Ruth Stofer

The Swiss video designer Ruth Stofer studied art and media at the Zurich Academy of the Arts and from 2012 to 2016 worked as a video technician at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, where she contributed to numerous theatre productions. In 2012 she developed the video designs for Ruedi Häusermann’s play Vielzahl leiser Pfiffe there.

Since 2016 she has been freelance and has created numerous video designs with and for Jan Bosse, Ruedi Häusermann, Karin Henkel, Eva-Maria Höckmayr, Volker Lösch, Christof Loy, Nina Russi, Lydia Steier and Vasily Barkhatov. She has worked at venues including the Munich Kammerspiele, the Schauspiel Leipzig, the Frankfurt Opera, the Mousonturm in Frankfurt, Theater Bonn, the Zurich Opera House, Theater Basel, the Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine and the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam.

Her close working partnership with the video artist Chris Kondek has taken her to Theater Basel, the Zurich Opera House and the Schauspielhaus Zurich, and also to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg for Falk Richter’s production of David Bowie and Enda Walsh’s musical Lazarus. With Chris Kondek and Christiane Kühl’s group doublelucky productions she has developed performances such as YOU ARE OUT THERE (2017) and The Hairs Of Your Head Are Numbered (2018), which toured both nationally and internationally.

In the field of opera, she has worked on pieces such as Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, Handel’s Serse, Wagner’s Lohengrin and Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre. Together with Tabea Rothfuchs she created the video design for Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s extraordinary concert programme Les Adieux.

Alongside her work in theatre Ruth Stofer pursues her own artistic work, often in collaboration with her twin sister Rebecca as the artistic duo stofer & stofer. In 2017 the duo created the multimedia performance Guts Reloaded with Veronica Rodriguez, touring it to New York, Chicago and Detroit. stofer & stofer has participated in numerous exhibitions both at home and abroad, and has won grants and studio residencies in Paris and Chicago.