Lecture series TRACES - Transdisciplinary Center for Exhibition Studies
In her lecture, the renowned stage and costume designer Anna Viebrock provides exciting insights into her extraordinary artistic practice. Her stage sets are not pure fantasy products - they are created from fragments of real places, found objects and architectural remnants, which she transforms into new, ambiguous spaces. This blurs the boundaries between fiction and reality, between the theatre stage and the real world.
Viebrock's works are characterised by a particular authenticity. Foyers, multi-purpose halls and pubs serve as real-life models, whose structural characteristics she takes up and transforms into stage sets that are both familiar and irritating. Through deliberate breaks, functional shifts and visible construction processes, she reveals the ‘fabrication’ of these spaces - and thus also of our everyday reality.
In addition to her extensive theatre work, Anna Viebrock has also realised numerous exhibitions, including the highly acclaimed installation THE BOAT IS LEAKING. THE CAPTAIN LIES (2017, Prada Foundation, Venice) and, most recently, HEUTE DEMNÄCHST ENDE [TODAY THE END] (2024, Skulpturenhalle der Thomas Schütte Stiftung). In her exhibitions and on stage, she creates spaces that are not only designed, but also charged with stories and social contexts.
In her lecture, Anna Viebrock talks about selected stage designs and explains her artistic approach - between architecture, theatre, exhibition and memory.
TRACES research station at Lutherplatz
27.05.25, 18:00
Admission free
Event in German language