Domenica Ewald
Works
fluid heart (lingua materna)
2026
fluid heart (lingua materna) is a performance inquiry emerging from somatic writing practices and multilingual experience.
It is a piece about the language of the heart, and about allowing this language to not necessarily make sense rationally.
Through layering touch, language, material interaction and felt movement, the work explores how embodied knowledge surfaces before verbal articulation.
inside/insight
Since 2022
Created during my recovery from long COVID, this ongoing watercolour series emerged when dancing was no longer possible. Using closed-eye drawing and somatic practice, the watercolours became another way of listening to and expressing the body. The practice continues to evolve, remaining a bridge between sensation and language, the non-verbal and the spoken, allowing what is first felt to gradually take visible form.
Stillstand (Standstill)
2025
Stillstand (Standstill) is a short film created in the aftermath of my grandmother’s death and explores how to be with grief.
Through haptic engagement with materials, surfaces, weight, and touch, the piece investigates how the body searches for orientation when language becomes insufficient. Material becomes a companion in the grieving process: something to hold onto, resist against, breathe with, and return to.
The film follows a body searching for orientation when language fails, moving from collapse toward a slow re-emergence.
Mit allen Sinnen
(With All Senses)
Since 2023
With All Senses is an open workshop format inviting museum visitors to arrive in the space with more time and attention, shifting perception beyond sight. Participants are invited to notice how experience changes—shaped by movement, atmosphere, and surrounding impressions.
This workshop is continuously offered at Museum Brandhorst Munich and has in the past also been offered at the Pinakotheken Munich.
Somatic Exhibition Walks
Since 2023
Regular somatic exhibition walks and workshops at the Lenbachhaus Munich invite participants to engage with contemporary art beyond visual perception. Through movement-based and sensory exercises, attention is directed toward the body as an instrument of perception, exploring how artworks, space, and atmosphere are experienced in relation to physical presence.
Embodied History(ies): Space – Body – Memory
2026
What stories do we carry within our bodies? How do different spaces affect us, and how can movement shape the way we encounter them?
Inspired by the exhibition Carrying at Museum Brandhorst Munich, the workshop explores the relationship between body, memory, space and artworks. Through movement, painting and materials, participants are invited to attend to their own inner landscapes and the connections that emerge between personal experience, artistic expression and the spaces around us. It is an invitation to explore how movement can activate space and open new ways of relating to ourselves, to others and to our environment.
Raum Kunst Du Ich
(Space Art You Me)
2025
Raum Kunst Du Ich is a participatory workshop exploring the museum through the body, sensation, and shared spatial negotiation. Movement-based exercises invite participants to reconsider their relationship to institutional space and to the ways bodies, artworks, thoughts, and emotions coexist within it.
Developed for Hallo, mein Name ist Kunstbau at the Lenbachhaus Munich, the project treats the museum as a space to be inhabited, tested, and reimagined collectively.
Haltungen (Postures)
2019/20
Developed in response to the exhibition Senga Nengudi. Topologien at Lenbachhaus Munich, this participatory project engaged closely with Senga Nengudi’s sculptural approach to materiality, tension, and the relational qualities between body and object. Working from her practice of activated materials and embodied structures, participants explored how physical engagement with matter can generate movement, form, and collective presence.
The project culminated in a performative parcours and a film unfolding throughout the museum space, translating these material-body relations into choreographic encounters within the exhibition.
Cunningham Dance Lab
2025
Developed for Museum Brandhorst Munich, the Cunningham Dance Lab invited participants to explore Merce Cunningham's choreographic approach through movement, chance procedures and embodied experimentation. Drawing on Cunningham's interest in perception, spatial relationships and the independence of movement, the laboratory encouraged participants to discover their own movement languages rather than reproduce existing forms.
The process culminated in two public performances in which participants translated their individual explorations into choreographic encounters, revealing how attention, chance and embodied experience can become shared artistic practice.
Art in Motion
2018-21
Art in Motion was an interdisciplinary platform developed at the Academy of Fine Arts Kolbermoor, bringing together dancers, musicians and visual artists through improvisation and collective creation. Through workshops, rehearsals and performances, the project created space for different artistic practices to meet, influence one another and develop new ways of working together. Many of the questions first explored through Art in Motion continue to shape my artistic practice today.