Paula Schneider

Paula Schneider serves as Teacher for Special Tasks at the University of Art and Design Offenbach am Main, heading their book and paper workshop since 2020. She studied Book Art at Burg Giebichenstein Halle (2013-2019) and previously taught at Bezalel Academy (2017-2020). Her work bridges bookbinding, literary experimentation, and archival research through installations, artist books, and public interventions.

• Education:
  • 2019: Diploma in Book Art, Burg Giebichenstein University of Halle
• Teaching:
  • 2020–present: Lecturer for special tasks at HfG Offenbach
  • 2017–2020: Annual courses at Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design, Jerusalem
  • Screen printing tutor during studies

Her artistic research explores narrative structures, time perception, and memory systems through works like Inner Monologue (2018) and Mio Mnemotop (2021). Recent projects include Night Frost (2024) examining textual accumulation and Cloudburst Working on the Textberg (2024) using mining metaphors for textual analysis. She examines book formats (e.g., leporello, monotypes, screen printing) to interrogate knowledge preservation (Rabaraababaraba, 2015) and urban observation (Praise of the Gate, 2023).

Notable exhibitions include Because We Are Young (2021) analyzing GDR industrial history and Between (2019) at Halle/Leipzig Airport, which required mobile audience engagement with audio pieces about airport soundscapes. Her works have been featured in Text3 and Spin n errei tours.

Contact: schneider@hfg-offenbach.de | Workshop: +49 69.80059-245 | Office: +49 69.80059-106