Claudia Chaseling: Bio

Claudia Chaseling is a German-Australian artist. She received a Masters degree in Visual Art, from the University of the Arts in Berlin and a PhD (Doctor of Philosophy in Visual Art) from the Australian National University in Canberra.

Claudia is known for the practice of Spatial Painting, site-mutative, biomorphic, abstract murals, which cover walls, floors and ceilings. These works are drafted from one particular viewpoint, to visually distort and dissolve the familiar geometry of the space, whilst carrying socio-ecological meaning. In 2013 she published the graphic novel Murphy the mutant that became an anchor for her work to follow.

Since 2000, Claudia has exhibited her work in over eighty solo and group exhibitions, prominently in Europe, Australia, and the USA. Notably, her work has been featured in the X-Border Biennial in Finland, the Luleå Art Biennial in Sweden, and the Lorne Sculpture Biennial in Australia. Recent projects include solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery Nadezda Petrovic in Cacak, Serbia; Wollongong Art Gallery in Australia; Krohne Art Collection in Duisburg; Rohkunstbau 26 in Lieberose; Momentum Berlin; and "Dissonance. Platform Germany" at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany. In the USA, she has realized major commissions with Art in Buildings in New York City and Milwaukee. Her recent solo exhibition, "silent shadows," at Maus Contemporary in Birmingham, AL, USA, has garnered significant attention.

The Verlag für zeitgenoessische Kunst und Theorie Berlin published her first extensive monograph in 2016.

Significant grants and scholarships received continuously – include those of the German DAAD and Karl Hofer Studio Award; the Australian Samstag Scholarship, an Australia Council for the Arts grant and the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship to undetake her PhD. Claudia has taken part in various international visiting artists programs and residencies, among others at Art Omi and the International Studio and Curatorial Program, both  in New York, and at the Texas A&M University.

The Verlag für zeitgenoessische Kunst und Theorie Berlin published her first extensive monograph in November 2016. In 2022 the book Dissonance. Platform Germany has been published featuring her work and that of 80 of the key painters of the ‘post-wall generation’, which are active in Germany today.