Biography

Jana Maria Dohmann (born 1988) works at the intersection of performative research, visual art, and dialogical art mediation. With an academic background in Cultures of the Curatorial (MA) and Cultural Work (BA), alongside many years of experience in dance, somatic bodywork, and dance therapy (currently pursuing further professional training), her work explores strategies and approaches to radically democratic exhibition-making, emancipatory learning practices and spaces, and forms of solidarity in action.Her artistic and curatorial practice focuses in particular on collaborative creative processes, as exemplified by works and actions such as Reading Choir (2025), Stimuli (2026), and Tummeltage(2023). She is co-founder of the project space AKTIONSHAUS (2023–2026) and the action-poetic art and learning space A Book is A Room (where we can meet) (since 2021).She is currently curating the programme series TOOOOLS – A Workshop for Experimental Library Use, which invites artistic interventions into the everyday space of the library.Her collaborations include Gropius Bau, Kunstverein Leipzig, documenta, Kunstverein Kärnten, STATE Studio Berlin, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Boros Collection Berlin, Tino Sehgal, Haus1, HGB Leipzig, Das Buchprojekt, Somatische Akademie Berlin, Interkulturanstalten Westend, Berlin Mondiale, Archiv der Avantgarden, and Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek, among others.