Claudia von Funcke is a German sculptor and photographer based in Berlin. She graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1995 followed by a DAAD scholarship at the Architectural Association in London. She received the ART IN STEEL prize (Kolloquium Nordrhein-Westfalen), the Jutta-Cuny-Franz Memorial Award for Sculpture in Glass and in 2011 a residency in Künstlerdorf Schöppingen/D for Art and Sciences. Her work is freely roaming amongst the diverse fields of perceptual theory, brain research, molecular biology, geophysics and contemporary architecture.