Joanna Schulte

Multimedia artist Joanna Schulte moves between spaces of memory, knowledge, and longing. In her objects, photographs, and installations, she dramatizes aspects of everyday phenomena as well as seemingly silent catastrophes, leaving behind a lasting ambivalent mood. Thematically, she deals with love and death, legacy and tradition—with a special focus on different cultures of memory—as well as the motifs of migration and experiencing nature.

Her often installation-based exhibitions weave together 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 mere encounters with art—they open up as social playing fields in which perception, emotion, and interaction intertwine.

Schulte's work is characterized by its openness and constant change. No work remains in its original state. Between exhibitions, works are deliberately reworked, recombined, or supplemented; materials change, traces of time are integrated, and media are remixed. This creates a lively dynamic in which works appear differently in each new context.

This change does not follow a fixed cycle, but occurs openly and situationally—even years after their creation, works can return 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 larger, ongoing arc of development: the work appears as if it had led a life of its own in the meantime, only to return to the public eye in a changed form.