Helge Leiberg was born in Dresden in 1954. After an apprenticeship in print image editing, he studied at the Academy of Art in Dresden from 1973 graduating in 1978. In 1979 he founded a painters’ band together with A. R. Penck and combined various media in his art, comprising new music, free jazz, dance and film. In 1984 he lost his GDR citizenship and moved to West Berlin. In the 1990s he created performances, collaborating at times with author Christa Wolf. In 2013 he was awarded the Brandenburg Art Prize and in 2023 the honorary prize of the prime minister of the State of Brandenburg for his life´s work. Leiberg lives and works in Berlin and the Oderbruch (Brandenburg).