Prof. Knut Klaßen

Professor of Stage Setting and Costume Design

Stage Setting and Costume Design

Address:

Güntzstr. 34

Email:

klassen@hfbk-dresden.de

Website:

knutklassen.com

Statement

Knut Klaßen has a penchant for architecture, design, graphics and performance. He works as a visual artist in the theatre and as a theatre maker in the visual arts. He is currently designing interdisciplinary and collaborative teaching formats.

CV

seit 2023Honorary Professor HfBK Dresden
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 Some set designs for Showcase Beat Le Mot
 Teaching at Kunstakademie Münster, Performact Torres Vedras, ZHdK Zurich
seit 2017Teaching stage and costume design, HfBK Dresden, collaborations with Katharina Christl, Barbara Ehnes, Agathe MacQueen, Katrin Michel, Philine Rinnert and Stefanie Wenner
seit 2009Films about architects with Carsten Krohn
2007–2009Co-head of development department Anselm Reyle, Berlin
2006–2011Exhibitions at Galerie Thomas Flor, Düsseldorf and Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin
2005–2024Collaboration with Monika Gintersdorfer and the German-Ivorian-transnational performance dance and theatre group Gintersdorfer/Klaßen
2003–2008Collaboration Rekolonisation and gelatin-gelitin
2000–2023Collaboration with Marc Aschenbrenner
1998–2003Collaboration with John Bock
1989–1995Study of Fine Arts, HFBK Hamburg
1967born in Münster

 

Publication

Kathrin Tiedemann (Hrsg.)
Gintersdorfer/Klaßen – Eleganz ist kein Verbrechen
Postdramatisches Theater in Portraits
2020