Clara Alisch

Clara Alisch lives and works as a visual artist in Bremen. She graduated in 2021 as Master of Fine Arts from the University of Fine Arts Hamburg in the field of time-based media, where she was supervised by Matt Mullican and Michaela Melián. In 2018 she spent a semester studying at Beaux-Arts de Paris as part of the Art School Alliance scholarship programme. She is currently completing a supplementary Master of Arts and Film Studies at the University of Bremen. Since 2017, she has been a scholarship holder of the Künstler:innenförderung of the Cusanuswerk Bonn. With her multimedia video installation *Lactoland*, which deals with human milk production as a reproductive, economic, aesthetic and virtual process, she was the winner of the art prize *#rundgang50hertz 2022* of the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart Berlin, as well as the winner of the *Ursula Schneider Prize 2022* in the 1st main prize of the Museum der Arbeit Hamburg.

Alisch’s work and research focus on intersections of artistic, political, and academic discourses on (in) visibility relations, feminist spatial practices, and collective action strategies. She looks primarily at unpaid and therefore invisible reproductive work, in this context exploring utopian and speculative potentials for alternative (socio-)cultural narratives. Her artistic practice includes immersive multimedia video installations, performances and artifacts that strive to make these issues visible.

Her work has been shown in Germany in institutions such as the Medizin-Historisches Museum Hamburg (2018), the Fleetstreet Theater Hamburg (2018), the Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg (2022), the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart Berlin (2022), the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (2023), as well as in various solo and group exhibitions.