Cornelia Krafft - artistic director,choreographer,scenography & costume designer
was born in Munich, Germany, in 1972. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. Krafft taught at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna for ten years before coming in 2009 to the Department of Fine Arts and Art History at the American University of Beirut (AUB). With her expertise as Professor for Performance Art and Scenography she staged publicly major Performance Events. With an DAAD scholarship she then lived in Berlin 2015/16 and taught at the University of Arts Berlin (UDK). To this day she continues her work as an artist in Lebanon and throughout Europe, especially in Vienna.
January 2020 she started to work for different production houses for feature-, documentary- and commercial films in Austria. Aside she broadened her expertise in drama, dance and movement therapy.In 2024 she received the "Sesame"diploma in Drama and Movement Therapy from the UK Sesame Community Network.This led her to develop her own method "4D- DANCE.DRAMA.DREAM.DRAW." 4D is movement & dance, role play & improvisation, guided meditation, drawing & scribbling: Four powerful practices to access your inner riches, strengthen your sense of body/mind/spirit connection and give your intuitive creativity more space to grow freely. She offers workshops and individually tailored sessions in Vienna and Beirut.
Krafft’s work as an artist and choreographer has received broad local and international coverage with reviews in various print media and broadcasts in news media. In the past years her in depth practice and research explored mute movement, dance, design and space in relation to the social, political and cultural fabric.
She was internationally invited to lecture and give workshops about her expertise at the University of Applied Arts -Vienna, The Theater Akademiet Norway, The University of Arts Berlin and the University of Arts London. Krafft's art has been showcased in Vienna, London, Munich, Berlin, Venice, Beirut,Prague and Pomorie, Bulgaria and in Bundanon, Australia. In Lebanon, her installations, paintings, photography, and films were showcased at Gallery Janine Rubeiz, at the Musée Sursock Salon d’Automne XXX & XXXI and is part of the permanent collection of MACAM (Modern and Contemporary Art Museum).
Her publication “MUTE MOVEMENTS" (300 pgs),sponsored by the AUB Presidents Club was published by AUB Press in March 2015. In June it was first internationally launched in Prague at the Prague Quadrennial for Performance Design and Space (PQ2015) where Krafft was also one of the artists to represent Lebanon at its first participation.
was born in Munich, Germany, in 1972. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. Krafft taught at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna for ten years before coming in 2009 to the Department of Fine Arts and Art History at the American University of Beirut (AUB). With her expertise as Professor for Performance Art and Scenography she staged publicly major Performance Events. With an DAAD scholarship she then lived in Berlin 2015/16 and taught at the University of Arts Berlin (UDK). To this day she continues her work as an artist in Lebanon and throughout Europe, especially in Vienna.
January 2020 she started to work for different production houses for feature-, documentary- and commercial films in Austria. Aside she broadened her expertise in drama, dance and movement therapy.In 2024 she received the "Sesame"diploma in Drama and Movement Therapy from the UK Sesame Community Network.This led her to develop her own method "4D- DANCE.DRAMA.DREAM.DRAW." 4D is movement & dance, role play & improvisation, guided meditation, drawing & scribbling: Four powerful practices to access your inner riches, strengthen your sense of body/mind/spirit connection and give your intuitive creativity more space to grow freely. She offers workshops and individually tailored sessions in Vienna and Beirut.
Krafft’s work as an artist and choreographer has received broad local and international coverage with reviews in various print media and broadcasts in news media. In the past years her in depth practice and research explored mute movement, dance, design and space in relation to the social, political and cultural fabric.
She was internationally invited to lecture and give workshops about her expertise at the University of Applied Arts -Vienna, The Theater Akademiet Norway, The University of Arts Berlin and the University of Arts London. Krafft's art has been showcased in Vienna, London, Munich, Berlin, Venice, Beirut,Prague and Pomorie, Bulgaria and in Bundanon, Australia. In Lebanon, her installations, paintings, photography, and films were showcased at Gallery Janine Rubeiz, at the Musée Sursock Salon d’Automne XXX & XXXI and is part of the permanent collection of MACAM (Modern and Contemporary Art Museum).
Her publication “MUTE MOVEMENTS" (300 pgs),sponsored by the AUB Presidents Club was published by AUB Press in March 2015. In June it was first internationally launched in Prague at the Prague Quadrennial for Performance Design and Space (PQ2015) where Krafft was also one of the artists to represent Lebanon at its first participation.