Claudia Hill

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Claudia Hill
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Nationality German
Education FIT, Parsons [1] [2]
Website https://claudiahill.com/

Claudia Hill is an interdisciplinary artist, based in Berlin. [3] Her work engages in performance art, [4] costume [5] [6] and stage design, [7] experimental film, [8] [9] visual art [10] and sense-driven (somatic) form. [11] Her practice has been presented internationally at venues such as Mumok, [12] Centre Pompidou, [13] [14] Paris Internationale, [11] Les Rencontres Internationales, [15] ZKM, [5] BAM, [16] HAU, [17] [18] [19] Broadway, [20] the Smithsonian [21] and New York Fashion Week. [22] [23]

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Background and Education

Born in Germany, Hill comes from a background of tailors of Czech origin on her mother's side. [24] In 1993, she moved to New York to study contemporary dance. [6] [2] Shortly after, she enrolled at FIT and Parsons. [1] [2] At the same time, she began to work as a costume designer [25] and was admitted to the United Scenic Artists in 1997. She returned to Europe in 2008 and now lives in Berlin, [26] where she is an active member of the performing arts scene [27] [17] [18] [28] [29] [30] and continues to work with textiles as a costume and stage designer. [31] [32] [33] [34] [35]

Fashion (1998–2011)

In 1998, she founded two fashion labels, the eponymous Claudia Hill and The Number After 10, [36] which were presented and sold in Japan, the USA and Europe, at her own store, [37] in high-end boutiques, such as Barneys New York or Fred Segal [38] [39] and later exclusively at private salons in limited editions. [26] [36] Her New York Fashion Week shows were deemed unconventional and took the form of performances or installations, [40] often in collaboration with other artists, such as Asymptote Architecture [22] or Skúli Sverrisson.

Collaborations

As her designs expanded beyond the boundaries of the fashion industry, she created the costumes for William Forsythe's Decreation in 2003 [6] [41] and for The Wooster Group's production of Hamlet in 2007. [42] [43] She became a frequent collaborator of choreographer Meg Stuart, creating costumes for Sketches/Notebook [5] [44] and Hunter, [45] the two productions that won Stuart the choreographer of the year award from Tanz.

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  2. 1 2 3 Giordano, Kevin (Fall 2000). "Collector Items". *Surface . ISSN   1091-806X. came to New York in '93 to study dance, but switched to fashion at FIT and Parsons
  3. ↑ "Impulstanz Artist Biography". ImPlusTanz. Wiener Tanzwochen. 2020-03-02. Retrieved 2020-12-24. Claudia Hill is a Berlin-based cross-disciplinary artist
  4. ↑ Nehring, Elisabeth (2018-06-08). "Claudia Hill". In Hebbel am Ufer (ed.). Unacknowledged Loss: Kunst und Rituale [Unacknowledged Loss: Art and Rituals](Paperback) (in German and English). Berlin: Theater der Zeit. pp. 22–27. ISBN   978-3957491633.
  5. 1 2 3 Kaminski, Astrid (2013-03-04). "Dance Moves". Frieze . No. 9. pp. 24ff. ISSN   0962-0672 . Retrieved 2020-12-24. The entire first part of Sketches belongs to Hill.
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  7. ↑ Bickmann, Walter; Kolde, Doris (2019-12-16). "Eye Sea". Tanzformum Berlin. Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Abteilung Kultur, Referat VD . Retrieved 2020-12-24. Costume design & Stage: Claudia Hill
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  11. 1 2 "Paris Internationale 2019". Paris Internationale. Retrieved 2021-01-08. 18 October 2019 16:00, 19 October 2019 16:30, Chakra Sessions Performance, Claudia Hill
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  15. ↑ "Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin". 2018-06-20. Retrieved 2021-01-08. 7pm, Claudia Hill, Stephane Leonard: Kon'voi', Vidéo expérimentale, 4k, couleur, 9:23, Allemagne, 2017
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  20. ↑ Wesley, Jay (2005). "High on the Hill". Zoo . No. 8. ISSN   2210-2558. Hill has created costumes for Broadway productions like RENT
  21. ↑ "Not All Black and White". Wallpaper . April 2001. ISSN   1364-4475. when the Smithsonian picks up one of your designs from the Broadway production of RENT for its permanent collection
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  26. 1 2 Atwan, Shahar (2010-11-24). "Something intimate in shopping for elite couture". The International Herald Tribune . p. 9. ISSN   0294-8052. Hill displays only at special events, during which items can be ordered with a personal fitting.
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  29. ↑ "Supernova #2". HAU . Retrieved 2021-01-10. from 4pm Claudia Hill: Flags from Tomorrow, Claudia Hill: Kŏn'voi'
  30. ↑ "Raimunda Build a Flag". Künstlerin Claudia Hill
  31. ↑ "Pharmacist or Balloonist". Costumes: We fit in them
  32. ↑ "Ding Dong". By and with: [...] Claudia Hill [...]
  33. ↑ "The Clearing". Costumes: Claudia Hill
  34. ↑ "Water Sports". Costumes: Claudia Hill
  35. ↑ "Who's afraid of Raimunda". Künstlerin Claudia Hill
  36. 1 2 Pfeiffer, Alice (2010-12-28). "Breaking the Cycle: Claudia Hill". Interview . ISSN   0149-8932 . Retrieved 2021-01-10. Ms. Hill cruises from city to city and organizes fashion happenings— an apartment affair this winter in Paris, followed by a stop in a boutique in Tel Aviv.
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