Voxi Bärenklau (born 1960) lives and works primarily in Vienna and Berlin as a visual artist. After finishing high school, he began as a painter and sculptor of kinetic sculptures with a synesthetic focus. From 1984 to 1990, he studied film at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach under Werner Nekes and Helmut Herbst. In 1991, he received a scholarship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. Since 1989, he has worked as a cinematographer for directors such as Helge Schneider and Christoph Schlingensief, with whom he collaborated closely until Schlingensief’s death in 2010. In 1999, he was the chief lighting technician on Martin Scorsese’s “Gangs of New York”. In 2000, he began working as a lighting and video designer for theater, including at Berlin’s Volksbühne. Under Kay Voges, he was the resident lighting designer at the Vienna Volkstheater. Today, he works as a director of photography, lighting, and video designer with artists such as Kay Voges, Karin Beier, Johan Simons, Jossi Wieler and Sebastian Hartmann. He teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Max Reinhardt Seminar.