Prof. Dr. Judith Bihr
Zur Person (Kopie 1)
- Globale Medienkunst
- Medienarchäologie
- Kuratorische Studien mit Bezug zu transkultureller Medienästhetik, Vermittlung und Publikumsentwicklung
- Innovative Ausstellungskonzepte
- Digitalität / Digitalisierung in der musealen u. kuratorischen Praxis
Projects (Kopie 2)
2026
Co-host of the international conference “The Global Composition 2026. Connective Resonance for (Post)Humans”, 3 – 6 September 2026, Darmstadt/Dieburg
https://tgc2026.medienkultur.eu/
2024-2026
Research project and mobile artist residency as part of the exhibition “Art for the People. The History of Participatory Art”, Museum Biberach
Funding Program: Kunst und Kultur, Baden-Württemberg Stiftung
2016-2018
“Trauma & Revival. Art in Europe 1945-1968”
Cooperation partners: ZKM | Karlsruhe, Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels, Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, Association kim? in Riga, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art in Poland and University Jyväskylä in Finland
Funding Program: Creative Europe CULTURE
Scientific and artistic activities (Kopie 1)
Lectures
15/11/2025. Die mediale Rezeption von Anselm Kiefer in Deutschland, Symposium within the framework of the exhibition Anselm Kiefer: Solaris, Dokkyō-University, Japan
23/10/2025. Rethinking the Anthropocene. Curatorial Approaches at the Intersection of Posthumanism and Ecofeminism, as part of the workshop Posthuman Ecofeminism in Art, Literature, and Aesthetics, University of Bonn
19/07/2025. Rethinking Global Art. The Transcultural Turn in Art History, as part of the conference Ex\\Immersio. Dialogs – Taking up the Thread, h_da
03/07/2020. The digital Museum. Challenges and opportunities of digital and immersive online strategies in the cultural field, a spart of the conference Ex\\Immersio, h_da
14/03/2019. Art in Motion, Lecture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing
28/11/2018. The Archive as Artistic Practice in Experimental Films from the Middle East, as part of the conference Research in Film and History, University of Bremen
26/10/2018. Creative Subversion. Augmented Reality Art and the Reappropriation of Public Space, as part of the festival Impakt. Algorithmic Superstructures, Utrecht
08/2017. Knowledge is Sweeter than Honey. Subversive Bildstrategien als kritische Unterwanderung vorgefasster Kategorien im Werk von Susan Hefuna und Marwa Adel, as part of the conference Looking Both Ways. Bildpolitiken zeitgenössischer Künstlerinnen aus dem Nahen Osten und in der Diaspora, Marta Herford Museum
14/11/2016. Rethinking Concepts of Modernity within the Egyptian Art Discourse: The so-called “Surrealists” of the Nile, as part of the workshop The Avant-Garde and its Networks, Orient Institut Beirut
04/06/2016. Pretty Transformations. The Archive as Artistic Practice in Contemporary Egyptian Art Concepts, as part of the conference Troubled Contemporary Art Practices in the Middle East, University of Nicosia
05/09/2015. The Subversive Potential of Calligraphic Structures in Contemporary Egyptian Art within a Transcultural Perspective, as part of the winter academy World Scripts: Concepts and Practices of Writing from a Comparative Perspective, University Cape Town
18/10/2013. The Art of Transdifference, as part of the AMCA conference On Likeness and Difference. Modern Art of the Middle East and the Confines of Modernism, New York University
21/09/2013. Subversive Patterns – Ambivalent Lines. (Re)considering Calligraphical Structures in Post-Revolutionary Egyptian Art, as part of the conference SEN On Lines and Non-Lines, University of Tokyo
22/05/2013. Contemporary Egyptian Art and Culture, as part of the a.r.t.e.s. conference Arts, Humanities and the Value of Interdisciplinary Thinking, Università Ca’ Foscaria Venezi
24/09/2012. Ornamental Breakthroughs. Contemporary Egyptian Art within an Intercultural Discourse, as part of the EUME summer academy Aesthetics and Politics. Counter-Narratives, New Public, and the Role of Dissent in the Arab World, American University Cairo
Exhibitions
Albrecht Schäfer. In the Open Field, Museum Biberach, 2025
Art for the People. The History of Participatory Art, Museum Biberach, 2025
Wolfgang Laib for Jakob Bräckle in Winterreute, Jakob Bräckle‘s Studio House, Winterreute, 2024
Hugo Häring. The world is not quite finished yet, in cooperation with the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and Biberach University of Applied Sciences, Museum Biberach, 2023-2024
Consumption in Art, in cooperation with Kurrent Multimedia Productions, Manila, Museum Biberach, 2022-2023
respektive Peter Weibel, Co-Curator, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2019-2020
Writing the History of the Future. The ZKM Collection, curatorial project management, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2019-2022
Art in Motion. 100 Masterpieces with and through Media, in cooperation with CAFA Art Museum Beijing, Co-Curator, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2018-2019
FEMINIST AVANT-GARDE of the 1970s from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND Collection, Vienna, curatorial project management, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2017-2018
Radical Software. The Raindance Foundation, Media Ecology and Video Art, in cooperation with West, DenHaag, Co-Curator, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2017-2018
Art in Europe 1945–1968, in cooperation with BOZAR, Brussels and A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Moscow, curatorial project management, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2016-2017
GLOBALE: Allah’s Automata. Artifacts of the Arab Islamic Renaissance (800–1200), curatorial project management, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2015-2016
Khaled Hafez | Deciphering the Past within the Present, A.R.T.e.s. gallery, University of Cologne, 2013
Publications (Kopie 1)
Albrecht Schäfer. In the Open Field, Museum Biberach, Biberach 2025
Wolfgang Laib for Jakob Bräckle in Winterreute, Museum Biberach, Biberach 2024
Hugo Häring. The world is not quite finished yet, Wasmuth Verlag, Berlin 2024
Consumption in Art, Museum Biberach, Biberach 2023
Muster der Ambivalenz. Subversive Praktiken in der ägyptischen Kunst der Gegenwart, Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2017
Graffiti als performativer Akt der Subversion, kunsttexte 4/2015. Politische Ikonografie, 2015
Co-Authorship
Art in Motion. 100 Masterpieces with and through Media. An Operative Canon, ed. Siegfried Zielinski and Peter Weibel, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln 2025
KINETISMUS: 100 Years of Electricity in Art, ed. Peter Weibel with Christelle Havranek, Kunsthalle Praha, Praha 2022
Art in Europe 1945 – 1968. The Continent that the EU Does Not Know, ed. Peter Weibel, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe 2017
Experimental Media Cultural Practice and Media Aesthetic Facilitation
Master’s Program International Media Cultural Work (IMC)
Short profile
Judith Bihr is Professor for Experimental Media Cultural Practice and Media Aesthetic Facilitation at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (h_da), where she is responsible for the Master’s Program in International Media Cultural Work (IMC). She previously worked as a curator at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and the Museum Biberach. As a scholarship holder of the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School, she received her PhD in art history from the University of Cologne. Her thesis won the DAVO Dissertation Prize in 2015. Her research and teaching focus on global media art, media archaeology and curatorial studies related to transcultural media aesthetics, mediation and audience development. She has organized national and international exhibitions on these topics and given lectures at numerous conferences in cities such as Cairo, New York, Tokyo, Cape Town and Beijing.