Born 1998, Norway. Lives and works in Oslo.

Julius Karoubi makes mosaic reliefs from reclaimed bathroom tiles and Italian glass, redirecting the waste stream toward image making. Cut shards, joints, and grout behave like line, rhythm, and brushwork, so the works read as paintings while remaining insistently architectural. Logos, packaging silhouettes, and everyday signage supply a vernacular vocabulary that turns consumption, labor, and repair into material facts.

Process is visible at every stage. Tiles are cut, nipped, and set into fresh adhesive, then locked by grout that records time and pressure like a casting of the hand. Color blocks recall retail palettes and domestic bathrooms as much as art history, so the images flicker between the graphic and the tactile. By leaning into relief thickness and edge, Karoubi opens a hybrid field where mosaic becomes a contemporary painterly language rather than a craft quotation.

Several bodies of work focus on emblematic marks and consumer scripts, while others expand into modular grids that invite serial variation. Recent experiments with cast wall elements extend the support and underscore the works’ architectural kinship. Across formats the aim is constant: to rebuild images from what cities discard, and to propose repair as both method and subject.

Karoubi graduated from Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2023, following earlier studies at Einar Granum Kunstfagskole. He was named Artist of the Year by the Norwegian culture newspaper Subjekt in 2023, and has been noted by national press for the painterly force of his mosaics.

Selected presentations include Assembled Labor at Galleri Golsa, Oslo, 2025, Unge inviterte at Galleri LNM, Oslo, 2024, and solo exhibitions at Hos Arne, Oslo, in 2023 and 2024. These projects chart an accelerated practice that remains grounded in patient, manual construction, where the cut edge and the grout line carry the memory of work.