Julia Muggenburg

Julia Muggenburg is a German artist and jeweler based in London. She is the founder of Belmacz, a contemporary art gallery in Mayfair, London, established in 2000.

Biography and work

Muggenburg was born in Mettmann, Germany, and grew up in Wuppertal and Düsseldorf. She moved to the United Kingdom in 1991. She completed a postgraduate course in Ancient and Medieval Arts at Christie's and later an Advanced Diploma in Painting at Central Saint Martins.
In the mid-1990s, she began creating jewelry and in 2000 went on to found Belmacz.
In October 2014, Muggenburg exhibited the collection Fourth Drawer Down on the intersection between art, anthropology and British history. In 2016, she curated InterKontinental, an exhibition that featured the work of 17 artists from ten countries.
In 2018, Belmacz presented If I Was Your Girlfriend: A Jam, an exhibition celebrating the life of Prince with a playlist by Jarvis Cocker and publication by Lina Viste Grønli. In 2021, Belmacz presented A Case of Medtation, a performative work by Sadie Murdoch and Abbas Zahedi as part of London’s inaugural Performance Exchange. In 2022, one of the gallery's artists, Jakob Lena Knebl, represented Austria at the 59th Venice Biennale with her partner Ashley Hans Scheirl.
Muggenburg's work has been reviewed by several media publications. She has been featured in Financial Times, Interview Magazine, Fad Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue US, Vogue UK, Vogue China, Vogue Russia and Vogue Italia, Nowness and AnOther.

2023 - Women of the '20s
2023 - Flower in the Wind
2023 - Gernot Wieland: Halb Nackt
2023 - Toby Christian: no odonata
2022 - “Private” Parts!?: Jakob Lena Knebl & Ashley Hans Scheirl, with Duncan Grant
2022 - Agata Madejska: No Meat Without Bones
2021-22 - Beuys Open Source
2021 – I dialogue, Kinch, Belmacz
2021 – Abbas Zahedi: 11 & 1
2020 – Paul Housley: The Poets Elbow
2020 – Slow Painting, Leeds Art Gallery
2020 – Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger: Hand it Over
2019 – Jakob Lena Knebl: I am he as you are he as you are me. And we are all together
2019 – Estagon
2018 – Trimini Rising with Stanislav Filko, Luisa Gardini and Magdalena Drwiega
2018 – If I Was Your Girlfriend: A Jam
2017 – Alpenglühen: 100 years of Ettore Sottsass Jr
2016 – InterKontinental
2016 – The Conformist
2013 – Love Letter curated in collaboration with Zoe Bedeaux
2013 – Miss G – The Private World of Greta Garbo
2013 – Women in Love