Foto: Karl Krüger
Foto: Karl Krüger
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Foto: Jane Dunker
Foto: Jane Dunker
Foto: Gerrit Busmann
Foto: Gerrit Busmann
Foto: Wolfgang Weimer
Foto: Wolfgang Weimer
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Foto: Gerrit Busmann
Foto: Gerrit Busmann
Foto: Gerrit Busmann
Foto: Olfried Lieberknecht
Foto: Olfried Lieberknecht
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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 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

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
    Skulpturen Museum Glaskasten Marl, series Grenzgänger
    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
      Sculpture of 70 TV sets on the river Rhine banks of Cologne and Bonn
    • Gleis-TV
      Installation on the tracks of the Zeche Zollverein Essen
    • Kalk-TV
      Installation in the hall of the Museum Ludwig, Cologne Kalk

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 action: 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 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.

1992

  • Gut Holz
    Outdoor installation made of two mobile chipboards and a wooden chair that is smashed to pieces.
    Presented in the cultural 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
    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 installation consisting of 30 stools that allow the audience four different perspectives on the performance.
    Installed in church, gallery and cultural centre.

2006

  • Beben/Vibrato
    Wooden table with red surface, lath with cymbal and singing bowl

2009

  • Berühren Zerreißen
    Two wooden chairs dressed in underwear on drawstrings
    Moving sculpture of a dancer bound into the clothed wooden chair. The dancers’ clothing, which goes through stages of being torn apart.

2010

  • Crash
    Outdoor installation made of two mobile chipboard panels and a wooden chair that is smashed to pieces.
    Further development of Gut Holz

2011

  • Performance Zerreißen
    The clothing of the performers, which go through stages of being torn apart.

2013

  • Die Kunst des Staubsaugens
    Sound 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 weckst 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
    Director: 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