Joanna Schulte's work is characterized by constant transformation. Her works evolve flexibly, transcending the boundaries of space and time and appearing in ever-changing constellations. Each work is part of an ongoing process in the sense of an open artwork, in which, on the one hand, there is no definitive conclusion, but on the other hand, the results of the work stand for themselves and represent the artwork.
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The Process:
Joanna Schultes’s artistic practice is characterized by continuous recycling. With each public presentation, each site-specific exhibition, a transformed state is revealed - as if the work had undergone a hidden reincarnation in the meantime. Certain elements are discarded, others expanded and completed, others not.
The focus is on installations that address and reflect on the relationship between collective memory, family history, and the phenomenon of remembrance. Material aesthetics, theatrical strategies, and narrative elements play a central role. This creates spaces of resonance in which personal narratives intersect with societal questions. This refers both to the physically existing outdoor / natural environment and to the concept of space in its philosophical dimension, as well as to space understood as a human / spiritual sphere of resonance.
The combination of analogue and digital media - including sculpture, object, film/video, photography, sound, music, kinetics, craft, clay, drawing, language, and text - enables modes of presentation that either correspond with the artistic content or deliberately contradict it. This openness to media shows an interdisciplinary mode of expression that is both multilayered and experimental.
Her works deliberately change between exhibitions: they are revised, recombined, or expanded. Materials undergo visible changes, traces of time are incorporated, and media are newly interwoven. This continuous intervention creates a dynamic in which works reveal different facets within each new context.