Studio Juuls is founded by Amsterdam-based artist Julia Kiryanova. Studio Juuls offers a curated selection of fine artworks, from textile works to paintings.
Each work is unique and produced by Julia in her atelier in the centre of Amsterdam. Our tapestries are developed through tufting processes using wool, acrylic yarn, or blended fibres, selected for durability, contrast, and surface density.
Julia Kiryanova was born in Kazakhstan and grew up between cultures, between languages, between worlds that didn't always have a word for what she was feeling. She came to Amsterdam to study art. She never left.
Today she works from a studio in the centre of the city, a place that smells of wool and acrylic and turpentine, where half-finished tapestries hang from the walls and canvases lean in stacks against every surface. It is a working studio, not a showroom. And the work made there is as honest as the space it comes from.
Julia is a two-time Royal Award nominee, she uses mythology and vibrant colour to explore themes of gender fluidity and human vulnerability. Whether painting live subjects or weaving intricate tapestries, her work focuses on diversity and the shared experience of empathy.
I am interested in the figures that don't fit neatly, in mythology, in history, in contemporary life. My work is a way of saying: I see you, and I find you worth the time it takes to make something slowly and by hand.
Royal Award for Modern Painting
Julia is a two-time nominee for the Royal Award for Modern Painting, one of the Netherlands' most prestigious prizes for contemporary visual art, awarded annually to painters whose work makes a significant contribution to Dutch cultural life. Being nominated once is notable. Being nominated twice is a statement about the sustained quality and relevance of her practice.
Her work has been exhibited in Amsterdam and internationally, and is held in private collections across Europe.
Julia's work begins with people. Figures in motion, figures at rest, figures caught in the ambiguous middle ground between vulnerability and strength. She draws from mythology, the old stories that cultures have told themselves about bodies, desire, shame, and power, and pulls them into the present, into colour, into texture, into something you can stand in front of and feel.
Her subject is not anatomy. It is empathy. The question she returns to, in tapestry after tapestry and painting after painting, is: what does it feel like to live in a body that the world has an opinion about?
Gender fluidity runs through the work as a recurring thread, not as a political statement, but as a human one. Julia is interested in the figures who exist between categories, who refuse easy classification, who are celebrated in mythology and marginalised in daily life. Her work makes space for them. It says: you belong here. You are worth depicting. You are worth looking at slowly.
Julia believes that original art is not a luxury. It is a choice about what you want to live with, what you want to look at on a Tuesday morning, what you want to explain to a guest, what you want to pass on.
Every work from Studio Juuls comes with a Certificate of Authenticity, a signed document confirming the work's title, medium, dimensions, year of making, and provenance. This is not a formality. It is a record of the object's origin, a thread connecting the thing on your wall to the studio it came from and the hands that made it.
For collectors new to buying original art, Julia is available to discuss works directly via the contact page. Questions about dimensions, hanging, care, and the story behind individual pieces are always welcome.
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