Berlin / Uckermark
Johanna (*1989, Berlin) lives and works in Berlin and in the Uckermark region. Her work draws from trans-disciplinary artistic research, performative practice, and anthropological methods. Alongside body- and movement-based approaches, conversations - with experts, strangers and friends alike - are central to Johanna's work. In her performative, textual, sculptural, and editorial projects, Johanna examines phenomena of individual experience as embedded within collectively shaped social, material, and affective lifeworlds - as moments of encounter in which self and world are continuously re-shaped. By foregrounding the processual and the porous, she connects phases of research, experimentation and production with those of public sharing.
Since 2015, Johanna’s often collaboratively realised projects have engaged with themes such as labor and its value (The Agreement, AG Arbeit, They Ate Our Day), mysticism and experiences of nature (Salt Lake, Zweitlandschaften), voice(s) and breath (singalongs, High Fidelity, ~4E8A∞~), longing, intimacy and shame (Women And Watery Men, wherever you are), as well as death, grief, and our relationship to the dead (Clouds On Clear Sky, Grandmothers, aus dem was sprachfähig war, forever goodbye).
Alongside her artistic work, Johanna regularly teaches as a guest lecturer in the Studium Generale program at the Berlin University of the Arts. Together with Anna Zett and Marie DuPasquier, among others, she has curated and hosted various event series and projects such as the performative exhibition Postindependent. Since 2019, she has been involved in shaping and curating Libken Denk- und Produktionsort (Uckermark), since 2021 as part of its artistic leadership team. Most recently, she conceived and accompanied the interdisciplinary residency program into the fields, which invited artists from rural regions in Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic to work together.