clarissa thieme is an artist and filmmaker. She works with film, photography, performance, installations and writing, combining documentary and fictional forms. Memory processes, identity politics and translation strategies are themes of her work in which she pursues a research-based and often collaborative practice. Thieme studied media art at the Berlin University of the Arts, cultural studies and aesthetic practice at the University of Hildesheim and is a research alumna of the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS).

Thieme presented her work internationally in numerous exhibitions and festivals, most recently including Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2022); Kunsthalle Mannheim (2022); Savvy Contemporary (2021); neuer berliner kunstverein (2021); Anthology Film Archives (2021); Nida Art Colony (2021); Rencontres Internationales Paris (2021); Berlinale (2020); n.b.k. videoforum (2020); Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (2019).

Her last three films premiered furthermore at Berlinale in succession: Was bleibt I Šta ostaje I What remains / Re-visited (Forum 2020), Can‘t You See Them? - Repeat. (Int. Short Film Competition & Forum Expanded 2019), and Today is 11th June 1993 (Forum Expanded 2018).

Her recent work includes Today is 11th June 1993 (Film, 13ʹ, & installation/performance, 2018), Weiter war nichts, ist nichts (Installation, 2019), Swaying (Performance, 2019); Can‘t You See Them? - Repeat. (Film, 8‘ & installation 2019), What Remains I Šta ostaje I Was bleibt / Re-visited (Film, 70‘, 2020), Do You Remember Sarajevo – Multitude (Installation, 2021) and Archival Grid Part 1 - 3 (Installation, 2022).

Thieme's work is available at Arsenal Distribution Berlin and sixpackfilm Vienna, as well as it is part of Video-Forum n.b.k. Berlin, blinkvideo, Hamburg and DES'T / district, Berlin.