Residency 2022
Joulia Strauss (www.joulia-strauss.net) is an artist, activist and multimedia sculptor. She was born as Mari, one of Europe’s last indigenous cultures with a shamanic tradition, and lives and works in Athens and Berlin. Her sculptures, paintings, performances, drawings and video works have been seen in solo and group exhibitions at the Pergamon Museum and Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, at Tate Modern, as well as at the Tirana Biennale, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Athens Biennale, the Kyiv Biennial, the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, and documenta14, among others. She (with Friedrich Kittler, Peter Berz, and Peter Weibel) is the editor of Götter und Schriften rund ums Mittelmeer (“Gods and Writing around the Mediterranean”, Wilehlm Fink, 2017). She teaches Việt Võ Đạo Kung Fu, plays on a reconstruction of an Ancient Greek lyre, and is currently finalizing her film Transindigeneous Assembly. Strauss is the founder and organizer of Avtonomi Akadimia in Athens: www.avtonomi-akadimia.net.
