Rosa Wernecke born in 1986, lives and works in Berlin and Frankfurt. She studied Applied Theater Studies in Gießen and Media Arts in Cologne. Her work as a performance and media artist forces the dialogue between the performing and the visual arts. A queer-feminist approach to content is intertwined with a strong formal focus on the use of technical means from the fields of stage technology, light and video art, and new digital media. Her work has been shown at Moltkerei Cologne, Synnika Art Space Frankfurt, bauhaus reuse Berlin, CLB Berlin, Galerie Simone Menne Kiel, and the Center for the Holographic Arts New York, among others. Her video and light settings were part of scenic arrangements including shows at Radialsystem Berlin, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and Ruhrtriennale Bochum.
She is co-founder of the feminist performance and media art collective Swoosh Lieu whose performances and installations have been invited to festivals such as Tanzplattform Deutschland, Stückemarkt of the Berlin Theatertreffen, Impulse Festival Cologne and Festival Politik im freien Theater. Radio plays have been produced with NDR Kultur and aired at Deutschlandfunk, WDR, BR.
She has taught lighting and video design at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, the University of the Arts Berlin and Performance Studies in Hamburg and has given workshops at the Stückemarkt of the Berlin Theatertreffen and the Berlin Theatertreffen der Jugend. In 2023 she will be guest professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Science in Giessen.
In 2018 she received the postgraduate scholarship “Artistic Research” of the Hessian Theater Academy. 2018 was spent as artist in residence at the Villa Kamogawa of the Goethe Institute Kyoto in Japan. In 2021/22, she has received a scholarship for the Cultural Academy Tarabya in Istanbul. 2023 she will be artist in residence at the Cité internationale des arts Paris.
She is co-founder and board member of “Gefährliche Arbeit” (www.gefaehrlichearbeit.de) an association for the support of queer-feminist FLINTA theatre workers, who work between art and technology.
Here is Rosa Wernecke’s Vimeo Page.
Scholarships and residencies
- 2023 Artist in residence Cité internationale des arts Paris
- 2022 Global cultural exchange stipends of the federal state of Berlin / HoloCenter NYC
- 2021/22 Radio Play Scholarship, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
- 2021/22 Kulturakademie Tarabya Istanbul
- 2021 Home – Frankfurt – Tel Aviv
- 2018 Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, Goethe Institut
- 2017 postgraduate scholarship „Artistic Research“ Hessischen Theaterakademie
- 2014 Fleetstreet Hamburg
- 2013 Implantieren auf Naxos, Naxoshalle Frankfurt / Halle 2, Frankfurt LAB
- 2012 Scholarship Marianne Ingenwerth Stiftung
Work History
Concept, text, realisation
- Installation
</A “Manifesto” of= {every} One.s Own>Swoosh Lieu
Video
- Video
Nun IVSarah Nemtsov, Heinrich Horwitz
Concept, Video
Roses for my FuneralHeinrich Horwitz, Sarah Nemtsov, Rosa Wernecke
Concept, Video, Performance
Dea Ex MachinaSwoosh Lieu
Concept, Video
- Video
Caring for / from the FutureSwoosh Lieu
Notes:
Goethe Institute Brussels
Light, Video
- Première
Amazon StoriesOuternational: transtraditional concerts
Concept, Video
- Installation
SHORT CIRCUITRosa Wernecke
Concept, Video Design
- PremièreVideo
A Room of Our OwnSwoosh Lieu
Concept, Video, Light
- Première
Epilog:AbrissAndrej Koroliov, Heinrich Horwitz, Rosa Wernecke
Notes:
with Ensemble LuxNM
Video, Light
- PremièreVideo
EncounterHeinrich Horwitz, Carola Schaal, Rosa Wernecke
Video Design
- InstallationVideo
The AppearanceRosa Wernecke, Heinrich Horwitz
Notes:
Invited to "GRRL HAUS CINEMA" Filmfestival Berlin 2021 Invited to Pride on Screen - FLINTA* Outdoor Short Film Festival 2021, Bürgerplatz Berlin
Light Design
- Première
Roses for my FuneralSarah Nemtsov, Heinrich Horwitz, Decoder Ensemble
Notes:
Postponed until 2021
Video Design
- PremièreVideo
WolfsgesängeSarah Nemtsov, Heinrich Horwitz, Rosa Wernecke
Notes:
Postponed until 2021
Video Design
- InstallationVideo
Who Reclaims?! – ein feministischer Streifzug durch die StadtSwoosh Lieu / Rosa Wernecke
Concept, Video
- Première
A Feminist Guide to NerdomSwoosh Lieu
Video, Light, Room Concept
- PremièreReturn Season
nicht von hier irgendwoFutur II Konjunktiv
Concept, Video, Performance
- InstallationVideo
How to hear the invisibleKatharina Pelosi
Concept, Light, Photography, Hologramme
- Première
light glimpseRosa Wernecke / Swoosh Lieu
Video and Technical Production
- PremièreTour
The Primate TrilogySwoosh Lieu / Rosa Wernecke
Concept, Light, Performance
- PremièreReturn Season
The FactorySwoosh Lieu / Rosa Wernecke
Concept, Light
- Première