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.
is a theatre director, actor and lighting designer. He was already responsible for his own theatre works during his school days and gained his first experience as an actor in film and television with Axel Ranisch, among others. After working as an assistant director, he began studying applied theatre studies in Giessen. He has worked as a lighting designer and video artist for Kim Willems and Ute Lemper, among others. He is co-founder of the light art collective GODALIGHT and the theatre collective SAILOR TUNE. He regularly collaborates with various artists and collectives, including ‘Frankfurter Hauptschule’, KHWOSHCH, ‘haufen’, PINSKER+BERNHARDT, Chiara Marcassa and Gerd Franz Triebenecker.
is a freelance artist and founding member of the artist duo ‘studio beisel’. His work ranges between experimental play development, immersive multimedia installations and visual art.
He studied communication design at the FH Munich, applied theatre studies in Gießen and received training in stage design and acting at the Junges Landestheater Bayern (JLTB). He has been invited to several festivals with ‘studio beisel’ (Mannheim Schiller Festival, Fast Forward Festival for Young European Directors, Hessische Theatertage). In 2021, the solo exhibition ‘St.Beisel’ opened at the Kunsthalle Gießen.
During his studies, he founded the light collective GODALIGHT together with Frithjof Gawenda and developed the pandemic radio ‘Wilsonstrasse.FM’ together with Antonia Beeskow. In 2022 he co-founded the theatre collective ‘SAILOR TUNE’. Since 2023 he has been working as a freelancer for the sculptor Gereon Krebber (Düsseldorf Art Academy) in Cologne.
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born in 1995 as a Slovakian citizen, works as a composer and multi-instrumentalist in the fields of classical, popular and experimental music. His most important influences include Frank Zappa, Béla Bartók, György Ligeti, Dmitri Shostakovich as well as the French bands Poil Ueda and Chromb! and the Slovakian bands Ali Ibn Rachid and Collegium Musicum.
He combines music with Slovakian and Czech slam poetry in solo performances under the pseudonym Boh Vajec.
In 2021, he released a debut EP with his band ‘God and Eve’ and took second place in the GENERACE 2021 composition competition at the Leoš Janáček International Music Festival.
born 1997 in Berlin, studied theatre studies at the FU Berlin and at the University of Hildesheim. Her research focused on the interface between theatre and electronic music culture and the staging of intoxication.
From 2018, she worked as a student assistant in the field of audience development and communication. This was followed by various assistant directing positions with actors from the independent theatre scene, including Turbo Pascal, DieOrdnungDerDinge and Franziska Seeberg. Since 2022, she has been working permanently with director Thorsten Lensing, whose last production ‘Verrückt nach Trost’ premiered at the 2022 Salzburg Festival. Together with Benjamin Eggers-Domsky, she developed the performative live radio play ‘Dream Baby Dream – Ein Sommernachtstanz’. She also works as an author for audio description in the theatre and developed scripts for the Berliner Schaubühne and the Berliner Theater an der Parkaue. She is also active as a DJ in the Berlin collective R27.
is a bilingual writer living in London who focuses on poetry, essays and opera libretti. He has published two books of poetry in Croatia (“Listing Thing” 2013, “Dropdown Menu” 2015) and has had two operas performed at the Royal Opera House in London, UK (“Colony” 2015, “Greenland” 2015). Aleksandar holds an MA in Opera Writing from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and has been awarded two poetry prizes – the Ulaznica Prize, Serbia 2011, and the Fernando Pessoa Prize, Croatia 2012.
