At minus10 degree Skulpturverein called for artists who would pull or push artwork across the snowy runway south at Tempelhof Airport. Runway South photography with PART 230902, at Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, 2026

J U M P , dancer: Kim and Sven, Tanz im Park, Streetdance, Berlin, RIAS, Berlin, 2025
I got to know Kim and Sven of „Tanz im Park, streetdance“, Berlin in October 2025. They are holding dance classes in a nearby park regardless of the weather condition. And they always dance barefoot. I loved their positive spirit, and we started a temporary cooperation with several Performative Interventions at RIAS, Berlin
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site-specific Performative Intervention with PART 220611, size variable, acrylic, lacktex oilcloth, PE film, canvas, 2025, Open Studio Jam by Sasha Waltz & Guests at Radialsystem, Berlin, dancer: Francisco Martinez

Performative Intervention and exhibition
Activation of PARTs 240102, 240202, all: size variable, acrylic, PE Film, Lacktex Oilcloth, canvas, dancer photo: Jenny Smith, dancers film: Nicole Trait, Jenny Smith, composition Simon Hughes, Performative Intervention and exhibition, G.R.I.T. , Freebirds Studio und Drawing Center, Dundee, Scotland, 2024
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size variable, acrylic, lacktex oilcloth, canvas, PE film, steel rods, installation view Groundhoppers at PlatformA, Middlesbrough in cooperation with Glue, Berlin, 2025

While riding two full circles on the Berlin Ringbahn I approached travelers asking them to wear PARTs 241202 and 220102. The project was initiated by SkulpturVerein, Berlin.
R I N G B A H N , performance photography with PARTs 240802, 240102, both size variable, acrylic, lacktex oilcloth,PE film, canvas, 2024, SkulpturVerein at S-Bahn, Berlin, 2025

Performative Intervention with PARTs 241201-4, all size variable, acrylic, lacktex oilcloth,PE film, canvas, 2024, dancer: Hannah Frances Whelan, Unai Lopez de Armentia.
During my three months residency at the Interdisciplinary Institute for New Technologies Hibridalab in autumn 2024 I created new PARTs based on computer generated and overpainted image material. Dancers and musicians from the local theatre and dance company Baratza in Vitoria Gasteiz in the Basque Country, Spain, developed a Performative Intervention on hermit crabs that protect their soft parts in foreign shells.
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performance photography, Performative Intervention with PART 230602 size variable, acrylic, lacktex oilcloth, PE film, canvas, 2022, dancer Asta D. at Schwart‘sche Villa, Berlin Steglitz, 2025.
Originally meeting at a performance by a colleague Asta and I met again shortly after for some Performative Interventions with PARTs 220203 and 230602 at Schwartz‘sche Villa, Berlin. Asta D. is a Danish performer and sound artist.

size variable, acrylic, Lacktex Oilcloth, PE Folie, canvas, 2024, Cáceres, ES
Ecos Cinéticos was a solo exhibition at the Kernel Gallery in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. For the opening dancer Lara Martoran activated PARTs 241001, 241002 and 241003h. She developed a site-specific performative intervention that referred to ‘Leonida’, a local newspaper vendor who not only sold newspapers but was also the last person to read the news aloud in public.
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site-specific Performative Intervention with PARTs 241001, 241002, 241003h, all size variable, acrylic, lacktex oilcloth, PE film, canvas, 2024, Cáceres, Spain, dancer: Lara Martoran
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Cooperation with collectif toporama Marine Allibert and Mélina Hue at die.residenz, Berlin on the topic of „DIE TRAGENDE MUTTER“ (the carrying mother). A collective brainstorming session on Mental Load as part of „Frauenmärz“ by the district Tempelhof-Schöneberg Berlin and of Woman Art Open by „fair share!“
D I E T R A G E N D E M U T T E R performance photography with PARTs 24080, size variable, acrylic, lacktex oilcloth, PE film, canvas, 2024, die.residenz, Berlin, 2025

Activation of PARTs 240102, 240202 , all: variable size, acrylic, PE film, Lacktex oil cloth, canvas, dancer Nicole Trait, Jenny Smith, composition Simon Hughes, performative intervention and exhibition, exhibition view G.R.I.T. , Drawing Center, Dundee, Scotland, 2024
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PARTs, based on site-specific paintings, were handed over to artists Deli Sánchez, Pablo Muñoz (dance), Efraín Callejo (piano) and Fernando Sánchez (trombone / composition). Our cooperation on location resulted in the performative intervention and installation Clothing In - COMMUTABLE at the Vostell Museum, Malpartida (ES).

Commutable, PARTs, size variable; Performance Photos; 150804, 120 x 120 cm, acrylic, PE film, canvas, 2015, installation view Clothing In - Commutable, Museo Vostell Malpartida, Cáceres, Spain, 2024
PARTs, based on site-specific paintings, were handed over to artists Deli Sánchez, Pablo Muñoz (dance), Efraín Callejo (piano) and Fernando Sánchez (trombone / composition).
Our cooperation on location resulted in the performative intervention and installation Clothing In - COMMUTABLE at the Vostell Museum, Malpartida (ES).
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L'EAUZARD, a performative intervention and installation was created in collaboration with a group of residents from Coaraze (F). In advance local musicians had composed an experimental piece of music on the theme of the village´s landmarks: the lizard and the water. The development of paintings and corresponding painting objects (PARTs) in the studio took place simultaneously. On site, the eleven participants aged between 28 and 81 spent several days exploring their movement experience with the PARTs in workshops. From the exchange of subjective impressions when „wearing this second skin“, a spatial situation evolved, accompanied by temporary „living sculptures“ and eventually merging to a danced choreography. Installationview Château de la Gardiole, Coaraze, Frankreich, 2023

L’EAUZARD, a performative intervention and installation was created in collaboration with a group of residents from Coaraze (F). In advance local musicians had composed an experimental piece of music on the theme of the village´s landmarks: the lizard and the water. The development of paintings and corresponding painting objects, so-called parts, in the studio took place simultaneously. On site, the eleven participants aged between 28 and 81 spent several days exploring their movement experience with the parts in workshops. From the exchange of subjective impressions when „wearing this second skin“, a spatial situation evolved, accompanied by temporary „living sculptures“ and eventually merging to a danced choreography.L'EAUZARD was performed in an installation at Château de la Gardiole, Coaraze (France).
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Performance photos and an installation were created in the context of the group exhibition Hybrid Boost Komplex in a former drugstore in Gesundbrunnen Centre, Berlin-Wedding. Photo: Eric Tschernow

In 2023 an ongoing collaboration started with the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in Ireland. During two intensive weeks dancers and choreographers of the MA contemporary dance created a performative intervention in the Foyer of the BERNAL, a Scientific Research Centre at the University of Limerick. The piece was based on their experience of improvising with the PARTs I had developed for this occasion.
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221002, 162 x 53 x 198 cm, 221003, 78 x 81 x 33 cm, 220611, 189 x 62 x 12 cm, 220612, 132 x 64 x 29 cm, 220613, 162 x 65 x 39 cm, 221001, 131 x 6 5 x 26 cm, all: acrylic, canvas, lacktex oil cloth, PP, additionally: wood, heavy duty swivel caster wheel, welding rods. 220604, 122cm x 244cm x 5cm, acrylic, lacktex oil cloth.

In her review on On GOING (PlatformA Gallery, Middlesbrough, 2022) Anika Reineke writes: "Stretcher frames and wheels, movement and liminality, dance and boilersuits: in ON GOING, materials and techniques from all stages of Zimmer´s career are merging. Like a remix, the works inscribe themselves into each other, develop each other further and open up trains of thought: how does movement coming from within us influence the full-body suit made out of skin, fabric, space and environment that surrounds us every day?" Photo: Rachel Deakin

After regular training, the ability to perceive stimuli and reactions of the muscles, tendons, and joints evolves and is incorporated into notations. Two to three sheets are created every day, which are analysed, summarized, and translated at regular intervals. A new alphabet, generated from the pictorial vocabulary of abstract signs, is transferred to different material functioning as image carrier.

Concept: Michaela Zimmer & Miguel Altunaga
Choreography: Miguel Altunaga
Installation and Paintings: Michaela Zimmer
Performed by: Liam Francis, Jacob O’Connell and Stephen Quildan
Music: David Preston
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Perpetual Movement marked the 90th anniversary Rambert, the British National Contemporary Dance Organisation. Visual notations of physical movement and their transmission into works of art had become the key issue of a three-year interdisciplinary research project with Rambert. I deliberately focused on the aspect of body resonance and the question on how movement can be recorded in ways not related to numerical systems. Exhibitions were conceived in such a way that they simultaneously offered space for performances, while subsequently existing as an independent exhibition without performers.

Concept: Michaela Zimmer & Miguel Altunaga
Choreography: Miguel Altunaga
Installation and Paintings: Michaela Zimmer
Performed by: Liam Francis, Jacob O’Connell and Stephen Quildan
Music: David Preston
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