Julian Warner

Julian Warner is a German-British artist and curator. He was artistic director of the Brecht Festival Augsburg from 2023 to 2025 and was responsible for the Festival of the Stuttgart Cultural Region in 2022. Prior to that, he designed festivals and spectacles for the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, the Münchner Kammerspiele and many others. He has working relationships with conceptual artist Anta Helena Recke, choreographer Joana Tischkau, theatre maker Oliver Zahn and musician Markus Acher. He is the editor of an anthology on problems of postcolonial criticism in Germany, "After Europe. Beiträge zur dekolonialen Kritik" (Verbrecher Verlag, 2021) and has been training as a group analyst at the Seminar für Gruppenanalyse Zürich (SGAZ) since 2019. Since 2025, he has held the professorship for transdisciplinary artistic practice at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts (HMDK).

In his “rite of passage” The Soldier, German-British artist and curator Julian Warner asks in which situations resistance to violent conditions must or can take on warlike forms. When does the decolonial struggle embody the hope for a more equitable world, and in which contexts, in turn, does seemingly necessary militancy rebound as psychological deformation on those seeking liberation?
This discussion, led by a group analyst, will take place immediately after the performance on 3 May and is exclusively for the audience of that performance. Included in the numbered ticket for the performance.