is a creative mind, a cultural worker and researcher with a focus on contemporary art, design, inclusion, things and digital culture.
Currently she is mainly working for studio speciale – an inclusive art and design studio.
SELECTED PROJECTS
Ruhr-University Bochum, Ph.D. still writing...
PKRK, new website, 2026
The Artful Object, PR consulting, 2026
DIY MOBILE UNICORN with studio speciale, 2025
Unicorn Mobile, workshop with studio speciale, KUNSTLABOR 2, Munich, 2025
LAMPENLADEN 2.0 with studio speciale, Magistrale Kunsthalle, 2025
studio speciale, inclusive design and art studio, since 2025
Palina Ringe, Schloss Dornburg, 2024 // communications
PKRK, 2021-2025 // project websites
Lena Grewenig, 2024 // website and online shop with studio farace
Maternity Leave, 2023-2024 // chill and recover
documenta fifteen, 2021-2022 // communications
Anna Stiede, 2022 // website with studio farace
Berlin Art Link, 2021 // article
TreuhandTechno, 2021 // website with studio farace
Constantin Übersetzungen, 2020 // website with studio farace
sculpture network, Biennale Venice, 2019 // article
Kepler 452b, Berlin 2017–2019 // art event
Dance of Urgency, FREI_RAUM Q21, MuseumsQuartier, 2019 // communications
Under Pressure, FREI_RAUM Q 21, Vienna, 2018 // PR
Faceless. Re-inventing Privacy Through Subversive Media Strategies, 2018 // PR
The mole keeps on digging, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, 2017 // PR
KEEP IT REAL, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, 2017 // PR
Limits of Knowing / Immersion, Berliner Festspiele, 2017 // PR
48 hours Neukölln / segeband.pr, 2017 // PR
Haegue Yang. Silo of Silence – Clicked Core, KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst / segeband.pr, 2017 // PR
Asta Gröting. Berlin Fassaden, KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst / segeband.pr, 2017 // PR
Katrin Wegemann, Sammlung des Flüchtigen, 2017 // PR
Bjørn Melhus, 2015–2017
// studio assistant
9th Berlin Biennale for contemporary art. The Present in Drag, 2016 // PR
Das Museum eine Schule der Dinge – our homestories, Werkbundarchive – Museum of Things, 2016 // assistant cultural education
EPHEMERA. Advertising Graphics from the Collection of Documents of Everyday Culture, 2015 // PR
CUCULA. Refugees Company for Crafts and Design, Werkbundarchive – Museum of Things, 2015 // PR
STANDBY. On Living with Machines, Werkbundarchive – Museum of Things, Berlin, 2014 // PR
Made in Germany. Politics through Things. The German Werkbund in 1914, Werkbundarchive – Museum of Things, 2014
// PR
Ince belli / Slim Waist, Werkbundarchive – Museum of Things, 2014
// PR
Transformations. Concepts of Re-using Things, Werkbundarchive – Museum of Things, 2014
// PR
3x Collection. Design-Historical, Culturally Significant, Aesthetic, Werkbundarchive – Museum of Things, 2013
// PR
On Time. Timethings from the collections of the Werkbund Archiv – Museum der Dinge, 2013
// PR
The Interior of Devices, Werkbundarchive – Museum of Things, 2012/2013
// PR
Richard Mosse. Infra, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2012 // PR
Linn Pedersen. Floor Arrangements, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2012
// PR
Young & Giroux, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2012
// PR
Ylva Westerlund. Evolutionary throwback, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2012 // PR
Thomas Gust / Kasia Fudakowski, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2012
// PR
Zuspiel: Tobias Zielony, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2012 // PR
transmediale 2k+12 in/compatible, 2012 // PR
Francesco Clemente. Palimpsest, Schirn Kunsthalle, 2011
// PR
SECRET SOCIETIES. TO KNOW, TO DARE, TO WILL, TO KEEP SILENCE, Schirn Kunsthalle, 2011
// PR
PLAYING THE CITY 3, Schirn Kunsthalle, 2011
// PR
Gia Herion is writing a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg (Ruhr-University Bochum) and Prof. Dr. Angela Koch (University of
Art and Design Linz).
SEX AFTER DEATH.
Facing sexual violence in the mirror of contemporary art and discourse (working title)
Since antiquity, different narratives about sexual violence can be found through the history of images and art, which reflect the respective discourses of their time.
Only with the emergence of feminist positions in the 1970s did the male-dominated perspective on sexual violence change. In their goal of raising public awareness, the works of feminist artists can be classified as forerunners of the #metoo movement.
In contrast to the previous discourses, the research project aims to capture contemporary artistic positions that bring to light various constellations of actors and contexts of meaning of sexual violence. Artists who try to decipher the complexity of the structures.
To this end, contemporary artistic positions are to be related to historical works in order to investigate which innovations, breaks and gaps the current discourse on sexual violence has and which different resistance strategies artists develop to decipher the polymorphic structures of violence.
Academic education
Gia Herion studied Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt University of Berlin. For her master's thesis “Wenn die Daten Trauer tragen. Die Tode von Alan Kurdi (2017)” (When Data Mourns: The Deaths of Alan Kurdi), she examined private and collective mourning in online memes and viral images over the death of Alan Kurdi. It was completed under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Iris Därmann and Dr. Holger Brohm at Humboldt University of Berlin.
Unfortunately, Iris Därmann's latest publications have not yet been translated. (e.g. Undienlichkeit. Gewaltgeschichte und politische Philosophie (2020), Widerstände: Gewaltenteilung in statu nascendi (2021), Aus der Nacht heraus. Kinderperspektiven (2025), all three Matthes & Seitz, Berlin)
They update and deepen also some important thoughts of Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism and help to better understand the zeitgeist and origins of colonial and genocidal violence and terror. They also discuss its philosophical justifications and forms of resistance.
Gia Herion’s masterthesis was cited in Benkel, T. and Meitzler, M. (eds.) (2023). Jahrbuch für Tod und Gesellschaft / Annual Review of Death and Society, Vol. 2/2023. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa.The findings were presented, among other places, in a lecture at “FLEEING IMAGES: AFFECT // REPRESENTATION” – A trans- and interdisciplinary event organised by Jacobus Bracker, Ann-Kathrin Hubrich and Stefanie Johns, 1–3 December 2016.
Her essay, “Belanglose Bilder – Vom Viral zum Internet-Mem” (Trivial images – From a viral to an internet meme) was published in “Originalität und Viralität von (Internet-)Memes” (Originality and Virality of (Internet-) Memes), 2018. It can be considered as one of the first interdisciplinary publications about online memes and was organised by Georg Fischer and Lorenz Grünewald-Schukalla for a special edition of kommunikation@gesellschaft.
Gia Herion has a bachelor's degree in Communication and Cultural Management from Zeppelin University. Her bachelor thesis, “Das Studio Eliasson als Trompe l' Œil?' (2010)” (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg; second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Maren Lehmann), received the Best Bachelor's Thesis Award in 2010 at Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen.
Her special interest are images. She is proud that she got a perfect score on her ethics AP exam. Her favorite game as a child was Memory.
Sometimes a blink of an eye (ein Augenblick) says more than words can. Or something else. It's something you cannot express with words. Something that may remain forever unspoken.
This freestyle page is currently under open construction.
Trigger Warning for images of violence.
A camera can be a weapon and it can be a healer.
Most images are by Gia Herion.
If not, mentioned in captions or let me know.


digital cloud drawings for children and adults
Visual reflections on digital image culture in times of AI generated images, memes, manipulated imagery, artworks, images of artworks and copyrights. Remixes of online images from Social Media profiles and digital images of artworks, 2016–2018.
Images: A selection of visual reflections on the sexual exploitation of children offline, in Live-Streamings, in Social Media and in the Dark Net. With filter transformed images remixed with own and public thoughts, questions and comments from Social Media users and view numbers of images.
How can we raise awareness to better protect children? 2022/2025











