Barbara Wimmer-Bulin started working as a research assistant at DIMAS under Prof Steigemann on 1 April 2024.
She studied Ethnology under Prof Hauschild and Sociology under Prof Gildemeister at the University of Tübingen. Since then, she has combined social and cultural anthropological perspectives and methods with artistic research and works as an independent artistic researcher. In this context, she has dedicated herself to working on various projects that deal with socially relevant and ecological issues. Her works have been exhibited internationally and shortlisted in various open calls. She is particularly interested in making knowledge accessible in creative formats. To this end, she uses various outreach formats.
Her project on the implementation of intensive agriculture in a nature reserve in Portugal is of particular importance and she has been pursuing it since the end of her studies. To date, Barbara Wimmer-Bulin has worked on the topic both photographically and in essay form. With her appointment at DIMAS, she is now researching it as part of her dissertation with the working title "Competing approaches to landscape. From Arcadia to Agricultural Landscape? Conflicts over resources in the natural apron area in Portugal. An ethnographic case study".
Her research focuses on political ecology, resource conflicts and landscape. In addition, she is dedicated to questions of homeland, gender, coexistence, dwelling and qualitative research methods.
In her university teaching, she combines alternative teaching formats in the form of artistic research and project seminars with classical knowledge transfer.
Since 2024, in addition to her research activities, she has also been employed part-time as a curator for special exhibitions at the Kelheim Archaeological Museum and works in museum education.
CV
Academic Positions
| April 2024 | Research Assistant to Prof Steigemann at the DIMAS I Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies, University of Regensburg |
| April 2022 until September 2023 | Lecturer at the Professorship of Media Studies at the Institute of Information and Media, Language and Culture, University of Regensburg |
| June 2021 until March 2022 | Research Assistant at the Professorship of Media Studies, Institute of Information and Media, Language and Culture, University of Regensburg |
Academic Education
| Since 2024 | Doctoral Studies at DIMAS with Prof Steigemann, University of Regensburg |
| 2002- 2009 | Studied Ethnology and Sociology at the University of Tübingen, M.A. |
Research
Research Interests
- Doing Landscape and Visual Governance
- Political ecologies
- Photography and visual anthropology
- Gender
Ongoing research projects
PhD project "Doing Landscape while exploring Ressources: An Ethnographic Fieldwork on the Visual Governance of a Natural Park in Portugal" (working title)
Awards and honours
- Shortlist Lagois Photo Prize, Munich 2019
- Shortlist "Phenomena...sobre alteracoes climáticas", ?vora, Portugal 2019
- Shortlist Siena Creative Award 2021
- 3. Prize art competition "Notruf 1215", Regensburg 2021
- Honourable Mention EPEX Photoaward, Spain 2023
Publications
Editorships
Editor of the catalogue "Home Sweet Home. Wo bist Du Zuhause?" as part of the student exhibition 2022, University of Regensburg
Contributions to anthologies
“Wei?t du, woher die Himbeeren kommen? Ein aturpark in Schwierigkeiten” ("Do you know where the raspberries come from? A nature park in trouble") (2024). In: Lust, Macht, Wahn – aus dem prallen Leben des Bürgers. Anthologie. P?nK Verlag, Regensburg, Regensburg
Essays
?Isst du auch Erdbeeren im Winter? (Do you also eat strawberries in winter?)" In: Jadú Online Magazine of the Goethe Institute Prague, CZ January 2017 (http://www.goethe.de/ins/cz/prj/ug/leb/de16105017.htm)
?Wo die Blaubeeren wachsen.(Where the blueberries grow.)" Photo essay and accompanying article. In: Photoklassik 2017, Magazin für analoge Fotografie
"S?o Teotónio na drome - Geschichten zwischen Lokalit?t und Globalisierung." Art newspaper for the exhibition at the Hopfenmuseum (Hop Museum). Edited by E. Kastner 2019.
"Ein Pl?doyer für die Akzeptanz der Unordnung. (A plea for the acceptance of disorder.)" Introductory essay of the accompanying brochure for the exhibition "Nachtschw?rmer". Regensburg 2019.
"HeimatPlus" exhibition catalogue. Regensburg 2020
"In den Zwischenr?umen ruht die Hoffnung. (Hope rests in the spaces in between.)" Exhibition catalogue. Regensburg 2022
?Mensch:Ort:Heimat“. 2023, Artistic Research Zine
Internet pages
"Don't put new wine into old skin". Photo essay about mother roles during the corona pandemic. Website: https://barbara-wimmer-t.jimdosite.com (external link, opens in a new window)
"Schaufenster in meinem Kopf (Shop window in my head)" project page: https://schaufensterfotografie.wordpress.com (external link, opens in a new window)
Teaching and science communication
Teaching
- Summer semester 2023, Seminar: Media and protest movements. On the redefinition of public spheres and the role of images'
- WS 2024, project seminar: Of fair maidens, capricious Donaunixes, sugary-sweet cat videos and glittering pink luxury worlds - narratives and images of women in media representations. An exhibition project in cooperation with p?nK Verlag (funded as part of the City of Regensburg's annual cultural programme)
- WS 2022, Seminar: Ethnography? Between sensory perceptions and media analysis.
- Summer semester 2022, project seminar: Images of a Landscape: Between Imagination, Romanticisation and Commercialisation. Microstudies on the relationship between man and nature.
- WS 2021, Project seminar: What can photography do? Photographic exploration of home, belonging and the self.
Projects and Networking
Committee work and academic functions
Passive member of KunstvereinGRAZ, Regensburg, until 2023
Member of the Kunst und Gewerbeverein, Regensburg, until 2023
Founding member of the "Internationales Festival Fotografischer Bilder (International Festival of Photographic Images)" association, Regensburg
Lectures and conferences
- June 2024: Jury member for the art competition and exhibition "Dream on. A circular society", Regensburg Department of Culture
- November 2023: Lecture on my exhibition "Stories Between Localisation and Globalisation" at the conference "Doing Area Studies", University of Regensburg
- November 2023: Participation in the panel discussion on "Image in Education"
- March 2023: Jury member of the "Youth Photo Prize Upper Palatinate" of the media counselling service district Upper Palatinate
- November 2022: Lecture "Landscape photography" in the teaching seminar of Dr Silke R?ssler, Chair of Media Studies at the University of Regensburg
- September 2022: Lecture at the annual conference of the Portuguese Society for Culture and Social Anthropology, ?vora, Portugal
- July 2019: Moderation of the panel discussion with Dr Segerer and Dr Wunderer at the Kulturmontag in Degginger/City of Regensburg on the topic of species extinction
- May 2019: International symposium for ethnology at the University of Cologne "Rurality and Future making" . Lecture in the panel alternative ethnographies: "Documented stories between localisation and globalisation"
Exhibitions (selection)
- January 2025 | Künzing: "VerGang", solo exhibition at the Archaeological Museum Künzing
- September 2024 | Regensburg: Exhibition as part of the p?nK festival (p?nK Verlag), M26
- September 2024 | Beratzhausen: Group exhibition "Arcadian Landscapes"
- July 2024 | Regensburg: Exhibition curation and participation "Sweet Heroes Strong Girls", together with students and Tina Schmid, cultural space Vor der Grieb, funded by the Regensburg Cultural Office, annual theme
- December 2023 | Regensburg: GRAZIFIKATION, exhibition participation at KunstvereinGRAZ in the M26 gallery
- November 2023 | Regensburg: Exhibition as part of the "Doing Area Studies" conference at the University of Regensburg
- June 2022 | Regensburg: Project management and lecturer of the outdoor exhibition of student projects "Wastescape(s)" as part of the Regensburg Sustainability Week 2022
- May 2022 | Regensburg: Curated exhibition "Hope rests in the spaces in between" together with my mother Tabea Wimmer, Sigismund Chapel
- March 2022 | Regensburg: Curated solo exhibition "Mensch Ort Heimat?", Stadelgalerie, Künstlerhaus Andreasstadl, sponsored by the Regensburg Cultural Office, annual theme
- February 2022 | Regensburg: Project management and lecturer of the student exhibition "Home Sweet Home. Where are you at home?", W1, sponsored by Sparkasse R.
- November 2021 | Regensburg: "Schaufenster im Schaufenster", curation and realisation, concept exhibition at M26, funded by "Neustart Kultur", with Katharina Tenberge-Holzer
- October 2021 | Regensburg: "95th Annual Exhibition 2021 of Upper Palatinate and Lower Bavarian Artists and Craftspeople" at the Kunst- und Gewerbeverein
- October 2021 | Coímbra: 2nd group exhibition of the competition "Ph?nomena...sobre altera??es climáticas"
- October 2021 | Rome / I: Group exhibition as part of an international "Open Call" of the Loosenart Gallery
- April 2021 | Regensburg: "Kunst im Impfzentrum" together with Barbara Gaukler and Renate Christin
- October 2020 | Regensburg: Group exhibition "Stand-by" at Haidplatz, financed by the Regensburg Cultural Office
- October 2020 | Regensburg: Solo exhibition "HeimatPlus", intervention in the former Santander Bank, funded by the Regensburg Department of Culture, annual theme
- December 2019 | ?vora / PT: Group exhibition, shortlist competition of the Universidade de ?vora and the Alentejo region "Phenomena...sobre altera??es climáticas"
- August 2019 | Regensburg: Curation, organisation and implementation of "Nachtschw?rmer", S?ulenhalle in the Thon-Dittmer-Palais, together with Katharina Tenberge-Holzer and Jasmin Lehmer, funded by the Regensburg Cultural Office, annual theme
- July 2019 | Regensburg: Degginger, solo exhibition "tod geglaubt : lebenswege", Smallest Gallery
- May 2019 | University of Cologne: Exhibition as part of the international conference "Rurality and Future Making" (keynoted)
- March 2019 | Munich: Group exhibition, shortlist "Lagois Photo Competition"
- February 2019 | Wolnzach: Solo exhibition "S?o Teotónio n? drome", Hop Museum
- September 2018 | Regensburg: Solo exhibition "S?o Teotónio n? drome", Sigismund Chapel
- April 2014 | Prague / CZ: Prague Photo Festival at the Kafka House
- April 2013 | Prague / CZ: Prague Photo Festival at the Kafka House
Cooperation/ Projects
2024-2025 Visiting Fellow at CRIA - Centre for Research in Anthropology, Portugal
2024-2025 Evaluation project in cooperation with the Laboratory of Creative Minds (Kreativwirtschaft Regensburg): Reallabore in Obermünsterstra?e, Regensburg
2024 Associated with the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies