Rosa Wernecke born in 1986, lives and works in Berlin and Frankfurt. She studied Applied Theater Studies in Gießen and Media Arts in Cologne. 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 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 Fleetstreet Hamburg, Moltkerei Cologne, Synnika Art Space Frankfurt, bauhaus reuse Berlin, Galerie Simone Menne Kiel, and the Center for the Holographic Arts New York, among others.
She is co-founder of the feminist performance and media art collective Swoosh Lieu whose performances and installations have been invited to Tanzplattform Deutschland, Stückemarkt of the Berlin Theatertreffen, Impulse Festival Cologne and Festival Politik im freien Theater, among others. Radio plays have been produced with NDR Kultur and aired at Deutschlandfunk, WDR, BR.
In 2013, she spent the year as a research assistant with a focus on scenic work and dramaturgy at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, where she supervised the practical study projects. She has taught lighting design and stage machinery at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Giessen and Performance Studies in Hamburg and has given workshops at the Stückemarkt of the Berlin Theatertreffen and the Berlin Theatertreffen der Jugend. From 2015 to 2016 she worked in the technical production and video department of the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company (formerly: The Forsythe Company). 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. For 2021/22, she has received a scholarship for the Cultural Academy Tarabya in Istanbul.
Here is Rosa Wernecke’s Vimeo Page.
Scholarships and residencies
- 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, 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
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
Everything But SoloSwoosh Lieu
