Joanna Schulte

Multimedia artist Joanna Schulte’s practice moves between spaces of memory, knowledge, and longing. In her objects, photographs, and installations, she dramatises aspects of everyday phenomena as well as seemingly silent catastrophes, leaving behind a lasting sense of ambivalence. Thematically, she deals with love and death, legacy and tradition - with a particular focus on diverse cultures of remembrance - as well as the motifs of migration and experiencing nature.

Her often installation-based exhibitions interweave personal objects, film, photography, sound, and light art to create atmospheric situations that transform the space and fully engage the audience. These immersive settings are more than just places to encounter art - they unfold as social playgrounds in which perception, emotion, and interaction intertwine.

Schulte's work is characterised by its openness and constant change. No work remains in its original state. Between exhibitions, works are deliberately revised, recombined, or expanded; materials change, traces of time are incorporated, and media are newly interwoven. This creates a lively dynamic in which works appear differently in each new context.

This transformation follows no fixed cycle but occurs openly and situationally - even years after their creation, works may reappear in altered form. The focus is not on making the process itself visible, but on the emergence of new states of being. Each presentation is a snapshot within a broader, continuous arc of development: the work appears as though it has led a life of its own in the meantime, returning to the public sphere in a transformed state.