CURRENT OFFERING: JULIAN TAULAND

Release 19/02/2026

Julian Tauland is a French-Albanian painter and draftsman born in 1972. He lives and works in Auvers-sur-Oise, the mythical village that once welcomed Vincent van Gogh.

His practice explores the tension between chaos and form, figuration and abstraction, through the central notion of interlacing, opening multidimensional pictorial spaces where memory, energy, and movement converge.

Introduced to art at an early age by his painter uncle, Tauland began drawing and painting at the age of five. In 1986, he passed the entrance examination for the Korça Art High School in Albania, where he studied until 1989, before completing an additional year at the Tirana School of Fine Arts. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Tauland embarked on the long path of exile. In 1993, he settled in Paris, where he met the Albanian expressionist painter Valdet Hamidi, becoming both his student and assistant. The two shared a studio in Fontenay-sous-Bois. Through this relationship, Tauland was introduced to Albanian artistic and intellectual circles in Paris, including Vladimir Veličković and Dado, whose pictorial universes, together with abstract expressionism, deeply influenced his practice. From 1996 to 2001, he studied visual arts, aesthetics, and art sciences at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he earned a Master’s degree in Image and Living Arts. In 1999, he developed a technique of digital transfer onto painted canvas, merging Photoshop-generated imagery with expressive, gestural pictorial matter.

Since 2008, Tauland has lived and worked at the Van Gogh Artists’ Residence in Auvers-sur-Oise, with the support of the French Ministry of Culture. There, he met and collaborated with Guillaume Corneille, co-founder of the CoBrA movement alongside Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, and Pierre Alechinsky. The CoBrA movement—named after the cities of Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam—advocated complete freedom of colour and form, rejecting naturalism, sterile abstraction, and Surrealism in favour of spontaneous and experimental creation. This ethos has had a lasting influence on Tauland’s artistic approach since his arrival in Paris.

In 2010, the Château d’Auvers-sur-Oise dedicated a retrospective exhibition to his work.

In 2015, he co-founded the collective GRAPS (Groupe d’Artistes Plasticiens) with several international artists and became its president, actively contributing to the region’s cultural life.

In 2016, he was invited by the Musée national Daubigny to participate in two major group exhibitions , shown alongside works by Masson, Valadon, Corneille, Modigliani, De Chirico and Cézanne among others.

In 2020, Le Journal des Arts listed Julian Tauland among the recognized artists of the French contemporary scene.

In 2024, in Paris, a decisive encounter with visionary collector Asher Edelman profoundly influenced his work. Four major series of paintings, gathered under the title Entrelacs - Edelman, emerged from this creative renewal.

In 2025, he published Interlacing: Plastic and Societal Space, an essay on the protean dimension of his work.

Over the years, his work has been exhibited in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

Selected Exhibitions or Projects: 

●     2026

Ongoing discussions with two museums in Paris—the Musée Marmottan Monet and the Maison de Victor Hugo—regarding potential exhibitions (not yet confirmed)

Participation in the Edelman Glion Summer Residency Program (not yet confirmed)

“Genders”, Yellow Cube Gallery, Paris, France – Group Show (January 10-24, 2026)

●     2025

Inauguration of “Maison de L’Isle”, Cultural Center, Auvers-sur-Oise, France – Solo Show   

●     2023

Harnell Gallery, Kerkrade, Netherlands – Group Show  

“Tournesols Thoughts”, Galerie d’Art Contemporain, Auvers-sur-Oise, France – Solo Show

●     2019

Invited Artist, Banksy Museum, Barcelona, Spain – Project

“Les Fans Contre-Attaquent”, Espace Lafayette-Drouot, Paris, France – Project

●     2018   

“Chaosmique”, Galerie d’Art Contemporain, Auvers-sur-Oise, France – Group Show  

●     2017

“Print Paintings”, Galerie d’Art Contemporain, Auvers-sur-Oise, France – Solo Show  

●     2016   

“Le Peintre et l’Intime”, featuring works alongside Luce, Valadon, Steinlen, Müller, Le Scouëzec, Gen Paul and Corneille, Musée Daubigny, Auvers-sur-Oise, France – Group Show

“Entrelac(s)”, Médiathèque Maupassant, Bezons, France – Solo Show

28 Rollebeek Gallery, Brussels, Belgium – Solo Show  

“Portraits à la Dérive”, featuring works alongside Daumier, Léandre, Valadon, Steinlen, Müller, Cézanne, Chirico, Chaissac, Bayard, Lartigue and Modigliani, Musée Daubigny , Auvers-sur-Oise, France – Group Show

●     2013

Rollebeek 28 Gallery, Brussels, Belgium – Group Show

●     2012

Espace Magallon, L’Isle Adam, France – Group Show     

Works on permanent display, Galerie Théo de Seine, Paris, France – Solo Show    

●     2011

“Suprafondeurs”, Galerie Charlemagne, Bois-Colombes, France – Solo Show

●       2010

“Suprafondeurs”, Château d’Auvers, Auvers-sur-Oise, France – Solo Show

“Salon de Mai”, Paris, France – Group Show

“Julian Tauland”, Le Palace, Paris, France – Solo Show