Juliane Maria Hoffmann (* 1980 in Zeulenroda) lives and works as a freelance artist, graphic designer and illustrator in Leipzig. She completed her training at the Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle in the fields of fashion design and image, space, object, glass. After this she completed her studies in the visual arts with distinction. As a freelance artist, she negotiates the themes of her art in interdisciplinary works that range in media from drawings, embroidery, engravings and sculptures to room-filling installations based on concepts of community, work, art, knowledge, intuition, religion, communication and education.

During her fellowship in Schöppingen Juliane Maria Hoffmann dealt with the interplay of socially given structures and individual scope for action. She was interested in the symbolism attached to self-conceived signs and how intuitive or socially predetermined individual perception really is. Against this background, an exhibition was created in Schöppingen together with the artist Ashley Middelton and the mural “Thought Complexes” in the communal kitchen of the Künstlerdorf. Juliane’s sketch “Meditation on artistic work” was published as an edition of the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation and encourages people to reflect deadlocked patterns of thought and action, to think fluidly about social structures and to engage in mutual exchange.