About

Antje Rieck is a Berlin-based artist who has been working independently for over twenty-five years.

Her work emerges from an engagement with the relational fabric of existence. She investigates how narratives shape, stabilize, and transform our perception of self, otherness, and the world — as dynamic structures marked by tension, transformation, and entanglement.

Through site-specific installations and sculptures, she brings together diverse materials and media into spatial configurations where processes of superposition, transformation, and diffraction become perceptible.

She approaches matter not as fixed substance, but as an open, performative configuration — a co-creator in processes unfolding between perception, space, light, energy, and technology.

Her artistic practice is grounded in a long-standing exploration of material processes and physical engagement, including the sculpting of large-scale marble works. These experiences inform her understanding of matter as responsive, relational, and in constant negotiation.

Building on this foundation, her recent work extends into the field of quantum computation. It explores how material processes, data, and perception are entangled in the formation of reality — developed in dialogue with leading research in quantum computing.

Biography 

Antje Rieck was born in Ulm, Germany, and lives and works in Berlin.

After studying sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Turin, she developed her artistic practice in Italy across diverse contexts and media.

Her work includes sculptures and site-specific installations in public space, as well as photographic, video-based, and performance works in collaboration with theatre, opera, and foundations. Since moving to Berlin, she has also worked as a curator.

She has realized international projects and commissions across Europe and the United States.

Building on this long-standing investigation, her current work extends into the field of quantum computation, exploring how material processes, data, and perception are entangled in the formation of reality — developed in dialogue with leading research in quantum computing.

In 2021–2022, she curated Freiheit im Kiez, supported by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bonn).

Recent artistic and research projects:
Quantum Computers and Art: How and Why, UdK / DESY, Berlin–Zeuthen (2025)
Hybrid Quantum Crystal, research residency, Cyprus Institute (2026)
The Entangled Logic of Otherness, upcoming presentation, Ars Electronica (2026)

Curatorial project:
Freiheit im Kiez, Rathaus Schöneberg and educational institutions, Berlin (2021–2022)

Earlier highlights:
Stones & Roses, MEF – Museo Ettore Fico, Turin (2016)
Seeing Through Abstraction, Residency Unlimited, New York (2015)
Illuminations d’eau, Fondazione Merz, Turin (2008)
Participation in the 54th Venice Biennale (Glasstress, 2011)