80 - 100% freelance position Project-based until end of January 2025, with a negotiable starting date of mid-August.
Studio Julian Charrière is seeking an experienced, highly motivated individual to join our registrar and art handling team as a project-based member, with the option of a long-term position. This role requires experience in all aspects of art logistics — from handling and conservation to international transport and database management. Working closely with the studio’s registrar, the successful candidate will help ensure the safe movement, documentation, and organization of artworks while supporting a wide range of studio and exhibition projects. We’re looking for a detail-oriented, reliable, and independent problem-solver who remains calm and focused in a dynamic and creative environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintaining an accurate and up-to-date inventory and archive using Artbutler and the studio server.
- Supporting the registrar in overseeing the safe handling, transportation, storage, and installation of artworks.
- Working as part of a larger team, coordinating national and international shipments, including all required documentation (e.g., packing lists, pro-forma invoices, customs papers).
- Coordinating deliveries and returns; producing detailed condition reports with photo and/or video documentation.
- Creating installation and maintenance manuals; supporting clients and partners with installation planning.
- Developing and improving logistics protocols for internal and external workflows.
Profile
- Fluency in German and English (written and spoken) is a must.
- Experience in managing and maintaining artwork databases such as Artbutler or Artlogic.
- Highly organized, proactive, and able to manage both long-term planning and last-minute changes.
- Highly reliable and focused personality.
- Self-reliant and responsible, with the ability to follow procedures and work independently.
- Quick to learn new systems and workflows; tech-savvy and adaptable.
- A valid driver’s license and driving experience is a strong advantage.
About Julian Charrière
Julian Charrière (*1987) is a French-Swiss artist based in Berlin. His work engages with the cultural and ecological layers embedded in natural landscapes. Merging geological and human time scales, he makes visible the slow and often invisible forces that shape both physical terrains and historical narratives.
Charrière’s interdisciplinary practice encompasses film, sculpture, photography, and installation. His immersive projects are often rooted in field research conducted in symbolically and ecologically charged locations—such as glaciers, volcanoes, nuclear test sites, or deep-sea ecosystems. In these direct encounters with fragile environments, he explores how human actions inscribe themselves into the fabric of the Earth, subtly altering its surfaces, atmospheres, and possible futures.
By fusing scientific observation with speculative poetics, Charrière approaches landscapes as physical processes, sites of collective memory, and carriers of cultural imagination. Rather than illustrating ecological crises directly, he creates spaces where wonder and discomfort coexist—inviting audiences to experience the contradictions and tensions of our present moment. His work questions the colonial and extractivist legacies embedded in exploration, landscape representation, and the technologies of seeing.
Charrière studied at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and was a participant at the Institut für Raumexperimente led by Olafur Eliasson. His works have been exhibited by numerous international institutions and biennials. In 2024, he became the first recipient of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Environment and Art, presented by The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles.
About the Studio
Located on the historic site of the former Malzfabrik in Berlin’s Tempelhof-Schöneberg district, the studio is home to an international, interdisciplinary team of professionals who work together to realize Julian Charrière’s artworks and exhibitions.
Operating in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, we bring together a wide range of competencies—from exhibition design and architectural planning to experimental development and art production (both in-house and with external partners), as well as research, archiving, communication, publications, logistics, and installations worldwide.
Our studio culture is defined by open collaboration, mutual support, and a clear commitment to inclusion, diversity, and transparency. Every day, the team gathers for a freshly cooked communal lunch—a moment of connection and dialogue within our vibrant work environment.
With a strong network of freelance collaborators and external specialists, the studio is a place for creative exchange and idea development—shaped by a collaborative spirit and a shared drive to push artistic boundaries.