Johanna Michaela Reich
Minden (Westphalia, Germany), 1977
Period of residence: April 2007 – August 2007
Johanna Reich has a Fine Arts degree from the Academies of Fine Arts in Muenster and in Hamburg (Kunstakademie Münster, HfbK Hamburg) and postgraduate studies at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, when she’s living and working nowadays. In 2006 she received the Nam June Paik Award and in 2009 the supporting award of the state of NRW for media arts; And their artwork have been shown all over the world ((Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Köln; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tokio Metropolitan Museum of Photography).
Reich works in video-art, experimenting with different media (video, photography and installation). Her work pays special attention to video performances, in which she plays (literally and metaphorically) with the cam, deceiving it and questioning its image. This way, Reich focuses on the tension between the objectivity of digitally processed images and the latent sensuality and poetry.
johanna.m.reich(at)gmail.com
