Raphael Sbrzesny

Raphael Sbrzesny studied fine arts, sculpture, contemporary music, classical percussion, chamber music, experimental music theater and theory in Stuttgart, Munich, Bern, and Paris. Raphael is a visual artist and musician who develops installations in which wearable sculptures are activated as musical instruments in performances and combined with costumes, texts, videos and photography.

Central to his work is the body as instrument and setting for subjective historiography. His publications include Service Continu 7/7 (Spector Books, 2017), tracing his practice at the intersection of music theater, visual art, installation, and theory, with the body as medium for appropriating history and making it one’s own; Was vom zweiten Körper übrig blieb (What remains of the Second Body) (Verlag Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2024); and Interpret*innenkammer – Polyphonic Workshop (Distanz Berlin, 2024), an open archive of fifty interdisciplinary teaching booklets. From 2018 to 2023 he was Professor for Rethinking Interpretation in Sound, Performance, and Conceptual Artistic Practice at the University of the Arts Bremen. Since 2024, Raphael is professor and head of the newly founded MA program Music and Scene in Transformation (MuST) at the Basel Academy of Music FHNW. His transdisciplinary practice – where scenic thinking, materiality, and polyphonic workshop formats converge – connects directly with metaLAB Basel’s focus on extended spaces, performance, and storytelling in entangled commons.