Manuela Hartel is a media and performance artist living and working in Munich. She completed vocal and performance studies at the American Institute of Music in Vienna and the Centro Professione Musica in Milan and studied media art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. She stages her own video-music-performances in various locations which she extends and transforms through her projections. Her video installations were shown – among others – repeatedly for the Bavarian State Opera. She works as a performer on stage, integrated into her stage set and into the images of her video projections. She works with voice and text, and is supported by musicians and composers of Neue Musik and electronic music. Her latest video/sound installation and live performance “BELOVED!” premiered on 18 May 2017 during Documenta14 in Athens. As an artist of UNPAINTED her video work I LIVE IN HELL – LET ME LIVE was shown on the collateral events of the Venice Biennial 2017 at Palazzo Pisani.