Julia Wimmerlin

Ukrainian-born and Swiss-based, Julia Wimmerlin is a visual artist whose practice has evolved from documentary travel photography to conceptually driven fine art. Having lived across Europe and Asia, she carries a cross-cultural visual sensitivity shaped by displacement, memory, and shifting identity. Trained in Economics and Marketing, and initially working in international advertising, Wimmerlin transitioned to photography in 2014, bringing with her a refined understanding of visual storytelling.

The crises of the early 2020s—pandemic isolation and the war in Ukraine—profoundly redirected her artistic path. Unable to look at the world through a documentary lens, she turned inward, developing a symbolic visual language that blends figuration, abstraction, and dream logic. Her works explore how memory fractures and reforms, how perception shifts under pressure, and how imagination becomes a necessary refuge. In this introspective space, photographs act as portals where the intimate meets the fantastical, and where emotional truth takes precedence over literal depiction.

Wimmerlin’s practice aligns with a lineage of artists who responded to turmoil through inward transformation—from de Chirico to Carrington, from Woodman to Michals—using the subconscious as a site for rebuilding meaning. Her work has been widely exhibited internationally and featured in publications such as The New York Times, National Geographic, GEO, The Telegraph, and Forbes. She has received numerous awards, including “Photographer of the Year” at the Moscow International Foto Awards, and has been recognized by the International Photo Awards, TIFA, PX3, and the Sony World Photography Awards.