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 Schulte's artistic practice is characterized by continuous recycling. With each public presentation, each site-specific exhibition, a changed state is revealed—as if the artistic work had undergone a hidden reincarnation in the meantime—some parts were discarded, others were expanded and completed, others not.
The focus is on installation-based productions 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 connect with social issues. This refers both to the real existing outdoor/natural space and to the concept of space in its philosophical dimension and as a human/spiritual resonance space.
The combination of analog and digital media—including sculpture, objects, film/video, photography, sound, music, kinetics, handicrafts, clay, drawing, language, and text—enables forms of presentation that correspond with or deliberately contradict the artistic content. This openness to media demonstrates an interdisciplinary mode of expression that is both multi-layered and experimental.
Her works deliberately change between exhibitions: they are reworked, recombined, or supplemented. Materials undergo visible changes, traces of time are integrated, media are remixed. This continuous intervention creates a dynamic in which works reveal different facets in each new context.