Philip Bußmann
Philip Bußmann is a stage designer and video artist. He has been working for international dance, theater and opera productions since 1995. Recently, he has devoted himself to independent installations, photographic works, performance and VR projects. His most notable works include numerous pieces with the New York Wooster Group (1990s) and the choreographer William Forsythe (2000s). Since 2004, he has enjoyed a long-standing collaboration with the Flemish theater director Luk Perceval. Theater productions have taken him to the Thalia Theater Hamburg, the NTGent, the LA Opera, the Staatsoper Hamburg, the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Volkstheater Wien, the Stary Teatr Kraków and the Berliner Ensemble, among others.
Bußmann's installations have been exhibited at the Ursula-Blickle-Stiftung, the Goethe-Institut Montreal, 2121 Design Sight Tokyo, the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt and the Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts. Bußmann was a guest artist at the Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto, received a scholarship from the BAU Institute at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis and was supported by the Hessische Kulturstiftung, Neustart Kultur Stepping Out and the Fonds Darstellende Künste. He has taught as a visiting professor at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, in the Master's program in Stage Design at the Zurich University of the Arts and at the Academy of Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg. Philip Bußmann currently lives in Frankfurt am Main.
Courses in winter semester 2023/24: „On the Proportionality of Means“ Scenographic thinking from campfire to virtual reality