about

Julia Fidder is a writer and curator based between The Netherlands and Finland. She works both independently and as an institutional curator connected to artist-led organization SEA Foundation. She is director of Text My Sister, which she founded together with Michaela Davidova. Text My Sister is a non-space dedicated to finding new ways of decentralized collaborations that connect overlooked and underutilized regions to each other or to international capital regions. Previously she published texts with Flash Art CZ, Metropolis M, De Kunstmeisjes and Helsinki Biennial 2023 amongst others. Fidder graduated from the Master programme in Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art at Aalto University. Fidder has worked for several art institutions including Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma (Helsinki, Finland), De Kunstmeisjes (The Netherlands), Helsinki Biennial 2023 and MU Hybrid Art House (Eindhoven, The Netherlands).

Within her practice she focuses on themes regarding grief, rituals, (institutional) healing and collective structures of living and working together. Fidder explores collaborative strategies and working methods that stem directly from this thematic research and has over the past years been investigating grieving as a curatorial method. Resulting from this, she underlines the importance for reciprocity and shared agency in her collaborations.

Her thinking and work regarding grief has been largely inspired by thinkers, writers and grief tenders like Camille Sapara Barton, Judith Butler, Darcy Harris, Cindy Milstein as well as stories of individual grievers as well as all artists and practitioners that were connected to her projects so far.