Artist Statement/ Biography

Based on free flowing research and speculation Johanna investigates objects and structures of reality and culture and explores unwieldy concepts like language, perception of time and space, the creation of meaning, the construction of subjectivity and objecthood and the everyday perception and precipitation of these concepts in mundane life. She processes her ideas logically through methods like repetition, recursion and modularity, and associatively through humor and personal memories. Working in a variety of media including video, installation, painting and sculpture, one starting point can lead to multiple outcomes and works in different forms, which share ideas, aesthetics, or pictorial elements. She creates multiple points of access, through humor, consumer or seductive aesthetics, personal memories and piquing the viewer’s intellectual curiosity.

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Johanna Strobel is an interdisciplinary artist from Germany, based in New York City. She holds degrees in Information Science and Mathematics and graduated in painting and graphics from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Honors (Meisterschuelerin of Gregor Hildebrandt). In 2020 she received her MFA from Hunter College New York (New Genres). Johanna participated in numerous exhibitions in Germany, Italy, Taiwan and the US. In 2019 Johanna’s work was shown in a solo exhibition at the Municipal Museum Cordonhaus Cham. She received the Studio funding scholarship and the Debutant Prize of the Bavarian State and several project grants. In September 2020, her second book was published, made possible with grants of LFA Foerderbank and Steiner Foundation, Germany.