Klaus Erika Dietl is a media artist and performer with a background in filmmaking and literature. He studied painting and art theory at the Academy of Arts (AdBK) in Munich. His work combines painting and subversive handicrafts with video, sound and digital art.
Together with fellow artist Stephanie Müller he initiated MEDIENDIENST LEISTUNGSHÖLLE in 2009. Since then it has evolved from a vibrant underground studio to a nucleus for international media art research and exchange programs.
Stephanie Müller is a textile artist, performer, experimental musician, producer and sociological researcher. She has a master’s degree in communication science, sociology and psychology (LMU Munich) and postgraduated at the AdBK in Munich. In 2015 she initiated the international collective ALLIGATOR GOZAIMASU together with Klaus Erika Dietl and Sapporo based artist Mikio Saito.
So far Dietl and Müller have been invited by festivals and institutions such as the SXSW Festival in Austin (TX, USA), the Mozarteum (Salzburg, Austria) and the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen (Germany), a festival that qualifies for the Oscars. They were part of „Playing The City 3“, a series of art interventions in public space hosted by the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt a. Main (Germany) and they exhibited at the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) within the international festival „100 Years of Bauhaus“. Furthermore they received visual and media art stipends in Amman (Jordan), Antwerp (Belgium), Birmingham (UK), Jakarta (Indonesia), Lviv (Ukraine), Salzburg (Austria) and Tibilisi (Georgia). Further highlights include a performance at the documenta Halle in Kassel (Germany) and a sound art production for „Licht im Kasten“, a radio play written by nobel prize winner Elfriede Jelinek.