Biography

1986-90: Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Painting
1991-95: School of Fine Arts Saar, Study of Fine Arts / Sculpture
1995/96: Diploma and Master‘s Student with Serge Spitzer

1997/98: Scholarship from the Foundation for German-French Cultural Co-operation,stays in Paris, Poland and USA.
2000: Video-Installation-Prize Marl, installation concept of Windportraits shown at the exhibition.
2005: Fellowship of the Landeshauptstadt Saarbrücken
2006: First Prize, "Video Art Prize octobre rouge", Luxembourg.
2001-2007: Co-initiator of the international media art projects "Gegenort- The-Virtual-Mine" and "Virtual Residency"
2012: Fellowship der Kulturstiftung Rhein-Neckar-Kreis e.V.
2013: Winner of the SR Media Art Award
2017: artist in residence at Künstlerhauses Schloß Wiepersdorf

In 2002-11 Claudia Brieske was working as a lecturer and artistic scientific associate for „Intervention Projects in Public Spaces“ at the University of Fine Arts Saar. 2009 she has participated in the BFH research project, Gesture Performance and in the years 2014-16 she was a lecturer at the Haute Ecole pédagogique Friborg (CH) for video/performance. Since 2016 she has been curating art projects for students at the studierenWERK Berlin. As an artist, she realizes site-specific video and sound installations. The relationship between sound, space and movement has a special meaning in her work. Her approach: so-called „metaphorical Gestures“, i.e. sequences in which simple gesture is focused so that complex perception levels are revealed and new forms of communication explored. Engagement in diverse activities in festivals for New Music and collaborations with dance and theater productions allowed her to develop her work in various directions. Since 2006, together with Franziska Baumann (singer|sound artist|composer), she has been realising vocal productions with virtual image spaces as the duo Baumann-Brieske.

She holds the European Diploma in Cultural Project Management from the Fondation Marcel Hicter in Brussels. She is a founding member of the vocal ensemble VOXLabYrinth Bern (CH) and the Initiative temporäre Kunsträume (Initiative for Temporary Art-Spaces) in Berlin. She is a member of Atelierhaus Mengerzeile in Berlin, Treptow-Köpenick.

Exhibitions (selection)

2024: Hingabe, Gruppenausstellung auf dem Stadtfriedhof Angermünde | a project of Initiative temporäre Kunsträume e.V.
MÉLANGE - group exhibition - artists of Atelierhaus Mengerzeile , Galerie Neurotitan, Haus Schwarzenberg, Berlin
2023: Au Rendez-vous des amis, SaarART 2023 – 63 Künstler:innen aus dem Saarland, Frankreich/Lothringen und Luxemburg
2021: I am transhuman. / 2 channel video, Museum St. Wendel, Summer Exhibition 2021
2020: pulse - Stampfsymphonie n°1- 4, cycle of works Stampf-Symphony in Museum St. Wendel
2019: Das Raunen der Dinge <The Rumor of Things>, experimental noise opera for a female singer, vocal flash mob, staged visual environments and live electronics, Musikfestival Bern
2018: Three times 'Schnuppe'? Observation of crashes and other cosmic processes. Claudia Brieske, Jana Debrodt, Peter Müller, Ortstermin 18, Gallery North, Berlin
2017: Stampftrio n°3 in "Salon Wiepersdorf", Saarländische Gallerie Europäisches Kulturforum Berlin
Stampfsolo n°1, Video- und Klanginstallation in der Landeskunstausstellung des Saarlandes "SaarArt11" und Stampfsolo n°2 in RAZERAISE, Kunsthalle m3, Atelierhaus Mengerzeile Berlin
2016: los_treten / Zeichnungen, Skizzen und Storyboards für Video- und Klanginstallationen, Gallerie Julia Philippi, Heidelberg
2015: NOMAD-X, video- and sound installation for the coutyard of Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken
2014: Anlandung (Liquid Souls), parliament of the federal state of Saarland, within the exhibition of „Kunst im Landtag“ (art in the parliament)
einatmen : ausatmen – Breathing is a business like everything else, transmedial installation for the public art project „Tatort Paderborn – Phänomen Fußgängerzone“ (the pedestrian zone),
exhibition of the installation at Saarländischen Galerie – Europäisches Kunstforum e.V. in Berlin, showcase at Diözesanmuseum Paderborn)
2013: Körperschleusen (Liquid Souls), video- and sound installation at UNESCO Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte, Saar Art 2013
2012: Fictions, audiovisual concert performance with Ensemble NEC, Composition and voice: Franziska Baumann, Centre Dürrenmatt, Neuchâtel and Dampfzentrale Bern (CH)
Virtual Borders + + + travelling lightly + + + mit leichtem Gepäck + + +
audiovisual media art project, Station I: Feste Dilsberg, Station II: Saarländische Galerie - Europäisches Kunstforum e.V.
2011: Liquid Souls, video- and sound installation for "Musiktage Donaueschingen"
property - ein Gesang auf das Eigentum (a chant on property), video- and sound installation, STUDIOBLAU - Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken
2010: Kunstraum AVUS - Dreieck Funkturm, video and sound installation in the AVUS Motel, Berlin (D)
Tsanfleuron - Seeing the Body, Hearing the Voice AudioArt Festival Warsaw, 26.11.2010 Studio S1 - Frederik Chopin University of Music, Warschau (PL)
Premiere of Tsanfleuron - Seeing the Body, Hearing the Voice, Dampfzentrale Bern (CH)
2009: Georg-Kolbe-Museum Berlin, sound installation for the project AVUS Nordkurve
ICI Berlin, exhibition project, La Condition Publique, Lille (F)
2008: Fenstersprung, exhibition project at the interface of privacy and public space, PROGR Bern (CH)
2007: Exhibition Prix d'Art Robert Schuman, Stadtmuseum Simeonstift, Trier
2006: Elsewhere - Not here, not there / Anderswo - nicht hier, nicht dort, Oakland Art Gallery, San Francisco (USA)
2005: Daheim - Kastanienallee 15/Oderbergerstr. 8, exhibition project, Berlin
2004: Antworten / Réponses, sound project, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken and
Cave des St. Croix, Metz (F)
2003: I/O #1 video program, Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco (USA)
2000: Windportraits, solo exhibition at the Gallery Robert Keller / Kandern
1999: Einzelausstellung im Kunstverein Kaponier Vechta
1998: touch me - don't touch me, sound and video installation for Musiktage
Donaueschingen
1997: dog show, solo exhibition / Reihe STATEMENT, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken