Theresa Baumgartner

Theresa Baumgartner is an award-winning Berlin-based visual artist and lighting designer whose large-format light installations explore alternative ways of shaping reality, moving between installation art and narrative environments. Trained in fine art at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, she has designed lighting for Wayne McGregor's Deepstaria and created 3D, 360° cinematic environments for On the Other Earth, winner of the 2026 National Dance Award for Best Dance Film, and served as the first Visual Artist in Residence at La Biennale Musica. She is the longtime stage and lighting designer for live performances of Hildur Guðnadóttir's Emmy-winning Chernobyl score, winner of the Opus Klassik Award for Most Innovative Live Show, and for Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein's Stranger Things score. For the 2026/27 season she designs set, costumes, and lighting for If I Do Not Return at Theater Basel. She is a co-founder of the Berlin collective Bestfilmsforever (BFF).ot Return at Theater Basel. She is a co-founder of the Berlin collective Bestfilmsforever (BFF).