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Johanna Keimeyer (born 1982) is a German artist. She studied art and design, both in Germany and internationally, and has worked designing lighting fixtures, as well as experimenting with different photography techniques.
Keimeyer was born in Filderstadt and grew up in Ueberlingen on Lake Constance. After finishing high school, she completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter at the wood working school of technology in Stuttgart-Feuerbach and as an upholsterer with Vitra AG in Weil am Rhein and Birsfelden in Switzerland.
She completed her education at Berlin University of the Arts, where she studied Product and Fashion Design, and at Tama Art University in Tokyo, where she studied Product Design. Keimeyer also studied Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design and at the MIT Media Lab in Boston, Massachusetts. [1]
From 2006 to 2011 Keimeyer worked mostly with lamps. She was noteworthy for designing light fixtures from recycled materials collected throughout Europe. During this period, she attended a workshop with Brazilian furniture designers Humberto and Fernando Campana. [2] Keimeyer was commissioned by Alexander von Vegesack to create the lamp Trashure 2. Vegesack included the lamp in his private collection and presented it in the exhibition Adventure with Objects, which took place in Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli in Turin, Italy. [3] The Italian TV station RAI Uno reported on the exhibition and subsequently Keimeyer's upcycled lamps were featured in a show about Berlin's creatives. [4]
In 2012, Keimeyer staged her master thesis at Berlin University of the Arts, entitled Everything is Illusion. [5] Between 2008 and 2013, she created an underwater photographic series called Pool Around Me, [6] realized with the support of Martin Nicholas Kunz. Photographer Ed Ruscha photographed private pools in a similar series to show the uniformity of the pools and of the people. Keimeyer, on the other hand, shows bodies in hotel pools and, in contrast to Ruscha, places people back in the foreground. In 2016, Keimeyer staged a dance performance with five dancers and a light show during the re-opening of the Berlin Oderberger Stadtbad, a historic public bath restored into a hotel. [7] The elaborate performance received wide media coverage. [8] Photos from Pool Around Me were used to furnish the hotel rooms at Oderberger Stadtbad. [9] In 2017 she realized the installation "Breathing Heart" as part of the official program of Art Basel. For this she created an enormous passable heart. [10] Since 2020, Keimeyer has worked as a lecturer at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin HTW) and as a lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin UdK). [11]
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