Sebastian Faßnacht is a stage designer and interdisciplinary artist. He studied fine arts at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany. His works revolve around queer topics, often referring to pop and internet culture playfully using the tools of drawing, sampling, ready-made, and copy and paste. Faßnacht’s artistic practice is frequently developed in collaboration with other artists and performance collectives such as CLAT.gmbh, Queer B-Cademy, and Queereoké.
Faßnacht’s performance and theater related pieces have been shown in places like Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany; HAU Berlin, Germany; Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Beirut Pride, Beirut, Lebanon; Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria; Ruhrtriennale, Bochum, Germany.
While at MacDowell, he started a research and first drafts on the usage of un/solid, ephemeral, and im/material means in the production of stage designs. He worked with mediums such as fog, steam, sound waves, scent, humidity, temperature, and airflow. He also began a series of drawings inspired by the murmurations of starlings.
