Johanna Ralser

Johanna Ralser's practice unfolds at the political and social intersections of the performative, encompassing curatorial as well as other assembling and process-based artistic disciplines. Their work cruises between institutional and self-organized contexts—from university teaching to freelance theatre work and curatorial projects developed within collective structures. Driven by a search for strategies that understand difference as a productive form of relation, Ralser’s research focuses on theories of solidarity, resistance, and care. Learning from and thinking with queer-feminist, decolonial, and discrimination-sensitive positions, Ralser understands these perspectives as resources for imagining the not-yet: worlds beyond patriarchal, capitalist, hegemonic, imperialist, orientalist, antisemitic, fascist, racist, and heteronormative realities.

Johanna Ralser is white, non-binary, queer, and able-bodied, with an autoimmune condition. They were born into a working-class family in a bilingual (Italian/German) region of Northern Italy and currently live in Leipzig, Germany. Ralser has had access to higher education and holds degrees in Stage and Costume Design as well as Curatorial Studies. They are currently pursuing a PhD at the HFBK Hamburg.