Liesel Burisch (DK/DE)
Artist
Program
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Art Hub Residency (Resident, spring 2024)
Liesel Burisch (DK/DE) is an artist, writer, and birth activist/worker. Burisch’s interest currently lies in hybrid gatherings around healing and celebration. Influenced by night-life culture and dilemmas, Burisch explores the reconstruction, recontextualization and reinterpretation of rest as a form of collective healing from trauma and austerity.
Burisch wrote the manifest Queer Nursing which has been included in the Wellcome Collection, London and become a stable for birth workers. Burisch is winner of the Prix JCE and a nominee for the CIRCA Prize 2023. Their most recent shows include exhibtions at O-Overgaden, Copenhagen, Art Tower Mito, Japan, Imagine The City, Hamburg and Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

Liesel Burisch. Photo: Tereza Mundilová