Johanna Ackva is a Berlin-based choreographer and performance artist whose work blends movement practices with anthropological methods – drawing on observation, conversation, and everyday life – to explore the sensory, affective, and political dimensions of the relationship between Self and world. Since 2014, her collaboratively developed projects have engaged themes such as work and value, nature, femininity, mysticism, and mortality, manifesting across performances, installations, objects, and text. Beyond her artistic practice, she writes about dance, teaches at Universität der Künste Berlin, and is a core member of Libken — a residency and production space in the Uckermark region. In 2024/25, she is the recipient of the Tanzpraxis Scholarship of the Cultural Senate of Berlin. 

Johanna Ackva is one of the guests at the 5th edition of the Bulgarian Dance Platform, as part of the exchange between Brain Store Project and Uferstudios, Berlin. Her visit is part of the Capacity Grid programme.