Joannie Baumgärtners multidisciplinary, research-based practice combines performance with installation, media-based processes, theoretical writing and poetry. Baumgärtners approach to spatial or temporal concerns and their use of movement or other forms of expression relies on disorientation as a method and the activation of hidden transversal connections that flow through disciplines, subject matters and historic events. Baumgärtner holds an MA from the Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem. They also studied sculpting, scenography, art theory and education at AdBK Nuremberg and HfG Karlsruhe. Since 2012 they have performed and exhibited mostly within Germany and the EU, while their writing has been published in collective publications and artists monographs.