Steffi Weismann

Steffi Weismann, born in Zurich in 1967, is an internationally recognized artist whose work moves fluidly between performance, sound art, intermedia, and video. Based in Berlin since 1988, Weismann is known for her solo performances that merge analog and digital media, exploring the dynamic interplay between humans, machines, and audiences. Central to her practice are the manipulation of the “live moment,” the tension between control and surrender, and the disruption of habitual patterns of perception. In recent years, her focus has shifted toward interventions in public space, mobile audio performances, and the experimental use of DIY technologies.

Weismann studied at the Zurich School of Design and the Berlin University of the Arts, where she trained under Martin Rupprecht, Dieter Schnebel, and Maria Vedder. She was a founding member of several independent art spaces and artist collectives in post-wall East Berlin, including the influential Kunsthaus KuLe, and played a formative role in the city’s performance and sound art scene as co-curator of festivals such as “auf eine art I–III” and the series “Labor Sonor” and “The Making of Performing Arts”.

Her long-standing collaborations include work with musician Annette Krebs, sound and media artist Georg Klein, and the vocal performance ensemble Maulwerker, of which she has been a member since 1993. Weismann’s work has been presented internationally and recognized with numerous grants and residencies, including stays in Brussels, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, Vienna, and Braunschweig. Since 2019, she has been a member and curator at Errant Sound, a Berlin project space for sound art, where she continues to advance new forms of performative sound practice.

Weismann is regarded as a boundary-crosser between artistic disciplines and a catalyst for new modes of creative communication and collaboration.