Maria Luigia Gioffrè, 1990, is an artist and PhD researcher using body as activator in various disciplines: performing arts, images, curating and writing. Her practice questions representation by expanding and eroding historical references from cultural narratives, myths and uncertain futures into intimate performative landscapes that evolve in various media formats.

Centering on the body in motion, her research explores gestures and physical expressions examining ways how movement vocabularies drawn from daily life and commercial arenas intersect with those from artistic languages. 






 
For FULL CV and ENQUIRIES/ 
info@marialuigiagioffrestudio.org

Founder and artistic co-direction at
In-ruins



EDUCATION

2024 -2027
PhD practice-based XL cycle 
“Il teatro della realtà: arti performative e nuovi media” 
Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica Silvio’Amico, IT
fellowship
National Theatre - Teatro Stabile Torino
Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino

Nov 2025 - Feb 2026
Visiting PhD 
Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, BG
CREATIE Research Lab


2015-2017
Master’s Degree
Contemporary Photography: Practices and Philosophies
University of Arts London,
Central Saint Martins, UK 


TEACHING 

2024/25 - 2025/26 
Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica Silvio D’Amico, IT
Dance - Analysis of the choreographic text
course of study: MA Critical Journalism 



extra-academic education


Scuola Cònia, directed by Claudia Castellucci and Joe Kellher, Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Cesena, IT (2022-2024); 

Masterclass Alta Formazione with Compagnia della Fortezza, directed by Armando Punzo, Volterra, IT (2023)

Scuola d’azione, directed by Barbara Bonriposi (2014-2018)

Emerging Artists Residency intensive professional development programme “DRIFT International” ZU-UK Theatre Company - Immersive Performance and Participatory Theatre (2017) 

Educational Program, Magnum Photos, Paris, FR (2013)

Scholarship - Spazio Labò - Photo New York, US (2013)

 

2026

EXHIBITION
Xarkis Festival, Larnaka 2030 Capital of Culture, Cyprus (upcoming)

CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTION
Analogue vs. Digital Human feat. Art - JAMU
Theatre Faculty of Janáček Academy of Performing Arts
Brno, Czech Republic (upcoming)

PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH-WORKSHOP 
Scoring Scrolling: an investigation on choreographic patterns on Tik Tok
NextDoors 2026
Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, Belgium (upcoming)

CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTION
“The Drifting Trace: Photography as Sculptural Trace of Social Media Theatricality” within the symposium “Photographic Objecthood, Construction, Presence and the Sculptural Encounter” 
Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds, UK (upcoming)

PERFORMANCE/DIRECTION
“Liturgia Posturale” - second study performance PhD practical research 
La Pelanda, Rome, IT (upcoming)
Comune di Roma Capitale, Mattatoio, Palaexpo
production: Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica Silvio d’Amico, Rome, IT
fellowship: Accademia Albertina Belle Arti di Torino
Teatro Stabile di Torino - National Theatre 


2025

PERFORMANCE FOR STAGE/THEATRE DIRECTION 
‘Veronica’ - first study performance PhD practical research
Teatro Studio E. Duse, Rome, IT
production: Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica Silvio d’Amico, Rome, IT 
coproduction: Resextensa - Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza, Bari, IT
fellowship: Accademia Albertina Belle Arti di Torino
Teatro Stabile di Torino - National Theatre

PUBLICATION 
n.6/2025 IO01 Umanesimo Tecnologico, academic journal, Accademia Belle Arti Santa Giulia, ed. Studium

AWARD
Dance Rewrite 2025 - Journalism Art and Research 
promoted by Campadidanza Dance Magazine in collaboration with AIRDanza – Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sulla Danza e con ANCT – Associazione Nazionale dei Critici di Teatro, IT

PERFORMANCE
‘Waiting Wars’ by Maria Luigia Gioffrè in dialogue with ‘I have a crush on the King’s Daughter’ by Giulia Currà x ‘Osmosis’ , curated by All-Fad Milan
Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia
Milan, IT 

CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTION
“En plein temporalities: expanded archaeology between digital agorà and social performativity”
within the conference Oati - Open Air Theatres in Italy  “Open Air Theatre in Italy from the Ancients to Contemporary – Dramaturgy, Function, Performing, Acting, Directing” Università degli Studi di Trieste, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Archaeological Park of Segesta, IT

EXHIBITION 
Contested Desires, Great North Museum
produced by BJCEM - Biennale des Jeune créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranee, d6 Culture, Herengracht 401 Foundation, Kunstfort
UK partners: National Lottery Heritage Fund, Paul Hamyl Foundation, Sangini, Tyne Theatre & Opera House, Community Foundation North Easth, Art Council of England.
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 

TALK
Let’s Talk About Decolonisation
The Word, National Centre for the Written Word, 
South Shields, UK 

VISITING RESEARCH
‘Remote Roma’ by Stefan Kaegi/ Rimini Prokoll, Villa Massimo, Cranpi, Goethe Institut, Rome, IT

SPOKEN POETRY PRODUCTION (digital production) 
‘Waiting Wars’ chapter II
produced by BJCEM - Biennale des Jeune créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranee, IT/Belgium
Pro Progressione, Budapest, Hungary

ARTIST RESIDENCY + PERFORMANCE
“Waiting Wars” chapter I
Kunstfort, Amsterdam Defence Line Unesco World Heritage Site
in partner with Herengracht401 Foundation and Creative Court
Vijfhuizen, Amsterdam, NL

TALK
‘Affettato’
within the project ‘If you move something happens’ by Giulia Currà,
winner of Italian Council - Ministry of Italian Culture ed.XIII 
Casa Cicca Museum, Milan, IT

SELECTED ARTIST
Present is The New Future
Fondazione Imago Mundi, IT

RESEARCH-in-progress PRESENTATION
Tanzquartier Wien DOC+ , Wien, AT



2024

SELECTED WINNER ARTIST PROJECT FOR ITALY
Contested Desires Constructive Dialogues
funded by Creative Europe 
Partners: D6:EU and Xarkis (Cyprus), Interarts and La Bonne (Spain), H401 and Creative Court (Netherlands), MUNHAC (Portugal), Pro Progressione (Hungary), La Fabrique (Tunisia), BJCEM Biennale des jeunes créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (Belgium), Museo delle Civiltà and Museo Egizio (Italy) . D6 Culture in Transit (United Kingdom), European Capital of Culture Larnaka 2030 and The Art History and Theory Lab of the Cyprus University of Technology


PERFORMANCE
Small Talk
Costellazioni Rassegna Teatrale, with the support of Città di Torino and MiC Italia, Turin, IT


PERFORMANCE PREVIEW
Small Talk
SUMAC Space, Berlin, DE


PERFORMANCE FOR STAGE
After Party, for stage 
Primavera dei Teatri Festival, Castrovillari, IT


PERFORMANCE
After Party, site specific
Microonde Fest, Villa Rey, Associazione Bastione, Turin, IT 

CURATING
Simposio 39 Nord 16 Est
Fondazione Elpis, Milan, IT

TALK
Desireside, modelli transdisciplinari di residenze artistiche
BASE Milano, IT

ESSAY PUBLICATION
“Le squartatrici di cielo: nei ricordi di un passato che non esiste ed è per sempre”
in Altremuse  vol. 01

TALK
If you move, something happens -  roundtable
led by artist Giulia Currà, recipient project research grant Italian Council Ministry of Culture
XIII edition 2024

OPEN STUDIO 
MOSSA Turin/Berlin, Imbarchino del Valentino, with the support of Città di Torino, Turin, IT

OPEN STUDIO
Casa prefabbricata dalla forma snella, Milan, IT


2023

AWARD
La Biennale di Venezia, Biennale Teatro 2023 
Finalist theatre director under 35 

ARTIST RESIDENCY
BASE Milano
Milan, IT

TALK
Supercondominio 5
curated by Giulia Colletti, Laura Lecce and Cripta747
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, IT

ARTIST RESIDENCY and EXHIBITION
Flashback Habitat, Flashback Art Fair - Living Rooms
Turin, IT

TALK
In-ruins: la residenza d’artista come ponte tra archeologia e contemporaneo
Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, IT

TALK
Arte e Spazio Pubblico
Divago Festival in collaboration with Pinksummergallery, Genova, IT

PUBLICATION
Endless Residency Osservatorio sulla Mobilità Artistica, curated by Giulio Verago and Caterina Angelucci, edited by Postmediabooks

PUBLICATION (editor/curator)
Archivalia, edited by In-ruins
presented at Paint It Black (Turin,IT, April) and Casa degli Artisti (Milan,IT, June)


2022

TALK 
Mobility Webinar: UK-EU Flows in the visual arts
On the Move co-funded by European Union
with: Veronka Kovder (moderator) and Alessio Antoniolli (Gaswork London & Triangle Network); Theodore Ereira-Guyer (visual artist); Paolo Mele (Kora/Ramdom Association/STARE);  Maria Luigia Gioffre (artist and director In-ruins)

PERFORMANCE FOR STAGE
Parcae, site specific
Casa del Cinema di Roma, Calabria Film Commission in partnership with
Festival del Cinema di Roma, IT

Primavera dei Teatri, Castello Aragonese, Castrovillari, IT

Parcae, for stage preview
Armonie d’Arte Festival, Teatro Comunale di Soverato, IT


TALK
Mobilità artistica e cura in aree archeologiche e di interesse storico
curated by Endless Residency and In-ruins
with: Collezione Maramotti, Museo Nazionale Etrusco Villa Giulia Roma,
Castello San Basilio, Victoria Square Project (roundtable), online, funded
by Italian Council research grant X ed.


PRODUCTION ARTIST RESIDENCY
Primavera dei Teatri
Castello Aragonese, Castrovillari, IT

RESEARCH ARTIST RESIDENCY
Santarcangelo dei Teatri, Santarcangelo Festival
Teatro Il lavatoio, Santarcangelo, IT


EXHIBITION
Wish you were here
Casa del Commiato, Bergamo, IT


PUBLICATION 
Singolare/Molteplice
Antologia a cura di Enzo Campi, Enea Roversi, ed. puntoacapoeditrice

PUBLICATION
Il Corpo Solitario Vol.III, L’autoscatto nella fotografia contemporanea
curated by Giorgio Bonomi, ed. Rubbettino


2021

RESEARCH ARTIST RESIDENCY
Domus Artist Residency
Galatina, IT

TALK
Schnittmenge
WalkinStudio, invited by Julia Krahn, Milan, IT

TALK
visiting artist for Fahrenheit  at  “Il Mulino di Amleto” theatre company, Turin, IT 

TALK ONLINE
In-ruins: esperienze di residenza artistica in contesti storico-archeologici 
curated by ViaFarini and Endless Residency in collaboration with Università
degli Studi di Bergamo and ICOM Italia

ONLINE  EXHIBITION/ Video screening
Maratona di Visione
curated by Superstudiolo, Bergamo, IT

PUBLICATION
Specie di Spazi. Atlante per l’esplorazione del contemporaneo
curated by students from master in Management delle Risorse Artistiche e Culturali Università IULM Milano, IT 

2020

ONLINE EXHIBITION
Significant Other 
curated by Dobroslawa Nowak


(covid-19 canceled)  EXHIBITION
Hildegard de Bingen:mystic body
curated by Roisin O’ Sullivan 
Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts, London, UK

ONLINE RESIDENCY
Il Crepaccio 
curated by Caroline Corbetta


SOLO EXHIBITION (closed due to Covid-19)
Memoria di un Giardino
MARCA Museo delle Arti, Catanzaro, IT
catalog: 
Memoria di un Giardino, MARCA Museo delle Arti; ed. SilvanaEditoriale


2019

AWARD Longlist
Aesthetica Art Prize

PUBLICATION
Future Now 
100 Contemporary Artists from Aesthetica Art Prize


EXHIBITION
From a Distant Proximity
Guler Sanat Galerisi in collaboration with Italian Embassy of Turkey
Ankara, TR


TALK
Art and Psyche: Conference IV The Illuminated Imagination
Conference contribution in collaboration with Central Saint Martins PhD candidate Sara Buoso
Pacifica Graduate Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, US

EXHIBITION
Performance Y Video
QUILAS, Quito Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Quito, Ecuador


PUBLICATION
222. Artisti Emergenti su cui investire
ed. Exibart curated by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi


OPEN STUDIO
CassataDrone
in collaboration with Goethe Institut
Palermo, IT

ARTIST RESIDENCY
The Workroom
Fattoria Vittadini, Milano Musei Civici, Fabbrica del Vapore, Studio Azzurro
Milan, IT

(bi-personal) EXHIBITION and PERFORMANCE
Do Not Disturb
curated by Emanuele Carlenzi, Hotel San Guido, Milan, IT


TALK
Artist in-conversation, arte e immaginazione nel processo artistico
ViaFarini, Milan, IT

OPEN STUDIO
ViaFarini, VIR Artist-in-residence
Milan, IT


EXHIBITION
12 Windows Alchimie Archetipiche
Fondazione Sassi, Matera, IT


2018

AWARD Winner
Art for Environment Residency Prize, Della Morte e Del Morire
Associazione Culturale Scompiglio, curated by Angel Moya Garcia in collaboration with Central Saint Martins, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, curated by Lucy Orta
Winner

ARTIST RESIDENCY
Della Morte e del Morire
Tenuta dello Scompiglio, Vorno, IT


AWARD Shortlist
Art for Environment Residency Prize, The Land We Live In
Hauser&Wirth, Somerset, in collaboration with Central Saint Martins, Centre for Sustainable Fashion curated by Lucy Orta


WORKSHOP TRAINER
Studio Complex, How to survive as artist in the metropolis
Tate Modern, London, UK


TALK
Unesco International Day Of Light Symposium
Chelsea College of Arts, University of Arts, London, UK


ARTIST RESIDENCY
In search of the darkness
Lumen Studios, Forestry Commission, Grizedale Sculpture, UK


EXHIBITION
Corpo a Corpo
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, invited by Unicatt Art History Department Milan, IT


COLLECTIVE PERFORMANCE
Being Together is Not Enough 
YVPA Collective, Five Years Gallery, London, UK


EXHIBITION
The Death of the Image and the Birth of Photography
Window Galleries, Central Saint Martins, London, UK


EXHIBITION
Missing Element
ArtLacuna, London, UK



2017

AWARD Winner 
Celeste Prize
First Prize for Installation, Sculpture and Performance section,
curated by Fatos Ustek
Winner


ARTIST RESIDENCY
ZU-UK - Contemporary Performance and Theatre Company
London, UK


COLLECTIVE PERFORMANCE
Venice International Performance Art Week
European Cultural Centre, Palazzo Mora, Venice, IT


EXHIBITION
Art Night London & Whitechapel Gallery
associate programme Lumen Studios 
curated by Fatos Ustek, London, UK


PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOP Trainer and PERFORMANCE STUDY
This is an art school
Tate Modern, Tate Exchange, London, UK


EXHIBITION
Show one Degree Show
Central Saint Martins, London, UK

PERFORMER
Block Universe Festival
Young Hi Hong 5:100 Pentagon
Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK


2016

EXHIBITION
La Fine dell’Universo
Crypt Gallery St Pancras, Lumen Studios, London, UK


PERFORMANCE
Zurich meets London, From Dada to Mental Health
curated by Zurich University of Arts and Cabaret Voltaire
London, UK


EXHIBITION
Thisisanartshow.jpg
Hornsey Town Hall Art Centre, London, UK


PERFORMER
La Biennale di Venezia | Biennale Danza 
performer in Levee des Conflicts, by Boris Charmatz and Olivia Grandville


EXHIBITION and auction
Art Auction 10th Year UAL - Sotheby’s
Lethaby Gallery, London, UK


EXHIBITION
Utsanga Asemic Writing Exhibition
Parco Nazionale Archeologico Scolacium, IT


ARTIST RESIDENCY
Lumen Studios
London, UK

PUBLICATION
Ramificazioni
curated by Simona Caramia ed. Rubbettino


2013

EXHIBITION
Hanasi Design Find Your Corner
curated by Ottavio Celestino
Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, IT