Herma Auguste Wittstock (born 1977 in

Peine Peine (; Eastphalian: ''Paane'') is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, capital of the district Peine. It is situated on the river Fuhse and the Mittellandkanal, approximately west of Braunschweig, and east of Hanover. History A deed from 11 ...

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) is a German

performance art Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...

ist. She lives in

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. Wittstock has been compared to

Marina Abramović Marina Abramović ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, feminist art, the relationship between the performer and audienc ...

in including pain and body exploitation in her work. Wittstock studied Fine Arts at

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University of Art from 1999 to 2004 with professors Mara Mattuschka, performance artist

and film maker

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. She is a member of Independent Performance Group (IPG). Among Wittstock's performances is ''Counting'', previously ''Counting Lesson'', which involves counting of hairs on a person's head.

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External links

Herma Auguste Performance Art
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