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

Publication

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