Judith Raum is an artist and author. She studied Fine Arts at the Städelschule Frankfurt/Main and at the Cooper Union School of Art New York City, as well as Philosophy, Art History and Psychoanalysis at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. Her research-based working method, for which she often commutes between studio and archive or place of investigation, is open to various media from painting to video works. In installations and lecture performances, audio pieces and publications, she addresses European colonial history and post-colonial issues, gaps in (art) historiography, traditional power relations in social space and hierarchies between the creative disciplines.
She has realized extensive artistic research projects with exhibitions, discussion formats and accompanying publications, including on Deutsche Bank's economic-political involvement in the Ottoman Empire (Haus der Kulturen der Welt / Salt Istanbul / archive books 2015), on the Bauhaus textile designer Otti Berger (Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin / Hatje Cantz / Victoria & Albert Museum, London 2024) and recently on German-Jewish history as part of an art-in-architecture competition at the Jewish Museum Berlin (2024).