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Activities
- Basel Academy of Music: Head of MA Music and Scene in Transformation
Music and Scene in Transformation
Short biography
The visual artist and musician Raphael Sbrzesny develops installations in which wearable sculptures are activated as musical instruments in performances and combined with costumes, texts, videos and photography. In his artistic practice, he is interested in the body as an instrument and setting for a subjective historiography. Central to his work is the idea of the emancipated interpreter, who structures his own works using figures such as the Eumel, King, Son, Doctor, Sophie or Principal Boy and performs them anew time and again.
Raphael Sbrzesny (born 1985 in Oberndorf a. N.; lives and works in Berlin) studied fine arts, sculpture, contemporary music, classical percussion, chamber music, experimental music theater and theory in Stuttgart, Munich, Bern, and Paris. From 2018 to 2023, he was Professor for Rethinking Interpretation in Sound, Performance, and Conceptual Artistic Practice at the University of the Arts Bremen.
In 2024, he became programme director of the MA in Music and the Performing Arts in Transformation at the Basel Academy of Music.
Further links
Personal website
https://www.raphaelsbrzesny.com/