alongside, the series OOOSB compresses flora, fauna, and vestiges of civilisation into pannels, while the video Grenzen der Intelligenzen captures insects drawn to artificial lights, their frenzied movements reflecting a loss of orientation in the natural world.

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