Lina von Jaruntowski (she/her) is a designer and researcher based in Hamburg and Eindhoven. She is a member of the feminist collectives POSSY from Hamburg and Radio Echo in The Hague. As a member of POSSY, she has been an important part of Hamburg’s queer-feminist club culture and created a platform of support for diverse FLINTA* artists since 2017.
Trained as a graphic designer and design researcher, Lina’s practice follows her strong interest in forms of feminist storytelling, collectivity, and experimental forms of publishing.
Her practice contains graphic design, publications, workshops, and textual and performative works to question human-nature relations and hetero-patriarchal power structures. She studied integrated design at the University of the Arts Bremen and Artistic Research at the Design Academy Eindhoven. She holds teaching positions at the Academy of Fashion and Design Hamburg and the University of Arts Bremen. Currently, Lina is researching embodied, linguistic, textual, and technological ecologies and infrastructures around weather forecasts.
Education
2011 — 2014
Apprenticeship: Media designer Digital and Print, Groothuis, Lohfert, Consorten, Hamburg
Degree: Media designer Digital and Print
2015 — 2019
Bachelor: Integrated Design, University of Arts Bremen,
Degree: Bachelor of Arts
2020
Master: Studio Culture and Identity,
Integrated Design, University of Arts Bremen
2020 — 2022
Master: The Critical Inquiry Lab, Design Academy Eindhoven,
Degree: Master of Arts in Fine Arts and Design
Experience
2011 — 2014
Apprenticeship: Media designer Digital and Print, Groothuis, Lohfert, Consorten, Hamburg
2015 — 2020
Work student: LUV Interior (Interior design), Hamburg
2017 — 2020
Student assistant and tutorials for Prof. Andrea Rauschenbusch, University of Arts Bremen
2017 —
Cultural practitioner and organiser/curator of various events in the Hamburg cultural scene with POSSY Collective
2018 —
Freelance graphic designer, Clients, among others: Possy Collective,
ŒUVRE Collective, Headshell Collective, District school Wilhelmsburg Hamburg, Christiane Peschek, Best Boy Electric,
Klub der Künste Deichtorhallen, Hallo: Radio Hamburg, University of Arts Bremen, Mozarteum Salzburg, FeminizidMap.org, Mensch Meier Club Berlin
03/2018 — 09/2018
Internship (graphic design) at Bureau Mario Lombardo, Berlin
Responsible for the following clients, among others: Atelier Oblique, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Film Records, Opern Dorf Afrika,
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Vertigo Records
2019 — 2020
Freelance work (graphic design) for Bureau Mario Lombardo,
Client: Hatje Cantz, Shilpa Gupta
2020 — 2021
Member of Lecture Committee Design Academy Eindhoven
10/2022
Teaching at the Integrated Design Master department, WORKSHOP: Practice Togetherness — Explorations of collective (design) practices (tools included),
University of Arts Bremen
04/2023 —
Teaching at University of Arts Bremen
Department: Integrated design (BA), Digital Media (BA)
Projects/Events/Curation (selection)
2017 —
Co-founder of the feminist collective POSSY,
Hamburg
05/2018
Planning, organisation:
POSSY SOMMERFEST Queer music and art festival, with POSSY,
Schaltzentrale, Hamburg
11/2018
Planning, organisation:
POSSY x Further* Festival
Queer night club event, Turmzimmer, Hamburg
2018 —
Founder of the feminist magazine AT:P.M,
with Possy, Hamburg
08/2019
Planning, organisation:
POSSY x KAMPNAGEL Summer festival
Queer night club event, with POSSY,
Kampnagel, Hamburg
10/2019
Collective curation:
Group exhibition SHIFT,
Frappant Galerie, Hamburg
11/2020 —04/2022
Curation online lectures w/
Lecture Committee Design Academy Eindhoven
Speaker among others:
Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian, Depatriarchise Design x Futuress,
Metahaven, Goda Palekaitė, Dr. Priya Swamy, Simon Njami
04/2021
Curation w/ the master program Critical Inquiry Lab: Online program Beyond Papanek for the exhibition Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design, Design Museum Den Bosch
04/2021
Initiator and co-founder:
Conversation series Discomfort Dialogues,
Design Academy Eindhoven
06/2021
Collective curation and publication concept: Windly Forces
Group exhibition of the master program
Critical Inquiry Lab, Design Academy Eindhoven
07/2022
Radio documentation:
Hackers + Designers Summer School with Radio Echo, Amsterdam
01/2023 – 05/2023
Collective workshop series/
publication project: sweaty dwellings with POSSY x OUSA x
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Writings
02/2019
AT:P.M Magazine
“Hallo, mein Name ist Bene”
Interview w/ Benedict Gowland,
Hamburg
03/2021
how? memory is, becoming with, bodies,
BPHC — Between Possible Histories
and Contingent Futures (online publication)
06/2022
Notes on Reading Otherwise
(Or Words Crack Open Deviously, Like Clouds) in PERPETUAL STEW — A Collection of Texts from The Critical Inquiry Lab, Eindhoven
Exhibitions
02/2020
Need for speed
(Nominee University Award)
University days 2020,
University of Arts Bremen
07/2020
Need for speed
Annual exhibition (online),
University of Arts Bremen
12/2020
ErfindenErinnernExportieren
Group exhibition:
ARE YOU OK? ARE WE OK?
Galerie Mitte, Bremen
10/2021
Discomfort Dialogues,
Dutch Design Week 2021,
Eindhoven
10/2022
Notes on Reading
Otherwise (Or Words Crack Open Deviously, Like Clouds),
Dutch Design Week 2022,
Eindhoven
Scholarships
2019 — 2022
Scholarship Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2023
Exposé-Scholarship Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
Mixed Media, writings, audio play performance, ongoing research project
Video still
Audio, video, fermentation, mixed media installation in collaboration with Anaelle Chaigne and Jonė Miškinytė