March 28 – May 9, 2026
Julius Bockelt’s work engages with phenomena from nature and physics. From his intense observations, he develops methods to capture processes that are usually ephemeral and to retrace them within his artistic practice. He draws vibrations, makes soap bubbles durable, and photographs cloud formations. The origin of his artistic practice lies in music—more precisely, in the superimposition of sounds and the interferences that arise from them.
The solo exhibition “Blaues Rauschen” [Blue Noise] brings together this cosmos of artistic production in a concentrated presentation of drawings, cloud studies, soap bubbles, and sound. Between the groups of works, resonant spaces unfold around an overarching idea—a narrative about perception, transience, and the search for knowledge.
In Bockelt’s drawings, each set of freehand-drawn lines corresponds to a simple sine tone. By superimposing many sets of lines, complex drawings emerge that can be read as the notation of an equally complex sound. The multitude of possible graphic variations appears almost limitless; optical flickering, moiré effects, and spatial irritations arise. Characteristic is a moment of dissolution—where the grids thin out, comparable to the fade-out of individual tones.
This principle also appears in other groups of works: clouds slowly dissolve in his photographic observations, and his soap bubbles disintegrate into shimmering skins. Bockelt evokes the theme of transience and places it on display. He extends the lifespan of the soap bubble by altering its chemical composition and adapting its environment for survival. A video installation shows how he keeps these fragile forms suspended and models them electrostatically into funnels, cones, or thread-like shapes that reflect the surrounding light many times over.
Insights into his cloud archive of more than 50,000 photographs point to his many years of meticulous practice as a “cloudspotter” in Frankfurt and the surrounding area. For Bockelt, clouds possess a mood that is closely linked to the mood of his instruments. For this purpose, he has been experimenting for years with the natural faults of his keyboards, short-circuiting them through power interruptions. In the exhibition it becomes perceptible: the contrast between these brutal sounds and the floating tone of his voice or the subtle vibration of an interval could hardly be greater—yet they are closely connected and develop, just like his drawings, photographs, and experiments, from an artistic search for knowledge.
WO Goldstein Gallery, Schweizer Str. 84, Frankfurt am Main
OPENING Friday, March 27, 2026, 7 pm
EXHIBITION DATES March 28 – May 9, 2026
OPENING HOURS Thu – Sat, 2 – 6 pm
