Sabine Bürger studied visual art at Düsseldorf Art Academy with Professor Ulrich Erben and Professor Günther Uecker, becoming a 'Meisterschüler'.
In 1986 she was awarded a grant by DAAD to study at the Royal College of Art in London where she continued to live for six years, beginning an exploration of the ‚self' in performance art and photography.
From the late 1990s onwards she exhibited her black and white photography widely, including at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. Her work also featured as cover stories in the German photographic magazines Photonews and Schwarzweiss.
Since 2007 she has been concentrating on video, frequently exploring the interface between the visual and sound. She has worked with different musicians on various projects resulting in collaborations with Heiner Goebbels (D), William Basinski (US), Machinefabriek (NL), Steve Roden (US), and Svarte Greiner (NO), amongst others. Neander's Hollow, with Anne Chris Bakker (NL), was shown at Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf in 2018.
She has also produced several semi-documentary videos, including Great Expectations, a portrait of the Wisbech & Fenland Museum/UK, which Bürger has presented in Arles, Southern France, and at a conference held at the British Museum and SOAS University of London.
Her most recent collaboration with a musician, Apparition Paintings, a 7-channel video with David Toop (GB), was awarded a City Artist Prize in 2023 by Kultursekretariat North Rhine-Westphalia.
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