Born in Hamburg, where she trained as a typesetter and repro photographer, and as a dancer and dance teacher with Erika Klütz (Wigman student and expressive dancer).
She worked as a typesetter and graphic designer for publishing houses and advertising agencies, and as a dance teacher at the Triade in Hamburg and in Berlin, among other places.
In 1991 she moved to Berlin and founded the dance company "Chaos und Zufall", which presented the piece "Spiegel" at the Pfefferberg in 1993. In 1994 she founded the dance school DOCK 11 in Prenzlauer Berg. 1995 DOCK 11 expanded with hall 2, 1996 with the theater hall, 2015 with hall 3 and 2022 with hall 4. Today DOCK 11 is a place for production, presentation and pedagogy with a focus on dance on 1100 sqm.
In 1999, they involved Wibke Janssen in DOCK 11, who had been a freelancer since 1994.
In 2005, Wibke Janssen and Kirsten Seeligmüller received the Academy of the Arts of Berlin's Förderpreis für Darstellende Kunst.
In 2006 Kirsten Seeligmüller was involved in the development of the "Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz - Pilotprojekt Tanzplan Berlin" as well as in two laboratories, which took place in the context of the concept development. "In Principle Dance Technique".
In 2009 Wibke Janssen and Kirsten Seeligmüller opened EDEN***** in Pankow, a second location with production studios, an artists' pension and a large garden.
According to Kirsten Seeligmüller's ideas, numerous funded and unfunded projects with children, teenagers and adult dancers as well as amateurs and professionals could already be realized, such as and "Atem und Herz" 2014/2015.
The project she realized in 2015, "Verzweigungen - erlebbare Tanzgeschichte" (Branches - Dance History to be Experienced), is one of a series of dance history projects that shed light on modern dance at the beginning of the 19th century in Europe. A special focus is on emigration and flight of German expressive dancers.
Since 2020, DOCK 11 has received concept funding from the Berlin Senate. In 2020, she resigned as managing director of the accounting company DOCK Art, whereupon Wibke Janssen stopped paying Kirsten Seeligmüller fees as artistic director for digital art and cultural education.
In 2021, Kirsten Seeligmüller founded the DOCKdigital LAB. A network of artists from many different genres, movement researchers, system, 3D, game and sound designers emerged. Projects were created, residency programs and festivals took place.
Since 2021 she is working together with Suse Tietjen, Ritu Mittal, Maria Gibert in the archive of Erika Klütz. In various projects they develop digital formats or card games together to bring the traces of Ms. Klütz found in the archive and remembered in the bodies back into the bodies and discourse of today.