About nica junker

The focus of my artistic work is on photography and time based media, as well as curating participatory projects with local communities. I also work as a researcher in the field of artistic research and as a lecturer in photography and film at universities and colleges. As an artistic director/curator, I collaborate with institutions primarily on participatory projects that are located at the intersection of culture, science, and politics, cultural education, and social work. 
Since my graduation as a director for film and television in 2005 at the Filmuniversität Konrad Wolf Potsdam-Babelsberg and as a photographer from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design London in 2008 I have collaborated as an artist with institutions worldwide. My work is published internationally. I won a couple of awards, grants and artist-in-residencies over the last years. 
In 2019, I also finished my PhD studies in artistic research at the Kunstuniversität Linz in Austria. At the moment I work as a Postdoc-researcher within the EU-Horizon funded project #democracyinaction (https://www.democracyinaction.eu/) researching about community building and grassroot co-creation in virtual reality.