JBAUMGÄRTNER

Hi there!

I’m Joannie Baumgärtner (they/them) - a 90's-child artist, writer, tutor and cultural worker based in Berlin.

My research-based aesthetic practice involves performance, writing, sculpture and multi-media installations as well as sound & moving image. I work around various histories and topics, that connect in their critique of instrumental reason, capitalist economy and authoritaritan modernity.

Find me working between center and margins, on and off stage, behind the scenes, on track, film or screen, between front cover and verso, in art schools, institutions, gallery spaces, project rooms and nightclubs.

Contact me via E-Mail, find me on Vimeo, Instagram or Soundcloud.

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Published Writing

Imperious Views: Fleeting Glances at the Politics of the Media-Image, 2022,
in: Jonas Höschl (ed.), Politics of Media-Images, Hatje/Cantz, Hamburg

Family Value: Towards a Kinship beyond the Forms of Capital, 2022,
in: Clementine Edwards (ed.), Kris Dittel (ed.), The Material Kinship Reader, Onomatopee, Eindhoven

Pareidolia, 2020,
in: Felix Neumann (ed.), Pareidolia, SBPublishing, Munich

How come, Kami?, 2018,
in: Thomas Bergner (ed.), Internalized Kami, Kerber Verlag, Berlin

Remedies of Imagination, 2017,
in: Matthias Böhler (ed.), Aspiration and Aspirine, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Wien

C / V

Shows & Performances
(G: group show, S: solo show, P: performance, Sc: scenography, C: curation)

01/2024 I guess I need you Baby, Strafjustizzentrum, Nuremberg, Germany (G)

11/2023 Full Stop, Art Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany (G)
04/2023 FERMENT, SB.SpaceBetween, Nuremberg, Germany (C)

08/2022 NEXT, SoHo-House, Berlin, Germany (G, P)
08/2022 Song of the Deborn Mariner, Roonroom, Nürnberg, Germany (S, P)
07/2022 Dear Developer..., Kunstverein/Dürer-Gesellschaft, Nuremberg, Germany (C)
07/2022 Live Works Festival, Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy (F, P)
02/2022 Open Spaces Festival, Tanzfabrik/ Uferstudios, Berlin, Germany (F, P)
01/2022 Even Lift, Hauptmarkt 9, Nuremberg, Germany (C)

09/2021 Permanent Performance, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany (G, P)
07/2021 Bricks and Bytes, Kulturladen Zeltnerschloss, Nuremberg, Germany (C)
06/2021 Fat Men in Skirts, European Theatre Institute, Berlin, Germany (Sc)

10/2022 Body Occupation, Dada Post, Berlin, Germany (G, P)
01/2020 Magna Rota, Kunsthalle, Schweinfurt, Germany (G, P)
01/2020 Art’s Birthday Festival, E-Werk, Freiburg, Germany (G, P)

10/2019 Privacy/ Outside?, 2. WAS-Biennale, Offsite, Berlin, Germany (G, C)
10/2019 ZipLoc, Opopoppa, Malmö, Sweden (G, P)
10/2019 TNI@Sweetheart, Roodkapje, Rotterdam, Netherlands (G, P)
09/2019 Pain, Knulp Artist Space, Sydney, Australia (G)
08/2019 Tears of the Sun, Offsite, Pavilosta, Latvia (G)
06/2019 Orificially Yours, Museo delle Cere Anatomiche, Cagliari, Italy (G, P)
05/2019 Aeroponic Acts, Silent Green, Berlin, Germany (G, P)
03/2019 Law of the Instrument, KV Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany (G, C)

12/2018 Backpack-Show, Tender Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands (G)
09/2018 The Century Bar, Kunstraum Ventilator, Berlin, Germany (G, Sc)
07/2018 Curated Mysteries, KV Edel Extra, Nuremberg, Germany (S, P)
06/2018 A Poem read in Sequence, BRUX Freies Theater, Innsbruck, Austria (P)
05/2018 How it comes to matter, Hot Wheels Projects, Athens, Greece (G,P)
03/2018 Archipelago, Project Probe, Arnhem, Netherlands (G)

11/2017 Mad Tea Party, Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne, Germany (P)
10/2017 top eye open / bottom of the pit, Pavilion 27, Nuremberg, Germany (G)
07/2017 Going Headless, Exhibition Hall, AdBK, Nuremberg, Germany (G)
06/2017 Don’t pause the printer, AEG Halle 13, Nuremberg, Germany (G)
03/2017 Rondez-vous SW, Kunsthalle, Schweinfurt, Germany (G, P)

09/2016 LIFE FUNCTIONS CRITICAL, AEG Halle 13, Nuremberg, Germany (G)
07/2016 Oral Vaccination on a Sugar Cube, AEG Halle 13, Nurnberg, Germany (G)
06/2016 #Rule 34: No Exceptions, Art Society Edel Extra, Nuremberg, Germany (G)

11/2015 The shy King, Dessauer Mansion, Art Society, Bamberg, Germany (G)
07/2015 With a name like photo it has to be good, AEG Halle 13, Nuremberg, Germany (G)

06/2014 The Magic Flute, Atrium, AdBK, Nuremberg, Germany (G, Sc)
05/2014 News from the end of the line, Municipal Gallery, Schwabach, Germany (G)

01/2013 Unit 9, Offsite, Nuremberg, Germany (G)

09/2012 part’AIR, AKT Kunstverein, Amberg, Germany (G)

Residencies, Grants & Fellowships

2022 Open Spaces Residency, Tanzfabrik/ Uferstudios, Berlin, Germany
2021/22 Life Works - Fellowship/ Residency, Centrale Fies, Trentino, Italy
2021 Junge Kunst und Neue Wege production grant
2021 Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis (Shortlist)
2020 Body Occupation Residency, Inkubator Collective, Berlin, Germany
2019 PAiR Residency, VV Foundation, Pavilosta, Latvia
2016/17 Bavarian Fellowship in Media Art Studies, HfG Karlsruhe, Germany
2011/17 Study Grant Fellowship, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Germany

Teaching

2022/23 Project Coordinator for Artistic Development and Transfer,
LEONARDO - Zentrum für Kreativität und Innovation, Nuremberg, Germany
2020/22 Assistant Prof. at the Department of Sculpture with Prof. Michael Stevenson,
AdBK Nuremberg, Germany
2015/17 Tutor at the Department of Art Theory and Mediation with Prof. Kerstin Stakemeier, AdBK Nuremberg, Germany

Education

2019 Master of Arts (with distinction), Dutch Art Institute, ArtEZ, Arnhem
2017/19 MA Art Practice, Dutch Art Institute, ArtEZ, Arnhem
2017/18 Kunst im Kontext, Universität der Künste, Berlin
2017 State Exam Art Education (with distinction), AdBK Nuremberg
2017 Graduation “Meisterschüler*In Sculpting”, AdBK Nuremberg
2016 Graduation “Meisterschüler*In Fine Arts”, AdBK Nuremberg
2015/16 Visiting Studies, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe
2011/17 Studies Fine Arts/ Sculpting / Art Education & Mediation, AdBK Nuremberg