Christina Kubisch

Born in Bremen (Germany), lives and works in Milano since 1973. After studies at the conservatories of Hamburg, Graz (Jazz-academy) and Zuerich she graduated in flute and composition. Furter studies of electronic music in Milano, composition with Franco Donatoni.
After numerous performances as a flutist specialized in contemporary music in 1975 she renounces at the career as an instrumental performer, concentrating her work on her own compositions, multi-media performances and video productions.
Since 1980 Christina Kubisch works mostly in the field of soundinstalations and enviromental concerts. Her installations are often presented in non-conventional places like parks, abandoned factories, shipyards, basements, monasteries and so on.

Christina Kubisch belongs to the first generation of sound artists. Trained as a composer, she has artistically developed such techniques as magnetic induction to realize her installations. Since 1986 she has added light as an artistic element to her work with sound.
Christina Kubisch's work displays an artistic development which is often described as the "synthesis of arts" - the discovery of acoustic space and the dimension of time in the visual arts on the one hand, and a redefinition of relationships between material and form on the other.