Constanze Fischbeck

Constanze Fischbeck is interim rector and professor of scenography at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (HfG).

She works as a stage designer, filmmaker and curator and lives in Berlin. From 1992 to 1997 she studied stage design at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee. The starting point of Fischbeck's works is 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 are often created collaboratively and in dialogue with directors, choreographers and artists. From 2009-2015 she developed the international research - film - and art project "state-theatre #1-6" (with Daniel Kötter) in the cities of Lagos, Tehran, Berlin, Detroit, Beirut and Mönchengladbach, which represents an extensive exploration of the conditions of the sites of the performative. It has been presented internationally on numerous occasions (including 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 has won prizes at architecture and experimental film festivals. Since 2007 she has been teaching as a lecturer, among others at HBK Braunschweig, HfG Karlsruhe, RUB Bochum, HMT Leipzig, University of Hildesheim, UdK Berlin and from October 2019 as professor for scenography at HfG Karlsruhe. In 2015, she initiated a residency program for female artists and curators from Lagos and Berlin in collaboration with the Goethe Institute Lagos and three Berlin art institutions.