Johanna Hardt (she/her)
Curator | Writer | Translator
Contact Information
johannahardt@googlemail.com 


Bio
Johanna Hardt is a curator of contemporary art, writer, and translator. Her research focuses on feminist theory and the relationship between technology, nature, and culture. She has worked with and for the Heidelberger Kunstverein in Germany, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Cubitt Artists and Corsica Studios in London, and the Azkuna Zentroa Museum in Bilbao. She holds an MA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA in Cultural Studies from Leuphana University, Lüneburg. 
Exhibitions 
Winds of the Anthropocene
Sep 3, 2023 - Nov 19, 2023
at Heidelberger Kunstverein
The film exhibition presents five artistic films that explore alternative ways of relating to the earth. The positions deal with biological and technological systems and explore the connection between human and non-human history.
With works by Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Kyriaki Goni, Arjuna Neuman & Denise Ferreira da Silva, Sybille Neumeyer, Mimi Onuoha
Eloïse Bonneviot, Anne de Boer: Tracing a Seeping Terrain
Sep 3, 2023 - Dec 3, 2023
at Heidelberger Kunstverein

The exhibition by Eloïse Bonneviot (FR, 1986) and Anne de Boer (NL, 1987) explores cultural responses to the accelerating ecological crisis through game mechanics. 
Supported by Innovationsfonds Kunst des Ministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg
Katinka Eichhorn, Jordan Madlon: Wo der Raum vorbeifliegt
Sep 5, 2022 - Jan 15, 2023
at Heidelberger Kunstverein
The first joint exhibition of the Mannheim-based artists Katinka Eichhorn (b. 1993) and Jordan Madlon (b. 1989). Their image-objects move between painting, sculpture, poetry, assemblage, and drawing. They expand in space and become bodies. 
Caterina Gobbi: my eyes are wild, my lips tight-pressed
January 18–February 2, 2020
at ZÖNOTÉKA (Hobrechtstraße 54, 12047 Berlin)
A Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM program
Featuring a text by Holly Hunter
Produced by Reforma, Berlin
Texts
Photo by Ériver Hijano
Jakob Kudsk Steensen Studio Visit | Published in 2021 by BerlinArtLink 
Extract: Berlin is a city wrenched from wetlands. Its erection at the junction of the Spree and Havel rivers meant taming the water to build a new world. No longer a settlement by the swamp, Berlin’s urban history as a marsh metropolis aligns it with other major cities in the world. 
Writing
Images courtesy of the artist, Mor Charpentier, Paris and Heidelberger Kunstverein. Photo Tanja Meißner & HDKV.
Marwa Arsanios, Booklet | Published in 2023 by the Heidelberger Kunstverein
On the occasion of Marwa Arsanios' solo exhibition "Matter of Alliances" 
Design: KontextKommunikation Heidelberg
ISBN: 978-3-948096-99-1+
Editing, Writing

Jayson Haebich, photo Chiara dalla Rosa

568 rows 18 columns, with new media artist Jayson Haebich | Published in 2018 at Cubitt Artists, London
“568 rows 18 columns” is a project that investigates how an archive informs the identity of a cultural institution while exploring the possibilities and limits of visual data representations such as graphs and maps. Result of Archival Fellowship at Cubitt Artists
Fellowship, Writing, Curating
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