Steffi Weismann

Steffi Weismann - CV

Intermedia and Performance Artist, lives in Berlin

Steffi Weismann, born in 1967 in Zurich, attended the Zurich School of Design and studied costume and set design as well as experimental music and performance at the Berlin University of the Arts. In the mid-1990s she began integrating the medium of video into her solo performances and exploring the interactions between language, music and new communication media. Apart from solo pieces in a performance context, since 2003 she has also completed a number of audiovisual projects in collaboration with contemporary composers.

In 1993, her interest in FLUXUS brought her together with the vocal performance group ‘Die Maulwerker’, with whom she has given concerts internationally as a composer and performer ever since. She is the co-founder of several artist groups, independent art spaces and event series in Berlin: KuLe (1990-2001), ex machinis (1995-2001), Labor Sonor (2000-2005) and Fernwärme - The Making of Performing Arts (2002-2007).

She taught performance at drama schools in Norway (Fredrikstad) and Denmark (Copenhagen) in 2000/2001 and at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee in 2007. She has been awarded grants to work at the kaskadenkondensator (space for contemporary art and performance) in Basle, Switzerland (2003) and Nadine - centre for performance and new media in Brussels (2004). In 2008 she received a three-month stipend from the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles.

Exhibition and Performance Spaces (selection):
SONAMBIENTE - international sound art festival Berlin (2006), TESLA Podewils'sches Palais Berlin (2005/2006/2007), LEM-Festival Barcelona (2006), ZKM Karlsruhe (2006), Marks Blond Project Bern (2005), Swiss Institute Rome (2004), KASKADENKONDENSATOR Basel (1999/2003/2005/2007), Museum for Communication Berlin (2004), Trampoline - Festival for Live-Art und Media Art Berlin (2004/2006), Museum MUMOK Vienna (2005), Institute of transacoustic research Vienna (2005), Festival Kontraste Krems Austria (2006), HAU 1 / Festival Maerzmusik Berlin (2005), Festival Musique-Action Nancy (2005), Goethe Institute Buenos Aires (2004), Museum KUBUS Hannover (2003), "Staatsbank” Berlin (2003)