Julia Mensch is a visual artist based in Berlin and Buenos Aires. She studied at the National Art University in Buenos Aires and at the Hito Steyerl’s class at the UdK, Berlin. Currently she is a PhD Candidate at Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar and part of the research project “Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and hosted by the Institute Art Gender Nature, Academy of Art and Design Basel FHNW. Her work is an intersection of text, drawing, installation, public events, photography, video and lecture performance. Her practice deals with the history of Socialism and Communism, and with environmental sociopolitical conflicts in Latin America confronting the exploitative conditions of the land and beings since colonization, and throughout neocolonialism. She has taken part in several international residency programs and exhibitions, including Savvy Contemporary and NGBK (Berlin), Museo Nacional de Grabado (Buenos Aires), Shedhalle (Zürich), Kunsthalle Appenzell, Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil (São Paulo), BienalSur (Buenos Aires), among others.