Maria Luigia Gioffrè (b.1990), is an artist-researcher working across and integrating various disciplines: performing arts, images, curating, writing. She is PhD (2024-27) in ‘Theatre of Reality: Performing Arts and New Media’ at Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica in Rome, Italy, where she also teached 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 affiliated at Royal Conservatoire, Antwerp, and at Angewandte Performance Lab, Vienna.
She holds a BA in Political Science, a three-year professional diploma in Photography and a Master’s Degree in ‘Contemporary Photography: Practices and Philosophies’ from Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London, where she graduated with merit in 2017. Among others, she studied and attended trainings with Armando Punzo (Alta Formazione, Volterra, 2023); Claudia Castellucci (Scuola Conia, Societas, Cesena, 2022-24); Barbara Bonriposi (Scuola d’Azione, Teatro Stabile Torino, 2018-19); DRIFT International ZU-UK Theatre Company - Immersive Performance and Participatory Theatre (2017); Biennale Dance College 2016 with Boris Charmatz and Olivia Grandville.
Drawing on a situated practice, her research explores micro-gestures, timing and movement-writing stressing 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 critical and philosophical commitment to an embodied and affectively mediated perspective.
She is founder and performance curator of In-ruins, a residency platform programme 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); Tanzquartier Wien DOC+ (AT, 2025 and 2026); Kunstfort (NL, 2025); Herengracht 401 Foundation (NL, 2025); Pro Progressione (Hungary, 2025); Fondazione Imago Mundi (2025); SUMAC Space (DE, 2024); Primavera dei Teatri (Italy, 2024); La Biennale di Venezia (Italy, 2023); BASE Milano (Italy, 2023); Santarcangelo Festival (Italy, 2022); Fabbrica del Vapore (Italy, 2019); Tate Modern - Tate Exchange (UK, 2017 and 2018); Block Universe Festival / Young In Hong, Royal Academy of Arts (UK, 2017); Art Night London & Whitechapel Gallery (UK, 2017).
She has been winner of Celeste Prize for installation, sculpture and peformance in 2017; winner of Art for Environment Prize 2018; selected performance artist at Arte Laguna Prize in 2018; highlighted as artists upon which to invest by Exibart in 2019; selected artist by Aesthetica Art Prize 2019. In 2023 she has been selected as finalist theatre director under 35 at La Biennale di Venezia, where she presented her work for stage ‘After Party’.
Maria Luigia’s practice does appear 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 II volume (ed. Rubettino) and others.
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