Claudia Brieske  -   brieske@virtual-residency.net
Experimental Sculpture, Sound and Video Installations

1986-1990 Student of Fine Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze
1991-1995 Student of Fine Art/Sculpture at HBK Saar (Saar Art College) under Wolfgang Nestler and Serge Spitzer
1995 First class degree, MA
1996-1997 Working periods in Paris (F) and Poland
2000-2001 Multimedia developer, Macromedia - Akademie für Neue Medien (New Media Academy), Karlsruhe
Conception/organisation of and curatorial work for the international media art project "Gegenort - The-Virtual-Mine"
2000-2002 Working periods in New York and San Francisco (USA)
since 2002 Lecturer for "Interventionen im öffentlichen Raum" (Interventions in Public Spaces) at HBK Saar

Prizes, Grants, Funding and Awards
1996 Grant awarded by the Foundation for Franco-German Co-operation
1997 Award for outstanding graduates of HBK Saar for the project "dog show", exhibition and catalogue of the series STATEMENT, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken
2006

Holder of the town of Saarbrücken’s art scholarship


Projects
1999

"Ihre Haltung ist einwandfrei" (Your Attitude is Perfect), Staatstheater Saarbrücken, experimental vocal piece for the exhibition "Vernichtungskrieg – Verbrechen der Wehrmacht" (War of Destruction - Crimes of the Wehrmacht)
"fliegenfallen" (Fly Traps), video installation and sound sculpture supporting the performance of "Jagdzeit" (Hunting Time) by Gundi Ellert in the "Theater im Kino", Berlin
“Orte essen, Mägen füllen - Jagdzeit" (Eating Places, Filling Stomachs – Hunting Time), performance with Andrea Dengler and Katja Romeyke (sponsored by the Saarland Ministry of Culture and Science)

2000-2001 Conception and organisation of the international media art project "Gegenort - The-Virtual-Mine"; curatorial work together with Monika Bohr, Leslie Huppert, Fevzi Konuk and Gertrud Riethmüller – database-supported Internet platform and exhibition in the shaft complex Gegenort / Neunkirchen
up to 2006 "Elsewhere - Not here, not there / Anderswo - nicht hier, nicht dort" - international exhibition project in Saarbrücken and San Francisco

Exhibitions (selection)
1990 Galleria Quartiere N.1 - Perseo centroartivisive di Firenze (I)
1992 "Schmecken Sie die Angst" (Taste the Fear), Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken
1995 "Verschiebungen" (Displacements), Saarländisches Künstlerhaus
1996 "Die Wächter 1 und 2" (The Watchmen 1 and 2), sound installation, Illinger Burgfest für Neue Musik (new music festival)
1997 "sounds like keeping a living dog at home ...", Galerie 68 elf / Cologne
1998 “Gewalt Akte” (Acts of Violence), exhibition project in the bunker Ehrenfeld / Cologne
"touch me - don't touch me", sound installation for the Donaueschingen music days
2000
2001
"Saarbrücken - Kiel, Kiel - Saarbrücken", exhibition project at the Kunstverein Kiel Realisation of the interactive installation “Windportraits” sponsored by Siemens AG for "Visionen 2000", Saarland State Art Exhibition, Museum St. Ingbert
Project presentation "Gegenort - The Virtual Mine" at the Biennale for Digital Media Art, Manila, Philippines, and at the Symposium for Digital Art in Sao Paulo, Brazil
2001-2003 "La bouillie sucrée" (Sweet Pap), video installation for the project "Mein Aldi, mein Cora Delux", Saarbrücken, Metz, Luxembourg, Pirmasens, Brussels
2003 "I/O #1 video program", video installation, Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco (USA)
2004 Antworten / Réponses, sound installation, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken
"Leerstelle" (Gap), international exhibition project together with Arnold Dreyblatt amongst others, Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg)
"home territories / Heimatgebiete N° 1-3 ", Museum Haus Ludwig, Saarlouis, Saarland State Art Exhibition
“urzula”, contempory video art, Galerie Pankow, Berlin
2005 Electric Ladyland, Ausstellungsprojekt im Umformwerk Prenzlauer Allee, Berlin

One (Wo)man Exhibitions
1993 Exhibition in Vechta women’s prison
1995 "Zwischenraum - Körper und Zeit" (Interspace – Body and Time), Völklingen steelworks
1997 "dog show", exhibition / series STATEMENT, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken
1999 Exhibition at the Kunstverein Kaponier Vechta
2002 Windportraits, Galerie Robert Keller / Kandern