A performative research by
Julia Hainz + Carmen Westermeier
Contact us
Julia Hainz
*1993 Mainburg
PhD candidate at Hfg Offenbach
since 2022 artistic assistant at Kunsthochschule Kassel
education
2023 Sommerakademie Salzburg - Exploring the Earth as Lover: New Approaches to Environmental Art (Beth Stevens and Annie Sprinkle)
2019 Meisterschülerin (Prof. Heike Baranowsky)
2015 – 2019 AdBK Nuremberg (Prof. Heike Baranowsky)
2017 – 2018 AdBK Vienna (Prof. Ashley Hans Scheirl)
2013 – 2015 AdBK Nuremberg (Prof. Eva von Platen)
exhibitions and performances
2024
Hangar Obert, Hangar Barcelona (open studio, performance with Carmen Westermeier)
ephemeral, Kunstpreis Diana Rumpenheim (video Installation with Carmen Westermeier)
I A HYPHEN, E-Werk Freiburg (performance with Mirjam Walter)
(Maybe) you cringed me..., Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (performance with Carmen Westermeier)
2023
ruins of refueling, Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt/Main (performance)
tasty tongue, Stadtgalerie Zwergelgartenpavillon Salzburg (performance)
bouncing boundaries, TOR Art Space Frankfurt/Main (performance, installation with Carmen Westermeier)
2022
Die Stärke von deiner Brust lecken, basis Projektraum Frankfurt/Main (performance, installation with Peter Oberloher)
literal bodies, Künstlerhaus Nuremberg (installation)
2021
crank the disc down, Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt/ Main (performance with Veronika Haller)
2020
NO HOLD ON, Kunstverein Schweinfurt (solo exhibition: performance, installation)
Unmuted, Mañana Bold, The Frankfurt Art Experience (performance)
Will you be my brick, Kunstpalais Erlangen (performance with Simone Körner)
2019
Affektive Allianzen, Schloss Callenberg Coburg (performance, installation with Simone Körner)
Young Urban Performance Festival Osnabrück (performance, installation with Carmen Westermeier)
mapping my murmur, Absolvent*innen AdBK Nuremberg (performance, installation)
2018
Sheela Na Gig, AdBK Nuremberg (solo exhibition: performance, installation with Carmen Westermeier)
Heavy Metal Erntedank, Kunstpalais Erlangen (installation with Carmen Westermeier)
publications
2024
Über ein weites Netz an Kompliz*innen, in: Alex Hojenski: Durchsichtige Träger:innen. Transparent Carriers
2022
spaced bodies - Im Zwischenraum der Aufführung, in: springerin 2/2022 hysterien
2020
NO HOLD ON manifesto, Kunstverein Schweinfurt
curatorial projects
2023
als wäre ich du, basis Projektraum Frankfurt/Main (curation: group exhibition)
2022
literal bodies (concept and curation with Simone Körner: group exhibition)
body on festival, Künstlerhaus Nuremberg (concept and curation with Melina Geitz: queer feminist festival with music, performances, workshops and movies)
2021
body on - Trouble in paradise festival, Künstlerhaus Nuremberg (concept and curation with Melina Geitz and Carolin Wabra: queer feminist festival with performances, workshops and movies)
2019
Schlafende Hunde - Künstlerhaus Nuremberg (concept and curation with Alex Hojenski and Michael Akstaller: experimental sound and performance festival)
awards
2025
Project funding The Symbiotic Approach, City of Stuttgart (with Carmen Westermeier)
2024
YouTransfer scholarship (with Carmen Westermeier)
Kunstpreis Diana (with Carmen Westermeier)
Project funding The Symbiotic Approach, City of Stuttgart (with Carmen Westermeier)
Culture Moves Europe funding
Exchanges Grant, Hangar Barcelona (with Carmen Westermeier)
2020
Debütant*innenförderung Schweinfurt
Kulturpreis Bayern
teaching
since 2022 artistic assistant at the department of art education Kunsthochschule Kassel
2024
Identität als Handlungsfeld wiederständiger Praktiken (seminar at the Department of art theory AdBK Nuremberg)
A Praise for TechnoGaia, (The Symbiotic Approach workshop, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart with Carmen Westermeier)
2023
Um_Üben: How to try out transformations? (workshop at AbK Stuttgart)
2022
material scripts (workshop series at Hfg Offenbach)
2021
Choreografien der Formgebung (workshop at Hfg Offenbach)
exhibitions and performances
2024
Hangar Obert, Hangar Barcelona (open studio, performance)
ephemeral, Kunstpreis DIANA, Offenbach am Main (installation)
(Maybe) you cringed me,…, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (performance)
2023
Zwinger x Carmen Westermeier, Theater & Orchester Heidelberg (performance)
Queer to stay - ***starchildren, Zeitraumexit Mannheim (group exhibition & performance)
Als wäre ich du, basis projektraum Frankfurt am Main (group exhibition)
BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART Mulhouse 023, Motoco Mulhouse France (group exhibition)
Bouncing Boundaries, TOR art space Frankfurt am Main (performance & group exhibition)
2022
EXTRA BOLD, Paradoxon Heidelberg (solo exhibition)
EXTRA BOLD, Kultur Kiosk Stuttgart (solo exhibition)
HfG Karlsruhe Graduates 21/22, Hochschule für Gestaltung KA (group exhibition)
Literal Bodies, Künstlerhaus Nürnberg (group exhibition)
sister twister, Zeitraumexit, Mannheim (performance)
EXTRA BOLD, Trigger Theaterfestival, Nürnberg (performance & installation)
EigenArt Kunstpreis, Bremervörde (group exhibition)
abibi Kiosk, Kammerspiele München (talk & exhibition)
2021
Diving Deep Into The Space of Interaction, Dresden (performance)
Experimance Festival für Klangkunst, Saarbrücken (performance)
The Body Image as Human Image as Brave New Bodies, Leipzig (group exhibition)
Hoffnung bewegt, Künstlerhaus Karlsruhe (group exhibition)
2020
Ars Electronica, Pla(n)tform, Linz (online group exhibition)
Bewegliche Identitäten, Kulturbunker, Köln (group exhibition)
Story of Lilith Burmond, Esslingen (performance)
RIXC Art Science Festival, Riga (group exhibition)
2019
DAF goes CHE, Nextex, St. Gallen (CH) (group exhibition)
Frauen.Bilder.Weiterdenken, Erlangen (lecture performance)
Künstlerhaus im KunstKulturQuartier, Nürnberg (performance)
Museumsquartier, YUP, Osnabrück, (performance & exhibition)
Galerie Defektur, Berlin (performance)
Electronic Synthesis, Chemnitz (performance)
Nordkurve, Nürnberg (performance)
2018
Tape Loop Orchester, K4, Nürnberg (performance & sound)
Sheela Na Gig, Akademie d.B.K., Nürnberg (solo exhibition w J. Hainz)
TapeLoopOrchester, It isn't happening, Nürnberg (sound&performance)
Beauty & Nails by Carmen, Oettinger V., Dortmund (performance)
Heavy Metal Erntedank., Kunstpalais, Erlangen (group exhibition)
Sheela Na Gig, Ludwigs, Nürnberg (solo exhibition)
publications
2023
Position Körper Kunst Klassismus, Gespräch, Ausstellungskatalog
2022
Frame[less] Magazin, https://www.frame-less.net
2021
Umbau Magazin, Idealform, https://umbau.hfg-karlsruhe.de/posts/idealform
2021
Carmen Westermeier: Coworking auf dem Trecker. Das menschliche Auge und die Digitalisierung in der Landwirtschaft. In: Matthias Bruhn, Kathrin Friedrich, Lydia Kähny und Moritz Queisner (Hg.): Adaptivität. Begriffe des digitalen Bildes. Bd 1, München 2021, S. 48–70. https://doi.org/10.5282/ubm/epub.76958
awards/stipends
2025
CULT. Dialogue and exchange grant, UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts, Karlsruhe and Modena (Italy)
YouTransfer e.V. stipend, Stuttgart
Project funding *"Symbiotic Approach"*, City of Stuttgart
2024
winner DIANA art price, Offenbach am Main
Artist residency, The Baden-Württemberg - Catalonia exchange grant, Hangar Barcelona
Project funding *"Symbiotic Approach"*, City of Stuttgart
2023
Studio funding, City of Stuttgart
2021
Auftakt Kunst, City of Heidelberg
2019
Artist residency & stipend, Summer Academy Salzburg
2018
Ausstellungslabor, AdBK Nürnberg, Bay. Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung, Kunst
HfG Karlsruhe, exchange programme, AdBK Nürnberg, Bay. Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung, Kunst
2016
Artist residency *„Sommercampus 2016“*, Kalbe
2016
Artist residency *„Wintercampus 2016“*, Kalbe
teaching
07/2023 Mediation in Transformation – Summerschool (4-day lecture and workshop program)
02/2023 Mediation in Transformation – Winterschool (3-day lecture and workshop program)
since 2022 Conception of Mediation in Transformation – an experimental field at the interface of art, theory, and education
since 2022 Research assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, 2-4 SWS
2020/21 Lectureship at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Nuremberg/Erlangen at the Chair of Pedagogy with focus on Culture and Aesthetic Education
A performative research by
Julia Hainz + Carmen Westermeier
Contact us
Julia Hainz
*1993 Mainburg
PhD candidate at Hfg Offenbach
since 2022 artistic assistant at Kunsthochschule Kassel
education
2023 Sommerakademie Salzburg - Exploring the Earth as Lover: New Approaches to Environmental Art (Beth Stevens and Annie Sprinkle)
2019 Meisterschülerin (Prof. Heike Baranowsky)
2015 – 2019 AdBK Nuremberg (Prof. Heike Baranowsky)
2017 – 2018 AdBK Vienna (Prof. Ashley Hans Scheirl)
2013 – 2015 AdBK Nuremberg (Prof. Eva von Platen)
exhibitions and performances
2024
Hangar Obert, Hangar Barcelona (open studio, performance with Carmen Westermeier)
ephemeral, Kunstpreis Diana Rumpenheim (video Installation with Carmen Westermeier)
I A HYPHEN, E-Werk Freiburg (performance with Mirjam Walter)
(Maybe) you cringed me..., Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (performance with Carmen Westermeier)
2023
ruins of refueling, Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt/Main (performance)
tasty tongue, Stadtgalerie Zwergelgartenpavillon Salzburg (performance)
bouncing boundaries, TOR Art Space Frankfurt/Main (performance, installation with Carmen Westermeier)
2022
Die Stärke von deiner Brust lecken, basis Projektraum Frankfurt/Main (performance, installation with Peter Oberloher)
literal bodies, Künstlerhaus Nuremberg (installation)
2021
crank the disc down, Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt/ Main (performance with Veronika Haller)
2020
NO HOLD ON, Kunstverein Schweinfurt (solo exhibition: performance, installation)
Unmuted, Mañana Bold, The Frankfurt Art Experience (performance)
Will you be my brick, Kunstpalais Erlangen (performance with Simone Körner)
2019
Affektive Allianzen, Schloss Callenberg Coburg (performance, installation with Simone Körner)
Young Urban Performance Festival Osnabrück (performance, installation with Carmen Westermeier)
mapping my murmur, Absolvent*innen AdBK Nuremberg (performance, installation)
2018
Sheela Na Gig, AdBK Nuremberg (solo exhibition: performance, installation with Carmen Westermeier)
Heavy Metal Erntedank, Kunstpalais Erlangen (installation with Carmen Westermeier)
publications
2024
Über ein weites Netz an Kompliz*innen, in: Alex Hojenski: Durchsichtige Träger:innen. Transparent Carriers
2022
spaced bodies - Im Zwischenraum der Aufführung, in: springerin 2/2022 hysterien
2020
NO HOLD ON manifesto, Kunstverein Schweinfurt
curatorial projects
2023
als wäre ich du, basis Projektraum Frankfurt/Main (curation: group exhibition)
2022
literal bodies (concept and curation with Simone Körner: group exhibition)
body on festival, Künstlerhaus Nuremberg (concept and curation with Melina Geitz: queer feminist festival with music, performances, workshops and movies)
2021
body on - Trouble in paradise festival, Künstlerhaus Nuremberg (concept and curation with Melina Geitz and Carolin Wabra: queer feminist festival with performances, workshops and movies)
2019
Schlafende Hunde - Künstlerhaus Nuremberg (concept and curation with Alex Hojenski and Michael Akstaller: experimental sound and performance festival)
awards
2025
Project funding The Symbiotic Approach, City of Stuttgart (with Carmen Westermeier)
2024
YouTransfer scholarship (with Carmen Westermeier)
Kunstpreis Diana (with Carmen Westermeier)
Project funding The Symbiotic Approach, City of Stuttgart (with Carmen Westermeier)
Culture Moves Europe funding
Exchanges Grant, Hangar Barcelona (with Carmen Westermeier)
2020
Debütant*innenförderung Schweinfurt
Kulturpreis Bayern
teaching
since 2022 artistic assistant at the department of art education Kunsthochschule Kassel
2024
Identität als Handlungsfeld wiederständiger Praktiken (seminar at the Department of art theory AdBK Nuremberg)
A Praise for TechnoGaia, (The Symbiotic Approach workshop, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart with Carmen Westermeier)
2023
Um_Üben: How to try out transformations? (workshop at AbK Stuttgart)
2022
material scripts (workshop series at Hfg Offenbach)
2021
Choreografien der Formgebung (workshop at Hfg Offenbach)
exhibitions and performances
2024
Hangar Obert, Hangar Barcelona (open studio, performance)
ephemeral, Kunstpreis DIANA, Offenbach am Main (installation)
(Maybe) you cringed me,…, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (performance)
2023
Zwinger x Carmen Westermeier, Theater & Orchester Heidelberg (performance)
Queer to stay - ***starchildren, Zeitraumexit Mannheim (group exhibition & performance)
Als wäre ich du, basis projektraum Frankfurt am Main (group exhibition)
BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART Mulhouse 023, Motoco Mulhouse France (group exhibition)
Bouncing Boundaries, TOR art space Frankfurt am Main (performance & group exhibition)
2022
EXTRA BOLD, Paradoxon Heidelberg (solo exhibition)
EXTRA BOLD, Kultur Kiosk Stuttgart (solo exhibition)
HfG Karlsruhe Graduates 21/22, Hochschule für Gestaltung KA (group exhibition)
Literal Bodies, Künstlerhaus Nürnberg (group exhibition)
sister twister, Zeitraumexit, Mannheim (performance)
EXTRA BOLD, Trigger Theaterfestival, Nürnberg (performance & installation)
EigenArt Kunstpreis, Bremervörde (group exhibition)
abibi Kiosk, Kammerspiele München (talk & exhibition)
2021
Diving Deep Into The Space of Interaction, Dresden (performance)
Experimance Festival für Klangkunst, Saarbrücken (performance)
The Body Image as Human Image as Brave New Bodies, Leipzig (group exhibition)
Hoffnung bewegt, Künstlerhaus Karlsruhe (group exhibition)
2020
Ars Electronica, Pla(n)tform, Linz (online group exhibition)
Bewegliche Identitäten, Kulturbunker, Köln (group exhibition)
Story of Lilith Burmond, Esslingen (performance)
RIXC Art Science Festival, Riga (group exhibition)
2019
DAF goes CHE, Nextex, St. Gallen (CH) (group exhibition)
Frauen.Bilder.Weiterdenken, Erlangen (lecture performance)
Künstlerhaus im KunstKulturQuartier, Nürnberg (performance)
Museumsquartier, YUP, Osnabrück, (performance & exhibition)
Galerie Defektur, Berlin (performance)
Electronic Synthesis, Chemnitz (performance)
Nordkurve, Nürnberg (performance)
2018
Tape Loop Orchester, K4, Nürnberg (performance & sound)
Sheela Na Gig, Akademie d.B.K., Nürnberg (solo exhibition w J. Hainz)
TapeLoopOrchester, It isn't happening, Nürnberg (sound&performance)
Beauty & Nails by Carmen, Oettinger V., Dortmund (performance)
Heavy Metal Erntedank., Kunstpalais, Erlangen (group exhibition)
Sheela Na Gig, Ludwigs, Nürnberg (solo exhibition)
publications
2023
Position Körper Kunst Klassismus, Gespräch, Ausstellungskatalog
2022
Frame[less] Magazin, https://www.frame-less.net
2021
Umbau Magazin, Idealform, https://umbau.hfg-karlsruhe.de/posts/idealform
2021
Carmen Westermeier: Coworking auf dem Trecker. Das menschliche Auge und die Digitalisierung in der Landwirtschaft. In: Matthias Bruhn, Kathrin Friedrich, Lydia Kähny und Moritz Queisner (Hg.): Adaptivität. Begriffe des digitalen Bildes. Bd 1, München 2021, S. 48–70. https://doi.org/10.5282/ubm/epub.76958
awards/stipends
2025
CULT. Dialogue and exchange grant, UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts, Karlsruhe and Modena (Italy)
YouTransfer e.V. stipend, Stuttgart
Project funding *"Symbiotic Approach"*, City of Stuttgart
2024
winner DIANA art price, Offenbach am Main
Artist residency, The Baden-Württemberg - Catalonia exchange grant, Hangar Barcelona
Project funding *"Symbiotic Approach"*, City of Stuttgart
2023
Studio funding, City of Stuttgart
2021
Auftakt Kunst, City of Heidelberg
2019
Artist residency & stipend, Summer Academy Salzburg
2018
Ausstellungslabor, AdBK Nürnberg, Bay. Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung, Kunst
HfG Karlsruhe, exchange programme, AdBK Nürnberg, Bay. Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung, Kunst
2016
Artist residency *„Sommercampus 2016“*, Kalbe
2016
Artist residency *„Wintercampus 2016“*, Kalbe
teaching
07/2023 Mediation in Transformation – Summerschool (4-day lecture and workshop program)
02/2023 Mediation in Transformation – Winterschool (3-day lecture and workshop program)
since 2022 Conception of Mediation in Transformation – an experimental field at the interface of art, theory, and education
since 2022 Research assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, 2-4 SWS
2020/21 Lectureship at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Nuremberg/Erlangen at the Chair of Pedagogy with focus on Culture and Aesthetic Education
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Articulations defines through Articulations, more commonly known as joints, are crucial components of the human body, enabling movement and providing support. These intersections where bones meet are complex structures composed of cartilage, ligaments, tendons, and synovial fluid. Understanding the various types of joints and their functions can offer insights into how our bodies maintain mobility and stability.