Joanna Hoffmann-Dietrich
Dr. Joanna Hoffmann-Dietrich is an artist and academic and a Professor at the University of Fine Arts in Poznań in Poland and a Fellow of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland.
From 1987 to 1992 Hoffmann-Dietrich studied for her degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań before starting her MA in 1992 and gained her PhD in 2000.
Hoffmann-Dietrich mostly works in the fields of multimedia installations, experimental video-animation, and book art. She has been a Professor at the University of Fine Arts in Poznań since 2009 and head of the Studio for Transdisciplinary Projects and Research. She is also co-founder and Chair of the and the Club for Science and Art in Poznań. Her artistic works have been widely presented including at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Warsaw; the Science Museum/DANA Centre in London; ICA in London; Transmediale in Berlin; the European Patent Office in Berlin; , and at the MUSE Centre of Photography and Moving Image in New York. Her art residences include the German Cancer Research Center /Heidelberg University; Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg; Srishti School of Art Design and Technology and the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore; KHOJ, International Artists' Association and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in New Delhi.
Her solo exhibitions include: 'a few steps above, a few degrees aside' at the in London ; 'Up and Down' at the Commercial Gallery in London ; 'Between distances' at the Galerie Horst Dietrich in Berlin ; 'Walls' at the Bereznitsky Gallery in Berlin ; 'Microscape' at the Poznań Science Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and 'Avant-gout of epiMesis for the new holoWorld' at the Central European Congress of Biotechnology in Krakow.
