Fine Freiberg is a video artist, musician and media educator.
In her artististic and research based work, Freiberg examines the relations of archives, the associated image politics and the role of memory. Artistic practices are animation, sampling, music composing and drawings.
She studied photography and media art at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig with Tina Bara and Helmut Mark, graduated in 2009 and worked as a videodesigner since 2016 for various theatre groups including Rimini Protokoll (La danse d'amazon, 2023), Turbo Pascal (Kritter, 2023), Antonia Baehr (Feuer und Flamme, W wie Wollmäuse, Hörposaune 2020-2022), SheShePop (Hexploitation, 2021), Christoph Winkler (On Hela, 2019) and Hebbel am Ufer Theatre Berlin (2016-2023).
As a senior artist at the UdK Berlin from 2016-2019 she gave lectures and seminars on animation/stop motion, archive politics, image politics and media theory and supervised students projects. Her new position at University of Applied Arts in Vienna for Digital Art started in october 2024.
In addition to her artistic work, Freiberg would like to collaborate with environmental scientists.
︎︎︎Positions/Teaching (selection)
2024 Head of technical department, at University for Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
2024 Archivist & Photo Editor for ARD Retro Spezial
Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv
2022 “A place...one piece of film”
Super 8 Film Workshop with Dafne Narvaez, HfBK Braunschweig
2017 ONE PLUS ONE - curating the Archive, Arsenal Summer School, Berlin
2016-2019 Graduate Lecturer for analog film & sound production/ Head of technical department, Institute for Art in Context, University of Fine Arts, Berlin
2013- 2015 interfilm festival, animation & graphic design
2009-2012 Art teacher for digital & analog photography
Kurt Schwitters Europe- School, Berlin
︎︎︎Exhibitions/Symposiums/Projects (selection)
2025 SEXY SOLIDARITIES - Bodily Autonomy, Trauma and Protest, Exhibition of the Porn Film Festival Vienna
2024
2023 Research Stipend (6 months) by the Berlin Senate
2022-2023 “School, Neighbourhood and Contradictions”
Oral History in School - Project / Bildungsteam Berlin- Brandenburg
2022 Movement Research ACROSS Performancefestival, Galerie Wedding
2021- 2022 “the urge to land” Altes Finanzamt / queer-feminist project- space / Live-Animation Projects
2019 40 years- Art in Context, UdK Berlin
2011-2013 T.V.O.D. project space/ art gallery
(with Pauline Recke & Lena Rosa Haendle)
2011- 2016 Entzaubert DIY Queer Filmfestival, Curating/Programming
2016 on war, Archival Symposium, Entzaubert Filmfestival, Berlin
2014 Rabbit Holing by James Rosalind, Music Composition, Premiere at BFI Flare London
2010 in a shadow Box, Gallery Crystal Ball, Berlin
︎︎︎Education
2021-2022 Examination Certificate Event Technician, IHK Berlin
2012-2013 Certificate Webdesign & Actionscript / Digital Audiodesign, Cimdata Academy Berlin
2009 Master of Fine Arts, Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig
2000-2002 Bachelor Philosophy / Older German Literature & Medieval German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt University Berlin