Christine von Bernstein, born in 1984 as Christine Beggel in Biberach an der Riß, studied Theatre Arts and was trained as a photographer. After finishing her studies her installations and photos were exhibited in galleries in Munich, Hamburg, Berlin and Karlsruhe. Since 2009 she has been studying Media Arts at the Academy for Design in Karlsruhe. As a member of the performance and theatre collective “Die Happy Few” she designed the scenography for SCARLETT // meine diamanten sind von Cartier, du depp und Kult! as part of the 21st European Cultural Days. At the Graz Theatre she contributed to the performance of “Sex, Love and Crime” by Alexander Nowak. In Karlsruhe and Bonn she was an assistant stage designer. Among many others, she designed the stage for the German premiere of “My Secret Garden” by Falk Richter and the world premiere of Etel Adnan’s “Irgendwann in der Nacht”.