
Katharina Haverich works at the intersection of media and theatre under the influence of dreams.
As a conceptual performance and media artist, she stages sequences in digital and physical spaces. In recent years, she has been designing and releasing virtual worlds, which she uses for artistic explorations with social and political questions at their core.
Katharina Haverich co-founded the Virtual Club of Dangerous Women, unreal.theater and Radikale Töchter. She has worked with Zentrum für Politische Schönheit, Emilio García Wehbi & Maricel Álvarez, Letzte Generation and internil.
Her work has been presented at House of Electronic Arts (Basel, Switzerland), Chicago Virtual Arts Museum (U.S.), Deutsches Museum Nürnberg (Nuremberg, Germany), fleetinsel Rundgang (Hamburg, Germany), Embodied Realms Festival (Poznań, Poland), Campfire (Skövde, Sweden), Goethe Institute and in Berlin at Keller Mareschstr 15, Flutgraben, Vollgutlager and Kühlhaus during Berlin Art Week, at re:publica and A Maze Festival. Notable collaborations include presentations at Teatro El Milagro (Mexico-City, Mexico), Theaterdiscounter Berlin, Hebbel-am-Ufer Berlin, Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Akademie der Künste Berlin.
From 2022-25, she was a part-time lecturer for "Artistic Practice in the Metaverse" at Berlin University of the arts. Since 2022, she has been working on her long-term project "Brecht into the Metaverse", in which she focusses on experimenting with forms of audience engagement to understand the potential of activation through the use of new media. In 2024, she founded the Berlin School of VR (Virtual Reality) to bring Virtual Reality literacy to a broad range of learners.
Katharina Haverich trained with The Wooster Group, Tania Bruguera and Nevin Aladağ. She holds a B.A. in Theatre and Professional Practice from Coventry University (England) and an M.A. in Theatre Studies from Freie Universität Berlin.