Julian Warner

Biography

Julian Warner is a German-British artist and curator. He was the 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).