Johanna Spieker
this site is under constructionDER BARSCH – Pop-up intervention, Lee Sushi, Braunschweig
Johanna Spieker (b. 1997, Eckernförde) is a Berlin-based multimedia artist with a background in classical ballet and contemporary dance. She holds a diploma in Fine Arts from HBK Braunschweig and has worked as a 3D designer and motion capture artist in both commercial and artistic contexts. In 2020, she co-founded the artist collective Unit 404, now operating as a GbR.
Most of her work revolves around digital spaces and the ways they affect — and often warp — human perception. Through her art, she advocates for ambiguity and empathy within virtual environments. In her current practice she is aiming to develop a reciprocal relationship between dance/movement and computer-generated space.
Education
2015 – 2022 Diploma Fine Arts, HBK Braunschweig
2019 – 2022 Dance scholarship from the Erich Mundstock Stiftung, Musische Akademie Braunschweig (Vaganova-based system)
2001 – 2013 Trained in the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) syllabus, Ballettschule Simone Grabbe Kiel
Money Jobs
2024 – 2025 3D artist, Black Balance Studio / Menzel IT GmbH, Berlin
2022 – 2023 3D artist and motion capture artist, Studio B12 GmbH, Braunschweig
2023 Commissioned 3D design for sculptural installation for Siemens Experience Center The Impact, Erlangen
2020 – today Freelanced 3D artist
Exhibtitions
2025
- Künstlich – groupshow, Kunstverein, Wolfsburg
2024
- Forming a Circle – solshow with Unit 404, Hospital Barmherzige Brüder, Munich
- LISA_LUNA short film festival – screening, with Jonas Meyburg, KOM`MA Theatre, Duisburg
- Mit Klang – groupshow, frappant e.V., Hamburg
- The Wrong Biennale – groupshow, digital exhibition
- Movie nights with d.u.o. – screening, Konsumverein, Braunschweig
2023
- Of not moving at all – with Jonas Meyburg, Studio 10, Oldenburg
- In Neuem Gewand – groupshow, Gewandhaus, Braunschweig
- VisP-Engine – soloshow with Unit 404, Drogerie, Braunschweig
2022
- Plan of Plan(t)s – groupshow with Unit 404, die H_LLE, Braunschweig
- VR4 – soloshow, diploma Exhibition, HBK Braunschweig
- Awarded the LED-Wettbewerb prize – with Unit 404, Volksbank, Braunschweig
- Passagen – groupshow, Burgpassage, Braunschweig
- touching clouds – groupshow, digital exhibition, Gallery 42
- Jour Fixe – groupshow, with Jonas Meyburg, LOT Theater, Braunschweig
2021
- 89. Herbstausstellung – groupshow with Unit 404, Kunstverein Hannover
- gratis ist nicht umsonst – groupshow, Inselwallpark, Braunschweig
- Überbrücken – groupshow, Petritorwall, Braunschweig
- ocean modifier – commissioned work for Siemens, Erlangen
2020
- fluctisono – groupshow, Herrmannshof, Völcksen
- SCHWARZ WEISS GRAU – groupshow, BUNKERHILLGalerie, Hamburg
- VR2 – Gebäude 05 OG 03 - HBK Braunschweig
- Multiple Exposure – Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig
2019
- default – with Jonas Meyburg, Café Lüttes, Braunschweig
- Losing Touch? – groupshow, Mönchehaus, Goslar
2017
- DER BARSCH – Pop-up intervention, Lee Sushi, Braunschweig
