Jeanne Astrup-Chauvaux

Jeanne Astrup-Chauvaux (she/her) is a human being living in Berlin and working at the intersection of arts and architecture. Jeanne graduated from the University of the Arts Berlin (2022), and her artistic practice is diverse and versatile: through film, storytelling, speculation, and performance, she addresses pressing societal and ecological issues. She currently works as a teaching assistant and PhD candidate at the Center for Spatial Cosmology at HCU Hamburg, where she investigates the transformation of water infrastructures along the Rhône River in France. 

Jeanne works in different constellations and is part of 4 different collectives. Since 2018, she has been an initiating member of Floating University Berlin, where she works as a space maker, curator, artist, and researcher for different programs. In 2019, she co-initiated spätispäti, a collective questioning of institutional learning structures, space production, consumerism, and relations of trust and power through collective performative action. In 2019, she co-initiated Urban Fragment Observatory (ufo ufo), a spatial research collective using films to illustrate ways to escape the monotony of our built surroundings. She is also a founding member of Collectif Trouble, a performance collective between Berlin and Marseille.