Andrea Geipel
ABOUT ME
What drives me is the question of how we can make complex, often invisible topics visible – through images, spaces, stories, or formats that bring people together. I like the fragmentary, the non-linear. My career path has been zigzag-like – and that is precisely my strength. I combine scientific perspective with artistic expression, practice with theory, intuition with analysis.
I studied sports science in Munich and Giessen – with a broad focus on psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and social sciences. Later, I earned my doctorate in Science and Technology Studies, researching the influence of YouTube's platform logic on science communication.
As an artist and science communicator, I am intensively involved with migraines, pain, body awareness and chronic illnesses.
In drawings, mixed-media works, installations and participatory formats, I develop visual languages for experiences that can be described medically, but often remain invisible in society.
Beyond artistic practice, I research the impact of art in migraine education, develop educational formats, teach, hold workshops and advise on issues of visual health and science communication.
EXHIBITIONS
June 2026
Mindscapes
Pop-up pavilion, Kiel
In her solo exhibition "Head Landscapes," running from June 3 to June 13, 2026, artist Dr. Andrea Geipel explores the invisible illness of migraine through drawing, sculpture, and textile works, unfolding a multifaceted landscape of inner states. Accompanying discussions, exchange formats, and information evenings invite encounter, understanding, and shared reflection.
November 2025
Broken Echoes
Old Mu Creative Center, Kiel
Created as part of the Listening Sessions of atelier umraum eV, supported by the city of Kiel, with DJ Sibbedaiah, the installation BROKEN ECHOS shows the multifaceted physical and emotional space of chronic illness realities.
More information can be found on the blog .
August 2025
Migraine Black Box
HAW Hamburg
Shown as part of Pentiment, the 35th International Summer Academy for Art and Design in Hamburg. The Migraine Black Box artwork is an archive of fragmented experiences with chronic migraine and was created in Karin Kraemer's course "Zines, Artists' Books and Book Objects".
Further information can be found in the portfolio .
ART
Another focus of my work is advising museums, cultural institutions and projects in the field of digital and participatory cultural mediation.
I support processes related to digital storytelling, participation and change management, and assist institutions in developing new forms of communication, interaction and community participation.
In doing so, I combine strategic work with content development and a sensitive view of organizational cultures.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (SELECTION)
since 2020
Freelance work (artist, digital cultural mediation, science communication)
2024 - 2025
Public Relations & Outreach mareXtreme (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel)
2021 - 2024
Deputy Head of Deutsches Museum Digital, Head of VRlab (Deutsches Museum, Munich)
2018 - 2021
Project coordination sub-project museum4punkt0 (Deutsches Museum, Munich)
2015 - 2018
Research Associate at the digital|media|lab at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (Technical University of Munich)
2011 - 2015
Research Associate, Sports Psychology, EEG Laboratory (Technical University of Munich)