Steve Johnson-Wozowiecki in a spacesuit

Independent specialist · Wavect Expert Network

Steve Johnson-Wozowiecki

Interactive installations, museum strategy and stories that become spaces. Steve brings artistic direction and production experience from THE ROOM (1989) to JONZN SPACE kollektiv.

Specialty
Interactive Spaces & Cultural Strategy
Based in
Berlin, DE
Experience
37+ years
  1. Your brief
  2. One contract Wavect
  3. Patched in · Interactive Spaces & Cultural Strategy Steve Johnson-Wozowiecki

01SIGNALS

Why we vouch for them

  1. Founder and artistic director of JONZN SPACE kollektiv in Berlin, creating interactive installations and staged spaces.
  2. Credited personally for digital strategy by the National Gallery Prague.
  3. JONZN SPACE advised the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden on its published digital position.
  4. Named with TBO INTERACTIVE in the official record of the ARTOMAT art app’s 2015 Land der Ideen award.
  5. Co-taught Hybrid Spaces with Jonas Wietelmann at TU Dresden in 2015, connecting physical and digital cultural experiences.

02BIOGRAPHY

In their own line of work

Steve Johnson-Wozowiecki builds rooms. The first was THE ROOM, an interactive installation in 1989. The second was 240 MINUTES, an exhibition in 1990 built around two famous artists who did not exist. He and his collaborators invented them, staged them and watched press and public celebrate them as students of Warhol and Laurie Anderson. He drew his conclusions and has stayed out of the art world as an artist ever since.

As an exhibition maker he stayed in. He produced large group shows, culminating in X94: 650 artists, 25 exhibitions and 270 events over 50 days. He has painted since 1996 and sells directly from his studio to collectors, without galleries or openings.

In 2010 he went online, founding an agency and guiding media companies and cultural institutions through digital transformation. Since 2020 he has returned to the room as founder and artistic director of JONZN SPACE kollektiv. Its work combines narrative, interaction and media production. Wavect’s SKD Cabinet Coin case study documents a live visitor application built with SKD Digital and the collective.

He has written plays, slam poetry, short stories and songs. In 2026 he published two novels: ZIMMER Berlin, tracing thirty years of the city from the fall of the Wall, and MACHINE WINE, a Jack Bongo novel. NOW | HERE collects his meditations.

He lives in Friedrichshain and keeps a studio in Köpenick, on the Spree.

03WHEN WE BRING THEM IN

Where Steve Johnson-Wozowiecki plugs into a Wavect engagement

Wavect builds the product. When a build crosses into a domain that exceeds our own bench, we bring in the specialist who already lives there. This is the brief for this one.

  1. Interactive exhibitions and installations

    Bring Steve in when a museum, exhibition or brand needs a spatial concept, visitor interaction and production direction. Wavect can develop the software that supports the experience.

  2. Digital strategy for cultural institutions

    For museums deciding which digital formats to build, Steve brings experience with institutional strategy, organisational change and procurement.

  3. Narrative and creative direction

    When technology needs a story, Steve connects the visitor journey, writing and staging with the practical work of production.

04EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENTS

Selected work, delivered with their own clients

Brought in. Not introduced. We engage these specialists inside our own projects, when a brief calls for depth our bench does not carry.

External engagement

National Gallery Prague

Digital strategy

The gallery’s own website credits JONZN SPACE and Steve by name for digital strategy. Website design and development are credited separately to BRAINZ STUDIOS.

Resources

Institutional project credit

External engagement

Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden

Digital transformation · JONZN SPACE

The museum identifies JONZN SPACE as adviser on its digital position. Its 2021 annual report describes workshops and staff consultation across the institution.

Resources

Museum’s digital programme

External engagement

Hybrid Bridges

Interactive museum laboratory · JONZN SPACE kollektiv

JONZN’s portfolio lists a museum laboratory with SKD, Common.Garden and Mystetskyi Arsenal, covering format development, interaction design, prototyping, media planning and code.

Resources

Collective’s project overview

Not our domain?

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