Vita
Helga Hagen
Born in Italy, raised in the Allgäu, bachelor degree in philosophy and art history in Vienna and Cologne. Study of free art at the HBK Braunschweig, currently studying media art in the Intermedia class of Alba D'Urbano at the HGB Leipzig. Co-founder of K56 in Leipzig, lives and works in Leipzig.
The works are predominantly short experimental videos in which partly documentary, partly fictional, mostly biographical and socially relevant topics are processed. Through image manipulation and collaboration with audio artists, a story is narrated in a concise, often obtrusive manner.
Vita