Constanze Fischbeck becomes new professor for scenography

Constanze Fischbeck works as a stage designer, filmmaker and curator and lives in Berlin. She studied stage design at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee from 1992-97. The starting point of Fischbeck's work is the space, the present and the social context of specific places. In her filmic works, she combines spatial analysis with staged discourse and performative as well as documentary elements. In her designs for the theater, projections and moving images interact with transformative spatial structures. Constanze Fischbeck's works often emerge collaboratively and in dialogue with directors, choreographers and artists. From 2009-2015 she developed the international research - film and art project state- theater # 1-6 (with Daniel Kötter) in the cities of Lagos, Tehran, Berlin, Detroit, Beirut and Mönchengladbach, which represents an extensive examination about the conditions of the places of the performative. It has been presented internationally (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Cologne, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Mousonturm Frankfurt, Architecture Biennale Venice, SALT Istanbul, Art Museum Nanjing, National Gallery Singapore, Segal Center Festival New York) and won prizes at architectural and experimental film festivals.
Since 2007, she teaches as a lecturer, ia. at the HBK Braunschweig, the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe, the RUB Bochum, the HMT Leipzig, the University Hildesheim, the UdK Berlin and from October 2019 as Professor for Scenography at the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe. In 2015, she initiated a residency program for artists and curators from Lagos and Berlin in cooperation with the Goethe Institut Lagos and three Berlin art institutions.