Claudia Fischer lives and works in Lisbon and in Jena. She studied English and Russian linguistics and literature at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow, photography at the Kent College of Art and Design, Rochester and at the Bournemouth College of Art and Design, photography and media art at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst – Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig. She has Master of Fine Art at the Bauhaus University, Weimar and Brookes University Oxford.