Portraits for Villa Maximo, 2021.
In his situational installations and performances, Carsten Saeger deals with the subjects of body, identity and memory. He was born in Halle (Saale) in 1988, studied Communication Design at the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle (B.A.) from 2009 to 2015 and Media Art at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (Diploma in Visual Arts) from 2015 to 2019. He participated in national and international group and solo exhibitions and received the 24th Federal Prize for Art Students in 2019. Since October 2019, he has been a lecturer at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in the class for Installation and Spatial Art (Prof. Joachim Blank).