Maria Luigia Gioffrè b.1990), is an artist working across various disciplines: performing arts, images, curating, writing. She is PhD researcher (2024-27) in ‘Theatre of Reality: Performing Arts and New Media’ at Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica in Rome, Italy, where she also teaches Dance Criticism. Her PhD is receiving a fellowship co-funded by Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti of Turin and Teatro Stabile di Torino - National Theatre.
Between 2025 and 2026 she is visiting PhD at Royal Conservatoire, Antwerp, and at Angewandte Performance Lab, Vienna.
Drawing on a situated practice, her research does explore micro-gestures, timing and movement writing examining ways how cultural vocabularies drawn from daily life, commercial arenas, cultural narratives and speculative futures intersect with theatricality.
Her work tends to generate intimate performative landscapes that evolve in various media formats, maintaining a commitment to an embodied and affective perspective.
She is founder and performance curator of In-ruins residency, in collaboration with Fondazione Elpis, Milan, and UCL London.
She is recipient artist produced by BJCEM - Biennale des Jeune Créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranee for Contested Desires - Creative Europe (2024-2026), exploring decolonial artistic practices in heritage sites and museums.
As a visual artist, performer, theatre director and researcher she presented in several both institutional and independent spaces, including: Henry Moore Foundation (UK, 2026); Museo Nazionale della Scienza e Tecnologia (Italy, 2025); Great North Museum (UK, 2025); Kunstfort (NL, 2025); Herengracht 401 Foundation (NL, 2025); Pro Progressione (Hungary, 2025); Fondazione Imago Mundi (2025); SUMAC Space (DE, 2024); Tanzquartier DOC+ (AT, 2025); Primavera dei Teatri (Italy, 2024); La Biennale di Venezia (Italy, 2023); Santarcangelo Festival (Italy, 2022); Fabbrica del Vapore (Italy, 2019); Tate Modern Exchange (UK, 2018).
She holds an MA in Contemporary Photography-Practices and Philosophies from Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London, where she graduated in 2017. She has been winner of Celeste Prize for installation, sculpture and peformance in 2017; winner of Art for Environment Prize 2018; highlighted as artists upon which to invest by Exibart in 2019; selected by Aesthetica Art Prize 2019; and finalist theatre director under 35 at La Biennale di Venezia in 2023.
Maria Luigia’s practice appears mentioned in journals, books, research magazines, as well as mentioned in academic archives and academic thesis from institutions among which Reinwart Academy, Amsterdam, archive of Zurcher Hochschule der Kunste in Switzerland; IO01 Umanesimo Tecnologico (ed. studium); L’autoscatto nella Fotografia Contemporanea (ed. Rubettino) and others.
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