born in Katowice (PL), in the zodiac sign Libra, with ascendant Libra and moon in Scorpio. In 2011, she completed her diploma in design and fine arts, specialising in graphics, at the T. Kantor Art High School and graduated in stage and costume design at the HfBK Dresden in 2017. This was followed by a permanent position at the Münchner Kammerspiele, where she worked as best girl from 2017 to 2020 with Philippe Quesne, Trajal Harrell, Florentina Holzinger, Susanne Kennedy, Marta Górnicka, Alexander Giesche and Henrike Iglesias, among others. Her work as a freelance visual designer for theatre and film has taken her to venues such as the Münchner Kammerspiele, Schauspiel Dortmund, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Theater Augsburg, TJG Dresden, Festspielhaus Hellerau and the Gorki Theatre. She feels most comfortable somewhere between free art and enabling technical madness.
is a Germanist, translator and editor. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich with a research project on Max Bense’s cybernetic poetry. Her dissertation ‘Kathrin Rögglas Szeno-Graphien der Gegenwart. Forms and Methods of a Performative Prose (1995-2016)’ will soon be published by De Gruyter. Coppola’s research interests lie in the performativity of writing processes, both in prose and poetry, with a focus on the question of artificiality. She is currently editing the first Italian translation of Hubert Fichte’s novel Forschungsbericht (1981) for IISF Press. Since 2017 she has been curating radio and translation projects for the Goethe Institute in Naples and in 2020 won the ‘Kunst Radio-Radio Kunst’ competition organised by Radio Ö1 Vienna with an adaptation of ‘Aus der Fremde’ (1981) by Ernst Jandl.
is a Texas-born choreographer, performer, dancer, musician, media maker and all-round nonsense person living in Dresden and Berlin. She has created work for a variety of spaces including theatres, galleries, off-spaces, the internet and most recently her furniture. Her work is interdisciplinary but finds its roots in the lived experiences of the body. She is interested in process-orientated art that reveals the complex ecologies of humans and non-humans, the mathematical logic of absurdity and the profound compassion that can be found through rituals of failure.
born in Munich, has lived in Berlin since 2014. He is a multidisciplinary artist who works as a composer, performer, theatre director, filmmaker, curator and programmer. His academic background includes a bachelor’s degree in composition with Wolfgang Rihm at the Karlsruhe University of Music and at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva. He completed his master’s degree with Manos Tsangaris at the Dresden University of Music. His early works include transmedia performances such as ‘NeueMusik24’, ‘Deutsch-Afrika’ (2014) for chamber orchestra with computerised voices and ‘Love Me’ (2016) for ensemble and 100 masks. His most recent works include the 360° audio mockumentary with visuals ‘Moonbreaker 2121’, which is part of the permanent programme of the Zeiss-Großplanetarium in Berlin; in 2023, his solo opera ‘Atlantide Acide’ premiered in Paris, in which the inside of the stomach is miked using a nasogastric probe. In 2024, his road traffic opera ‘RÜBER’ was performed with great success at the Munich Biennale for Music Theatre, in which 10 performers played for nine days, eight hours a day in the streets of Munich to an audience inside a moving limousine.
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grew up near Venice, studied Applied Theatre Studies at JLU Giessen and currently lives in Frankfurt am Main. Her artistic work unfolds in a practice at the interface between theatre, text and textiles. She devotes herself to alternative life models, anti-heroes and the deciphering of reality from a female perspective. In the 2023/24 season, she wrote and directed the stage play “Bettina” at the Giessen City Theatre. For the festival “Politik im Freien Theater 2022”, she realised the live performance “that there then, not now here past” with Antonia Beeskow and Aran Kleebaur. She was artistic co-director of the IMPLANTIEREN 2022/23 festival and has worked regularly as a performer and costume designer for international productions since 2016, including for choreographers Jerôme Bel and Tino Sehgal. Her first book “tressed/Desserts” – in collaboration with the Berlin author and artist Olga Hohmann – was published by windpark books in 2024.
RHO is a collective of artists founded in 2017. It dispenses with personal proper names and sees itself as a community for the implementation of creative concepts at the interface of various professions such as visual arts, theatre and experimental music.
RHO’s work focusses on immersive spatial installations that address all the senses in order to playfully examine existing structures of physical, psychological and social spaces and their perception. A central aspect here is the physical experience, which is achieved through the choreography of light, shadow, sounds and smells as well as performative elements.
RHO also collaborates with other collectives, including the performance duo Studio Beisel and currently the collective Dritte Degeneration Ost. As part of the Karl Sczuka Prize 2021, RHO and the vocal ensemble Γλώσσα (Glossa) received the “International Research Grant 2022”, jointly organised by the Donaueschingen Music Festival and the Goethe-Institut, for their jointly produced audio piece “Cholera – I though I should never speak again”.
is a freelance composer, director and performer based in Berlin. He is interested in the magic of things (objects and figures), identity as an art form and the exploration of musical boundaries. In addition to his artistic work, he can also be found as Captain Brasko on the world’s oceans, on the beach volleyball court, apnoea diving and sometimes as president of a motorbike gang.
In addition to various musical projects (such as Ted Brasko, Boh Vajec Orchestra, Zei & Brasko, Krasny, Asche), he is the founder of the composers’ collective “Stage Music” and the German-Czech-Russian object theatre collective KHWOSHCH.
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born in Düsseldorf in 1992, studied Archaeology at the University of Cologne and Applied Theatre Studies at Justus Liebig University Giessen from 2013 to 2022, as well as a second Master’s degree in ‘Sound and Reality’ at the Institute for Music and Media Düsseldorf in 2021. In 2023, she was awarded the North Rhine-Westphalia State Prize in the music category.
She has been working as a performer, sound designer and DJ in the independent scene since 2017 and is responsible for radio plays, podcasts, installations and experimental films. She also runs workshops on miking and sound design and writes about female composers and female* sound artists for the fanzine ‘grapefruits.online’, among others.
In her work, she is interested in sampling, acousmatics, fragmentation and noise as hauntological narrative methods and atmospheric, affirmative recording through different media as well as the archive as an artistic form. She sees her artistic research area at the interface between sound, text and performance.
works as a freelance artist at the crossroads of conceptualisation, aesthetic research and artistic intervention. Recurring forms of work are play development, specifics and immersive spatial installations. As a director, she works at the interface between theatre, installation and performance.
She realises productions in the independent scene and at municipal theatres and develops educational theatre formats. In addition to her theatre work, she regularly works with people with disabilities.
born 1987 on the Baltic Sea, works as a musician, composer for theatre music and performer with a focus on figure, material and object theatre as well as musical exploration of poetic texts. She has received musical training and further education from Erika Stucky, Christian Zehnder, Sidsel Endresen, Renata Rosa, Ingrid Hammer, Ursula Scribano, Richard Koch, Arkady Shilkloper and Sergey Starostin, among others.
She is a founding member of the collective ‘Dritte Degeneration Ost’, as well as the Prague-Berlin music and object theatre ensemble KHWOSHCH, whose multi-award-winning production DINOPERA has been shown on German and Czech stages such as the Prague State Opera and the at.tension! Festival has been shown. To date, four further productions have been created in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. With the interdisciplinary band project HUND, she develops performative concert formats with objects, light installations and percussion robots. From 2017 to last year, she toured with the band ‘my sister grenadine’ with over 350 concerts in Germany, the Czech Republic, France, Austria and Switzerland and released two albums on the Solaris Empire label.
