instagram – Johanna Strobel

hijoylo

🪶🦋www.johannastrobel.com ⏰🪢

I’m very happy to invite you to the opening of T

I’m very happy to invite you to the opening of THE MOON IS NO DOOR @heldenreizer_contemporary opening on Thursday April 3 from 6-9pm.
I’ll be showing a new series of ceramics sculptures in best company together with @luisabaldhuber and @michaelhirschbichler

The group exhibition The Moon Is No Door brings together three artistic positions that engage in striking ways with space, perception, and meaning. Its point of departure is a quote from Sylvia Plath’s poem The Moon and the Yew Tree (1961), in which inner landscapes of thought intertwine with cosmic space. In the poem, color and light become means to render both mental and external dimensions of space tangible. The exhibition title plays with this poetic dissonance: The moon is no door—yet precisely through this literal impossibility, a conceptual space opens between inside and outside, between the material and the imaginary, between meaning and ambiguity. Subjectivity here appears not merely as a mode of spatial existence, but reveals that it is not the human who produces space, but space that shapes the human.

In their formal and conceptual diversity, the three positions negotiate the central questions of the exhibition: space as a realm of possibility, as a conceptual structure, as a body. The Moon Is No Door opens not only metaphorical threshold spaces between inside and outside, but also sketches a poetic coordinate system of material, light, structure, and imagination.

Pictures here: Body II, 2025, Ceramics, cotton webbing, metal fasteners, aluminum leaf
95 x 43 x 29 cm / 37,5 x 17 x 11.5 inches (Photo: @dominik_bindl )

#bittekommen #wouldlovetoseeyou #contemporaryceramics #exhibition #contemporarysculpture #knots #entanglement #moon #door #apple #heart #aluminumleaf #johannastrobel #ribcage #newwork #bodiesinspace

Do you know that feeling when you wait so long for

Do you know that feeling when you wait so long for something to happen, that you feel almost alienated from it when it does? It’s finally online! I felt as nervous watching my TEDxTalk on Youtube as I had felt when I gave the talk last April.
#linkinbio I hope you enjoy watching!

🫀My Heart is a knot in Motion is a lecture performance and animated video given at the 2024 TEDxCUNY Conference in New York City.🪢
🪡Responding to the theme of the Conference, UNRAVEL, My Heart is a knot in Motion speaks about entanglement. About knots, knot theory, networks and nets. About how every knot is an intentional complication that is whole in itself. About the connection it creates. My Heart is a Knot in Motion talks about threads we follow and that we pass on to tell stories and how these stories shape the world. And about tying tight knots, about becoming entangled, about networks that are not about structure and technology but about safety, care, and love. About nets of (interspecies) solidarity and connectivity that we cannot allow to unravel. That we need to weave these nets tighter so that not another single knot will slip. And about legendary great man solving knots with swords. Great men that we need to overcome and swords we need to bury so that these swords may fossilize. So that we can tell new stories, not about great men, not about swords, but about nets that can catch, contain and carry. Because these new stories can create new worlds.
Worlds for us to live in.🧶

Thank you again to everyone who helped and supported me in this process: the TEDxCUNY Team and my friends and family, who read my drafts, gave me feedback, listened to me practicing a hundred times, discussed outfits, sent me kind encouraging messages and came to the talk. I really appreciate you. It was A LOT of work, in parts nerve-racking, but also an opportunity and experience that I would not want to miss!

#knots #knottheory #networks #nets #connectivity #mutuality #solidarity #entanglement #lectureperformance #3Danimation #animatedvideo #change #connection #mathematics #contemporaryart #unravel #tedxtalk #tedx #ted #tedtalk #tedxcuny #tedxconference

I’m very happy to be showing new work @untitleda

I’m very happy to be showing new work @untitledartfairs
With @galerielesmeister @in.silvis @giuliadallolio

Come say hi at booth A68

Time is sensation of direction
2024
Oil on canvas
2 panels each 40x30 inch

#birds #pigeon #clock #shadow #time #painting #oiloncanvas #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #workandtravel #untitledartdair #miamibeach

🕊ten more days to visit My Heart is not a Clock

🕊ten more days to visit My Heart is not a Clock @pompei_ny

My Heart is not a clock is an installation of two ceramic sculptures and a virtual reality video.

The immersive video explores concepts of circular time and the loss of species through human caused extinction. Situated in a stylized version of the Villa Farnesina in Rome, the voiceover narration follows the example of the passenger pigeon’s extinction in the early 20th century and its possible future de-extinction through cloning throughout the circle of time.

If you imagine circular time as if on a compass the absent lies as a counterpoint to the temporal present between the future and the past. At least that’s what someone on Reddit explained.

The frescos on the walls of the loggia of the villa farnesina feature nothing but empty pedestals painted in grisaille.

Martha, the last known passenger pigeon died on September 1st, 1914 in the Cincinnati zoo. Her skin is preserved as part of the Smithsonian collection.

When you‘re reported dead meta will memorialize your account so better set up a legacy contact in time.

De-extinction (also known as resurrection biology, or species revivalism) is the process of generating an organism that either resembles or is an extinct species.

The show is up until November 1. Hit me up if you’d like to meet there.

#ceramics #wax #sculpture #contemporarysculpture #infrared #loss #extinction #birds #virtualreality #renaissance #resurrection #360video #exhibition #installation #cloning #accelaration #runningout #martha #passengers #circularity #time #myheartisnotaclock

🌋🕊 Very happy to share some installation sho

🌋🕊 Very happy to share some installation shots of My Heart is not a Clock @pompei_ny

My Heart is not a clock is an installation of two ceramic sculptures and a virtual reality video.

The immersive video explores philosophical concepts of circular time and the loss of species through human caused extinction. Situated in a stylized version of the Villa Farnesina in Rome, the voiceover narration follows the example of the passenger pigeon’s extinction in the early 20th century and its possible future de-extinction through cloning throughout the circle of time.

The multiple-part ceramics sculptures contain infrared heat emitters. Over time a cast paraffin wax bird melts into the lower part of the first sculpture, which functions as an egg-shaped mold and so the bird become an egg again. The second sister sculpture reverses this process – the egg melts into a bird shaped mold. With every iteration some of the wax evaporates, so that in the end just fragments of birds and eggs are cast and remelted until all the wax is gone - the cycle accelerates until it stops.

Thanks everyone who came to the opening! The show is up until November 1. Hit me up if you’d like to meet there.

Photos: @dominik_bindl

#ceramics #wax #sculpture #contemporarysculpture #infrared #loss #extinction #birds #virtualreality #renaissance #resurrection #360video #exhibition #installation #cloning #accelaration #runningout #martha #passengers #circularity #time #myheartisnotaclock

A space with a borrowed name from a time long ago

A space with a borrowed name from a time long ago exists in the present on a distant continent. Buried and frozen in time, yet resurrected again and again another Pompei lies in Brooklyn. In a small room a virtual world expands. Destruction and rebirth repeat not without cost. Accelerated cycles are running dead in the end. History repeats itself - but life passes.
Time is the sensation of memory

I’m very excited to invite you to the opening of
My Heart is not a Clock @pompei_ny
on Friday October 11 from 6-9 pm.

My Heart is not a Clock is an installation of two ceramic sculptures that transform over time and a virtual reality video.
The show be on view from 10/11 – 11/01 Saturday 2-6 and by appointment at
Pompei NY, 681 Morgan Avenue, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Thank you for inviting me @avantpurple
Thank you @mmmoira for a beautiful and smart essay to accompany the video piece. I will share more of Moira’s writing in the coming weeks together with images of the installation.

#ceramics #wax #sculpture #contemporarysculpture #infrared #loss #extinction #birds #virtualreality #renaissance #resurrection #360video #exhibition #installation #cloning #accelaration #runningout #martha #passengers #circularity #time #myheartisnotaclock

Last weekend to visit OVERLOAD @newuncanny 🚨Do

Last weekend to visit OVERLOAD @newuncanny

🚨Don’t miss out! Come to the last day of show music performances on Sunday (see last slide)

🦇🃏❤️‍🔥 The show is great, the venue has starred at the joker movie and I’ve made a site-responsive piece for the show which I’m really excited about! 🕸🤝💡

Thanks to curator @dariocchiali and co-founder @fedotovfedorov and co-founder @the_dancr_next_door for all the hard work and for putting together such a special show!

Para Site
2024
Paraffin wax, usb extension cords, LEDs, plugs
dimensions variable

📸@dominik_bindl

#newuncanny #overload #connection #parasite #electricity #data #order #information #entropy #loss #light #wax #aether #knots #sculpture #siteresponsive
#contemporaryart #contemporarysculpture #usbextensioncords #usb #macrame #nets #networks #connectivity

Finally sharing some installation shots of my solo

Finally sharing some installation shots of my solo presentation @newartdealers with @galerielesmeister
It’s been a bit bumpy in the beginning as you might know, but as you can see in the end it turned out to be amazing!!!
Thanks to all who supported us, helped out and came by. And yes, I also made the furniture.

Photos: @dominik_bindl

#nadanewyork #artfair #soloproject #contemporarypainting #contemporarysculpture #contemporaryart #stressedbuthappy

New (ly revised) website! Yay! Ever since I made m

New (ly revised) website! Yay!
Ever since I made my first artist website (like 10 years ago) I think once a year: now my website is perfect! It’s done! Now I just have to update it regularly! (I used to think that about my artist statement, too)
And then the next year I think of a new feature, functionality, design, content and then I revise and adapt it. Ugh! It’s never going to be finished. But for the moment and hopefully until next year I‘m really happy with the status quo. I even added the first work I ever made in art school and other older works from before 2018 when I was still studying in Munich. Take a look before I take it down again 🫣

Do you feel the same way?
Do you have an old website you need to update, redesign, revise?
Is your website ugly, hard to use, running on an outdated system, buggy?
Did some former lover from a past long gone make your website and now you can’t access or update it without contacting them? (this happens way more often than one might think!)
Did you forget how to access the backend?
Are you still on blogspot or tumblr?
Don’t you have a website?

👩🏼‍💻 I can help you!
Maybe you do maybe you didn’t know because I haven’t advertised it before (and we don’t talk enough about our various day jobs) but I’ve made websites for friends, small businesses, large scale public art projects, with or without user engagement, emerging and mid-career artists alike.

Depending on your budget and interests I can

- 📚🧑‍💻set up a basic framework and structure, and teach you how to expand, complete and update the website yourself

- ✅🗂Build a website with the material you provide (and teach you how to update it yourself if needed)

- 💆‍♀️🏝Create content and build a website as a don’t-bother-me-all-inclusive-pack: I can write, edit, translate (German<->English) your artist statement/bio/resume/cv, edit your photos and regularly update your website for you

💌 DM me!

#linkinbio #workandtravel #website #webdesign #contemporaryart #contemporarysculpture #allesneu #suddenlythisoverview #view #uebersicht #balcony #portfolio

Last week to see Kristallationspunkte #Salz und #z

Last week to see Kristallationspunkte #Salz und #zucker in der Kunst @kunstmuseumheidenheim together with a stellar lineup of #artists curated by @marco_hompes

With works by Christine Braun, Jonas Etter, Takaya Fujii, Helga Franz, Fabian Gatermann, Patricija Gilyte, Fadi al-Hamwi, Nadine Karl, Alice Musiol, Elia Nurvista, Thomas Rentmeister, Tiago Sant’Ana, Johanna Strobel, Kees de Vries, Heidemarie Ziebandt

#salt #time #change #knot #hands #bonnechance #bonneville #contemporarysculpture #contemporaryart #video #momentum #newtonspendulum #now #eternity #sculpture #breaking #ceramics

NEW UNCANNY IS OPENING WITH THE INAUGURAL SHOW 𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗟𝗢𝗔𝗗 MAY 23RD 2024, 6-10PM with special performances all night and I’m stoked to be part of it amongst a brilliant lineup of artists and performers: @14parkplace @emilyfwichtrich @aashish_gadani @elvirahorvei @johnjackperry @helloyasmine @annatingmoller @hijoylo @levanmindi @cal._.fish @liebeliebe @vijay.masharani @bodyconfidence @sydney_shavers @cspenceryeh @smitheressence @ashmoniz @jacobtmuilenburg @eclaytone @ehabib.e @kare_with @anthony.torrano. @niki266

Thanks to curator @dariocchiali and founder @fedotovfedorov and co-founder @the_dancr_next_door for inviting me!!

𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗟𝗢𝗔𝗗𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗟𝗢𝗔𝗗𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗟𝗢𝗔𝗗𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗟𝗢𝗔𝗗

The exhibition will be open on May 23, 6-10PM and Sat-Mon 1-6PM until June 4th + by appointment

#newuncanny #overload #connection #electricity #data #order #information #entropy #loss #light #wax #aether #knots #sculpture #contemporarysculpture #usbextensioncords #usb #macrame

When I was still studying #painting in Munich I ex

When I was still studying #painting in Munich I exclusively painted #black paintings for almost 3 years. Coming to New York I instantly stopped IYKYK why that was ☠️
But I’ve made a sketch for a black painting which I kept throughout the years and now I painted it! And you can come see it and more new works on Saturday when my building and the sister building across the street are doing another #openstudio event!
🌙🍌
Unfortunately I will only be there from 12-4pm because after I’ll be celebrating my amazing friend’s #work and #success!

Please stop by!!

Saturday, May 18, 12-4pm
368 Broadway #405, New York, NY 10013

Two moons
2024
Oil on aluminum
48x36 inches

Looking forward to seeing you!

#moon #banana #blackpainting #grid #window #night #oilpainting #oilonaluminum #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #painting #openstudio #newyorkstudio #pleasecome #crescent #mondbanane #moonbanana

Things have been so busy and exciting the last day

Things have been so busy and exciting the last days, weeks, months - that I never got to post any wip images of this #ceramic #sculpture that I made between February and March and just showed on the roof top of @newartdealers with @galerielesmeister
This piece was probably the most complicated and nerve wrecking thing I’ve made so far - I died a hundred deaths on the Uber ride from the #studio to the #kiln but luckily nothing broke!
It’s a #birdbath, has a #living #heart and features a #nestingsite for #insects in the #pedestal. I hope to show it somewhere #outside for a longer time soon so that it can be enjoyed by human and non-human city dwellers alike.

String figures (Bird Bath)
2024
Ceramic, silicone, fasteners, MDF, wood, plant,
44 x 16 x 16 inches (excluding pedestal)

Photo @dominik_bindl

#contemporarysculpture #contemporaryceramics #ceramicsculpture #mixedmediaart #interdisciplinaryart #artfair #johannastrobel #birds #time #entanglement #systems #knots #citydwellers

I’m thrilled to be showing a solo presentation o

I’m thrilled to be showing a solo presentation of new sculptures and paintings with @galerielesmeister @newartdealers from May 2-5!!
You can find us at NADA PROJECTS | BOOTH P42

🕊👐🦋🪢

Time is sensation, not gravity
2024
Oil on aluminum panel
30 x 72 inches

Photo @dominik_bindl

That is also why you haven’t seen me in the last months except for THAT one public appearance. I’m a vampire now and have only left my windowless studio when almost starved. Slide 5 and 6 is how IG AI imagines my new me. Last slide how I actually feel.

#contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #oilonaluminum #birds #shadows #time #gravity #painting #igai

I’ve always been shy about speaking in front of

I’ve always been shy about speaking in front of groups of people. When I was 20 I had to give my first presentation at university in a seminar on Analytic Geometry II. It was something about Euclidean vector spaces and I was so anxious about it that my dad had to practice it with me several times (which was an incredible drag – it was over an hour long). I couldn’t sleep the night before and during the presentation I had a bright red head, burning cheeks, and shaking hands.

Six months ago I was invited to interview to potentially give a TED Talk with @tedxcuny. One of my students had suggested me (without me knowing) because my class was very inspiring to her. I was so happy and flattered! I mean what could you hope for as a teacher? Still my first impulse was saying ‘no thank you’, because I thought that maybe I wouldn’t have the guts to be speaking in front of more than 20 people, in public, and most of all next to renowned scientists and experts. Then I did the interview anyway because what was there to loose and when the programming team invited me to speak at the conference I didn’t want to be a coward and bail.

It took me a long time to think about what I could say to hundreds of people that would be inspiring to them – especially to a young audience – in these dark times of war, violence, climate crisis and hyper capitalism. And when I had figured something out it was a lot of work: writing, editing, thinking of visuals, timing, animating, practicing, memorizing, practicing, making an outfit, practicing, hating the outfit, practicing, making a new one, practicing, practicing, practicing. And then yesterday

I GAVE A TEDxTALK!!

And it went really well!

This caption is super long- if you read until here, it continues in comments ⤵️

#thanksforcomingtomytedtalk #ididit #TEDxCUNY2024 #TEDxCUNY #UNRAVEL #TEDxCUNYUNRAVEL #TED #TEDTalks
#TEDx #Conference #CUNY #Macaulay #education #nyc #contemporaryart #knots #stringfigures #networks #solidarity #change #strings #threads

🔴 My TEDxTALK is just one week away!! 🧶 Next

🔴 My TEDxTALK is just one week away!! 🧶 Next Friday!
Felt a bit shaky ((🌎)) today but very excited!! 🗣
Hope some of you‘ll come to hear me speak about knots, nets, connectivity, solidarity, change, love and rotting swords. Ticket link in my bio or DM me for friends and family discounts.

#Repost @tedxcuny
・・・
SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT #3 📣🚨

Johanna Strobel is an interdisciplinary artist, working across installation, sculpture, painting, video and VR. She holds degrees in Information Science and Mathematics from Regensburg University and graduated in Painting and Graphics from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. In 2020 she received an MFA from Hunter College. Johanna’s work is concerned with time and related concepts like change, entropy, and information. Weaving together disparate references spanning across histories and geographies, she explores the entanglement between philosophy, semiotics and actuality. Johanna’s work was shown in exhibitions in Germany, Italy, Taiwan, Korea, Canada and the US, including New Museum Nuremberg, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz, Kunstverein Munich, Bethanien, Berlin, Nada House, New York, and NARS Foundation, Brooklyn. Johanna received grants among others by the German Academic Exchange Service, the State of Bavaria, the German Artist Alliance and the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. She is a member of NEW INC and Mensa International.

#TEDxCUNY #CUNY #NYC #TEDTalk #speaker #announcement #art #solidarity #UNRAVEL #Conference #2024 #contemporaryart #change #time #knots #lifesystems #mathproblems

I‘m very happy to be included in Kristallationsp

I‘m very happy to be included in Kristallationspunkte #Salz 🧂 und #Zucker 🍭 in der #Kunst 🪜@kunstmuseumheidenheim 🐳 together with a stellar lineup of #artists curated by @marco_hompes
The #show opens this Saturday 3/23 at 5pm and will be on view until 2/6

With works by Christine Braun, Jonas Etter, Takaya Fujii, Helga Franz, Fabian Gatermann, Patricija Gilyte, Fadi al-Hamwi, Nadine Karl, Alice Musiol, Elia Nurvista, Thomas Rentmeister, Tiago Sant’Ana, Johanna Strobel, Kees de Vries, Heidemarie Ziebandt
@christinebraun.art @poolcoating @fujiitakaya @fabian_gatermann @patricija_gilyte @fadi.alhamwi @nadin.e.karl @alice.musiol @elianurvista @thomas_rentmeister @tiagosantanaarte @hijoylo @keesdevriesart @heidizet

#crystalline #salt #sugar #kunstmuseum #heidenheim #kunstmuseumheidenheim #contemporaryart #contemporarysculpture #material #sculpture #videoart #newmedia #installation #change #time #bonneville #bonnechance #johannastrobel #fist #knot #now #eternity #collapse

🧶Please come to my TED Talk🪢 I’m very hum

🧶Please come to my TED Talk🪢

I’m very humbled to have been invited to speak at the upcoming TEDxCUNY conference.

🧵Although the theme is UNRAVEL I will be speaking about entanglement. About knots, knot theory, networks and nets. About how every knot is an intentional complication that is whole in itself. About the connection it creates. I’ll talk about threads we follow and that we pass on to tell stories and how these stories shape the world. And about tying tight knots, about becoming entangled, about networks that are not about structure and technology but about safety, care, and love. About nets of (interspecies) solidarity and connectivity that we cannot allow to unravel. That we need to weave these nets tighter so that not another single knot will slip. And about legendary great man cutting knots with swords. Great men that we need to overcome and swords we need to bury so that these swords may fossilize. So that we can tell new stories, not about great men, not about swords, but about nets that can catch, contain and carry. Because these new stories can create new worlds. 🪡
Worlds for us to live in.

TEDxCUNY 2024: UNRAVEL
Friday, April 12
9am - 4:30pm
Gerald W Lynch Theater
524 West 59th Street
New York, NY 10019

You can buy tickets via @tedxcuny #linkinbio or dm me. I have a few reduced ones for friends and family 🫂

#ted #tedtalk #tedx #tedxtalk #cuny #knots #knottheory #net #networks #connectivity #solidarity #entanglement #change #climatechange #unravel #art #contemporaryart #lectureperformance #interdisciplinaryart #soexcitedforthis

I talked with @jessica_mensch about #recentproject

I talked with @jessica_mensch about #recentprojects, #language, #circularlogic, #time, #extinctbirds and my parents‘ #kitchenclock for the #fallissue of @b_o_d_y_l_i_t

Here are some excerpts- #linkinbio for the full #interview

💜 Thanks Jessica for the thoughtful questions, the inspiring conversations and fun visit 💜

Photos @dominik_bindl and Annette Kradisch / @neues_museum_nuernberg

🚨Open Studios ⏰ next Saturday 11/18 from 12-6

🚨Open Studios ⏰ next Saturday 11/18 from 12-6pm

40 #artists and 10 #galleries in my building and the sister building across the street are opening their spaces for #openstudios next Saturday 11/18 from 12-6 pm.

It’s the first open studios since before the pandemic and I’m super excited!!
Please come by 368 Broadway #405 (Tribeca☝️not Brkln⛔️) and see this #prototype and more #worksinprogress!

Pictured #wip:
🕊My heart is not a Clock (running out), 2023, ceramics, paraffin wax, silicone, ceramic heating element, cable, fasteners, 28 x 9 x 9 inches
Under a heating element a cast paraffin bird melts into the lower part of the sculpture that contains as an egg-shaped mold and becomes an egg again. A sister sculpture reverses the process – the egg melts into a bird shaped mold. With every iteration some of the paraffin evaporates, just fragments are cast and remelted until all the wax is gone - the cycle stops.🥚

#openstudios #contemporaryart #contemporarysculpture #nyart #ceramics #sculpture #whydobirdssuddenlyappear #martha #myheartisnotaclock #broadway #tribecagalleries #tribecastudios #studiovisit #pleasecome #lookingforwadtoseeyou

👁 new body ~ works just dropped 💧

👁 new body ~ works just dropped 💧

🦋I have a couple of new paintings @art_toronto

🦋I have a couple of new paintings @art_toronto with @galerielesmeister🦋

Flieger
2023
Oil on aluminum
30x24 inches / 76x61 cm each
Photos @dominik_bindl

Visit them in booth #C61

#falter #flieger #butterfly #paperplane #oilonaluminum #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #arttoronto #change #time #shadow

💫 I’m a Y10 member of @newinc the @newmuseum

💫 I’m a Y10 member of @newinc the @newmuseum ‘s #incubator for #art, #design and #technology 🥚
It’s so wonderful to meet so many incredible people and learn about their #practices, #aspirations and #dreams 🌱
The first couple of weeks have been so inspiring, productive and fun 🍎 and a bit overwhelming in a very good way!!!
Very #excited for the things to come💓

Last day to visit WasitacatisaW at NADA House @new

Last day to visit WasitacatisaW at NADA House @newartdealers @governorsisland Nolan Park House 18, New York

🏡🪢💅🌕❤️💙💫

#wasitacatisaw #exhibition #contemporaryart #palindrome #stringfigures #catscradle #vonhintenwievonvorne #oilonaluminum #contemporarypainting #contemporaryschulpture #information #play #entropy #time #entanglements #cables #usb #paraffin #wax #3bodyproblem #structure #networks #power #lightspeed #newwork #newyork

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