Prof. Dr. Eva Weinmayr

Eva is currently engaged in research and teaching at the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM), where she contributes to the Master’s program Transversal Design and the Bachelor’s program Process Design. In 2024, she taught in the PhD program Make/Sense and designed and led a professional development course on editorial practices from a critical diversity perspective.

Her artistic research centres on Critical Access in collective knowledge practice with specific focus on critical publishing, e.g. editorial, design and media practices. Here, she collaborates with Lucie Kolb on the current research project “Teaching the Radical Catalogue – a Syllabus” on naming and cataloguing practices in libraries of the Global North (part of the SNSF project Sharing Knowledge in the Arts – the Swiss Thing), and co-leads with Femke Snelting the research project “Ecologies of Dissemination: Decolonial Knowledge Practice, Feminist Methodology, and Open Access”, a collaboration between HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg; the Centre for Postdigital Culture, Coventry University; and Constant, Association for Art and Media, Brussels. She is part of the Care Team at the Critical Media Lab and serves, together with Laura Pregger, Maria Sabato, Martina Siegwolf and Jörg Wiesel as University Representative for Diversity at HGK Basel.

Dr Eva Weinmayr researches, teaches, designs, publishes and collaborates at the intersection of art, pedagogy, and institutional analysis. Her artistic research focuses on decolonial and feminist-intersectional approaches to publishing and collective knowledge practices. She develops experimental, practice-based research methods and co-initiated and led the EU-funded program Teaching to Transgress Toolbox (2019–2022), which, inspired by the U.S. activist, educator, and theorist bell hooks, explored feminist and anti-racist approaches in art and education. In her artistic PhD Noun to Verb (HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, 2020), developed and published on a MediaWiki, Eva Weinmayr explores publishing practices with focus on access, power asymmetries, the recognition of diverse (collective) forms of knowledge, collective and entangled authorship, a process-oriented approach to publication and practices of exchange. Together with Femke Snelting, she pursues these questions in the project Ecologies of Dissemination: Decolonial Knowledge Practice, Feminist Methodology, Open Access (2022–present, Swedish Research Council), developing intersectional strategies for knowledge sharing and reuse.

She is an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University, and served as Interim Professor for Art Education at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in 2022, where she initiated kritilab, an open-source platform for sharing teaching resources with a critical diversity lens. She has taught at international art schools such as Central Saint Martins, UAL, Goldsmiths London, the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, OCAD University Toronto, and the Estonian Academy of Arts Tallinn. In addition, she has collaborated with both internationally renowned institutions and self-organised collectives, including the exhibition “Utopia of Access”, Pavilion for Artistic Research at the 57th Biennale di Venezia, the National Art Gallery Warsaw, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Whitechapel Gallery, The Showroom London, and SALT Istanbul. Her publications appeared with presses such as MIT Press, Sternberg Press, Hatje Cantz.