Visual arts
Biography & list of works
Britta Lieberknecht works at the interface of dance and visual arts.
She combines dance and visual art elements as well as dance and music. Parallel to her dance training, she completed her A-levels with art as an advanced course and then researched movement and painting with students at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Since then, she has created a body of work consisting of drawings and dance action paintings. For her dance performances she has created sculptures, films, installations, video art, land art and a sound installation. Her performances are often interactions with material, radical, border-crossing and poetic.
Having long been interested in the confrontation of the archaic with contemporary civilisation, Britta Lieberknecht is currently focusing on creative communication.
Her installations have also been shown as independent works outside of the productions. The Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl presented the performance Kanga-Fuckin-Roo in the 2004 Grenzgänge programme and subsequently showed the spatial installation created during the performance process as an exhibition.
Her drawings have been presented in various solo exhibitions.
Britta Lieberknecht also performs in exhibitions of works by visual artists.
1977-79
- Art course in Düsseldorf with Beuys student Sigrid Schwarz, subsequently self-taught
1980
- Project at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with students from the class of Prof. Heerich on the subject of painting and movement
1981
- Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin, project with 16mm film by Monika Vogel Rot und Blau – eigene Geschwindigkeit (25 min.) Solo dance in the architecture of Sharoun, TU Berlin.
2003
- Kanga-Fuckin-Roo
Skulpture Museum Glaskasten Marl, series Grenzgänger
Space installation with video sculpture and colour pigments based on the performance of the same name
2004
- Drawings for the dance piece Procession by Nik Haffner and Thomas Mc Manus, Brotfabrik Bonn
2006
- Drawings for the dance piece Baud by Rodolpho Leoni, Pact Zollverein Essen
2016
- Drawings and performance, Performance Lounge Städtische Galerie Neuss
2017
- Drawings and performance, BBK Offene Ateliers Cologne, Studio Bergisch Gladbach
2018
- Dance action painting Momentschicht, Beton Box Düsseldorf, Kunstpunkte
1994
- Performance Duos with Reinhard Gerum
- Fluss-TV
Landscape Cult Track of 70 TV sets on the Rhine banks of Cologne and Bonn - Gleis-TV
Installation on the tracks of the Zollverein Essen colliery - Kalk-TV
Installation in the hall of the Museum Ludwig, Cologne Kalk
- Fluss-TV
Presentations at the film festivals VIPER Luzern, Festival Charleroi Danse, Video Dansa Barcelona, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Int. Tagore Film Prize, India (Reni Scholz)
1980
- Gold
Super 8, Action in Venice
Camera work: Mathias Schwerbrock
1981
- Crocodile Boxing Day
Super 8
Camera: Detlef Klepsch
1995
- Muybridge Dances
Film by Mathias Schwerbrock
Part of the programme of the same name - Barbiehypnosis
Video installation of the dance performance of the same name in the programme Muybridge-Tänze
Camera: Gerrit Busmann
2001
- seven video films/installations in the Australian desert
- Video sculpture made of eight Barco monitors with eight video sequences (70 min.) as part of the dance performance Kanga-Fuckin-Roo
Teatree Meditation
Swinging Weetootla
Walking the Line
Kangaroos
Running Totem
Jumping Totem
Foot Painting
Hand Totem
2006
- Karijini Song
Video film Australia
Editing: Gerrit Busman
Part of the dance performance of the same name
2020
- Skulpturales Ereignis Nr. 10
Installation and video film by Reni Scholz, co-design
1986-89
- Dinosaurier
Slide projections moved by hand and sound-controlled by three technical performers, screen triptych
Photographs: Max Hudson
1991
- Bombsville
Stage installation made of furniture, household items and clothing. It is destroyed or transformed in the course of the performance.</li
1992
- Gut Holz
Outdoor installation made of two mobile chipboards and a wooden chair that is smashed to pieces.
Presented in the supporting programme of documenta IX
1993-94
- Kunstrasen
Sound installation made of 8m x 8m floor mat made of green outdoor floor mats, mobile chipboard panels.
Computer-processed, motion-triggered sound composition by Willy Daum.
1995
- Irxsprocks Horizont
Dance solo based on a vectorial geometric system (mental installation) in the programme Muybridge Dances
1996
- Drücken Sie den Posaunisten
Light installation made of light bulb objects
by and with light artist Michael Vorfeld
2001
- Kanga-Fuckin-Roo
Space installation made of colour pigments, liquid paint, video sculpture made of eight Barco monitors, trampoline, foils, paper suits - Dance in blue
Liquid colour, foils
2003
- Ohrsichtig
Architectural spatial installation consisting of 30 stools that allow the audience four different perspectives on the performance.
Installed in churches, galleries and cultural centres.
2006
- Beben/Vibrato
Wooden table with red surface, lath with cymbal and singing bowl
2009
- Berühren Zerreißen
Two underwear-clad wooden chairs on drawstrings.
Moving sculpture of a dancer bound into the clothed wooden chair. The dancers’ clothing, which goes through stages of being torn apart.</li
2010
- Crash
Outdoor installation made of two mobile chipboards and a wooden chair that is smashed to pieces.
Further development of Gut Holz
2011
- Performance Zerreißen
The clothing of the performers, who go through stages of being torn apart.
2013
- Die Kunst des Staubsaugens
Installation made of vacuum cleaners
to works by:
2009
- Brele Scholz Loverman
Aula Carolina, Aachen
2014
- Reni Scholz Krisenhocker
Künstlerforum Bonn
2017
- Reni Scholz Missing Lola
BBK Offene Ateliers Köln and Bergisch Gladbach - Jutta Dunkel Sei leise, sonst störst du die Kleine
BBK Offene Ateliers Köln und Bergisch Gladbach - Joan Miró: Sculptures in the Fundacio Pilar y Joan Miró, Palma de Mallorca
in the context of FlipBook III
Guidance: Susanne Helmes
2018
- Brele Scholz Skulpturen
Inauguration of the studio in the Alte Brauerei, Aachen
2023
- Brele Scholz Tier/Ich/Tier
Aula Carolina, Aachen
Performance with the collective PML
2024
- Various artists, exhibition Verwerfungen
Betonbox Düsseldorf, Kunstpunkte
Performance with the collective PML