Johanna Keimeyer

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Johanna Keimeyer (* 1982 in Filderstadt ) is a German media artist and designer based in Berlin .

Youth and education

Johanna Keimeyer was born in Filderstadt and grew up in Überlingen on Lake Constance. After graduating from high school, she trained as a carpenter at the industrial school for wood technology in Stuttgart and as an upholsterer at Vitra AG in Weil am Rhein and in Birsfelden ( Switzerland ). She studied product and fashion design at the University of the Arts in Berlin (UdK), product design at the Tama Art School in Tokyo and digital media at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and at the MIT Media Lab in Boston (both in the USA ) .

Work

From 2006 to 2011 Johanna Keimeyer worked with light objects. She designed lights from recycled material that she had collected all over Europe. It thus built a bridge between ecology and economy. The Berlin designer thus first attracted international attention. In the course of her work, she also took part in a workshop with the Brazilian furniture designers Humberto and Fernando Campana. Johanna Keimeyer also took on a commissioned work from Alexander von Vegesack and created the lamp object Trashure 2 . Vegesack then placed the lamp in his private collection and showed it in the Adventure with Objects exhibition that took place in the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli in Turin , Italy . The Italian television broadcaster RAI Uno reported on this exhibition and on Johanna Keimeyer's recycling lamps as part of a feature about creative Berlin.

Productions

In 2012 she staged her thesis for the Berlin University of the Arts entitled Everything is Illusion in the unrenovated Stadtbad Oderberger Straße in Berlin . Between 2008 and 2013 she created photo works for the underwater series Pool around me. She realized them with the support of Martin Nicholas Kunz. The photographer Ed Ruscha photographed private pools in a similar series to show their uniformity and that of the people. Johanna Keimeyer, on the other hand, shows bodies in hotel pools and, in contrast to Ed Ruscha, puts people back in the foreground. In 2016, Johanna Keimeyer performed a dance performance with five dancers and a light show to mark the reopening of the Oderberger Straße public swimming pool as a hotel. The elaborate performance met with wide media coverage. Photos from her series Pool around me were also used to furnish the hotel rooms. In 2017 she realized the installation Breathing Heart as part of the official Art Basel program . For this purpose, she created a huge walk-in heart.

Awards

  • 2009 International Design Award (IDA), first place in the category: Student, Product Design, Lighting
  • 2010 Faces of Design Award, (FoD), Best Online Portfolio

Installations (selection)

  • 2014 "Everything is illusion" video projection, Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, Brooklyn ( USA )
  • 2015 “Space, Motion and Community” performance with Jonah Bokaer ( USA ) and Stavros Gasparatos (Greece), Boisbuchet, France
  • 2016 “A New Dawn” installation in the historic swimming pool, Hotel Oderberger , Berlin
  • 2017 "BREATHingHEART" installation, official program for Art Basel , Basel , Switzerland
  • 2019 “The Face within”, installation, Galerie Eck, Munich

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2008: Participation in "Adventure with Objects" in Pinacoteca Agnelli (Museum), Turin , Italy
  • 2010: Participation in "Kunstforum Brandenburg", Potsdam
  • 2011: Participation in "Songs of the Sea", National Glass Center, Sunderland, Great Britain
  • 2011: Participation in "Luminous Times - Sustainable Architecture", France, in collaboration with the Vitra Design Museum and the Center Pompidou , Paris , France
  • 2011: Audiovisual installation, Bikini Showroom, Berlin
  • 2011: Participation in the “DMY international design festival” in Berlin , Berlin-Tempelhof Airport
  • 2011: Participation in "Young Design in Berlin", Gallery Alte Schule, Berlin-Adlershof
  • 2014: Participation in the "Festival of Lights NYC", in the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, Dumbo, Brooklyn , USA
  • 2015: Participation in Gallery Weekend Berlin, photo exhibition at Kino International, Berlin

Literature (selection)

  • Everything is enlightened, she turns waste into art, Johanna Keimeyer creates “Sustainable Design” , Welt-Kompakt, No. 252, December 27, 2010, p. 24 f.
  • Building a house of ideas , in: Art Magazin , No. 2, February 2007, pp. 126–129.
  • Johanna Keimeyer, "treat garbage like gold" , in: Ares Kalandides (Ed.), Berlin Desing, Braun Publishing, Berlin 2009, p. 196 f. and p. 229. ISBN 978-3-03768-014-8
  • Johanna Keimeyer, Recycle Lights , in: Henrietta Thompson (Ed.), Reinventa, la tua casa, Milan 2013, p. 119. ISBN 978-88-370-9037-1
  • New Glass Review 30 , The Corning Museum of Glass (Ed.), New York 2009, p. 26. ISBN 978-0-87290-173-5
  • On existential collecting , in: Adventures with objects, La collezione Alexander von Vegesack , Milan 2008, p. II / 13. ISBN 978-88-370-6086-2
  • Joerg Suermann (Ed.), Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin (Design), copy culture , International Design Festival Berlin, Berlin 2011, p. 182 f. ISBN 978-3-9812813-5-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ design. Retrieved July 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Intelligent Life in: 40 under 40, Design's Next Generation, Perspective, Hong Kong, August 2008, p. 20 ISSN 1606-2558 and Building a House of Ideas , in: Art Magazin, No. 2, February 2007, p 128.
  3. ↑ Everything is Enlightened , Welt-Kompakt, December 27, 2010
  4. ^ Domaine des Boisbuchet: Adventures with Objects
  5. ↑ Johanna Keimeyer: Johanna Keimeyer RAI Uno. October 22, 2008. Retrieved February 22, 2017 .
  6. ↑ February The Stadtbad. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 13, 2016 ; accessed on February 22, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kalenderprenzlauerberg.de
  7. ↑ Underwater photography portraits in hotel pools. Retrieved February 22, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Auftauchen in Prenzlauer Berg , Berliner Morgenpost, No. 268, September 29, 2016, p. 12.
  9. ↑ Stadtbad Oderberger Straße: After 30 years of dry season, the Kiezbad is reopening , Berliner Zeitung, October 17, 2016 , You can swim again in the Stadtbad Oberberger Straße , Berlin Week, October 21, 2016 and Whats on: Johanna Keimeyer is opening the Stadtbad Oderberger , Chased art and people magazine Berlin, October 3, 2016.
  10. ↑ Johanna Keimeyer - Oderberger Hotel . In: Oderberger Hotel . ( hotel-oderberger.berlin [accessed on February 22, 2017]).
  11. ↑ Telebasel News article from June 16, 2017. Accessed July 7, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Project page breathing heart. Retrieved September 30, 2018 .
  13. ↑ 30 minutes of egocentricity , Münchner Merkur, September 14, 2019, p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Keimeyer, Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media artist and designer in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Filderstadt