ABOUT
Education
2021-2024 / Master of Arts / Critical Dance Studies / Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Free University Berlin
2023-2024 / MFA Live Art Forms / Class: Johannes Paul Raether, Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg
2019-2022 / BA Contemporary Dance, Choreography, Pedagogy / Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna (MUK)
2015-2018 / Bachelor of Arts / Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Media Science and Communication (IfKW), Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Guest student
2022-2023 / New Media Class / University of the Arts Berlin (UdK)
2020-2021 / Theatre & Fine Arts / Universität für angewandte Kunst Vienna
2017-2018 / Documentary Film Directing / Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen Munich (HFF)
Grants & Residencies
2026 / Dictée / Cultural Department of the City of Vienna (MA 7)
2026 / Dictée / Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport (BMWKMS)
2025 / TURBO Research Residency / PART International Art Residency Austria Praterateliers, ImPulsTanz Festival Vienna
2025 / Dictée / Residency / im_Flieger Vienna
2025 / PARASOL Ensemble / Tanzquartier Vienna
2024 / STRESSTEST / Duo work and research grant with Deva Schubert / Dock 20 Museum Lustenau, X-Mak, Druckwerk, Perrrformat Zurich
2024 / STRESSTEST / Duo travel and mobility grant with Deva Schubert / Culture Moves Europe
2023 / Betray your tongue / Residency / Zentralwäscherei Zurich
2022 / I hear you. But don’t / NPN-Stepping Out / Nationales Performance Netz Deutschland
2022 / Lab of endearment / Handle with care Residency / brut Vienna
2022 / Tanz digital / iti Germany, Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin
2022 / DanceHack: Dance and technology / TaikaBox Oulu Theatre Finland
Works
2025 / STRESSTEST / Duo with Deva Schubert / Perrrformat Festival Zurich (CH)
2025 / STRESSTEST / Duo with Deva Schubert / Dock20 museum for contemporary art Lustenau 2025 / STRESSTEST (AT)
2025 / Scores to Stress / Duo with Deva Schubert / Exgirlfriend Gallery Berlin (DE)
2025 / Relapse / Performer for Deva Schubert / Lothringer 13 Gallery Munich (DE)
2025 / Dictée / Performative-Reading / Kultursommer Vienna (AT)
2025 / Glitch Choir / Performer for Deva Schubert / Bärenzwinger Gallery Berlin
2025 / Mouth at each end / Performer for PARASOL Ensemble, Direction: Alex Franz Zehetbauer / Tanzquartier Wien (AT)
2024 / Glitch Choir / Performer for Deva Schubert / mumok - museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien, ImPulsTanz Festival Vienna (AT)
2024 / Silent Lovers / Dramaturgy for Luca Bonamore / Schauspielhaus, ImPulsTanz Festival Vienna (AT)
2024 / Megaphone / Concéntrico: International Festival of Architecture and Design Logrõno (ES)
2024 / Betray your tongue / Gallery Sehsaal Vienna (AT)
2024 / Glitch Choir / Performer for Deva Schubert / Sophiensaele, Tanztage Berlin (DE)
2023 / Betray your tongue / Zentralwäscherei Zurich (CH)
2023 / Betray your tongue / emergent spaces, ACUD MACHT NEU Berlin (DE)
2023 / Betray your tongue / Akademie der Künste Berlin (DE)
2022 / I hear you. But don’t / Duo with Luca Bonamore / Gallery Studio Hannibal Berlin (DE)
2022 / Shedding into Sappho’s Skin / Auftakt Festival, Kulturbunker Cologne (DE)
2022 / Lab of endearment / Duo with Luca Bonamore / imagetanz Festival, brut Vienna (AT)
2021 / super-entangled / Im Achten Herum Festival, Atelier PublicArtists Vienna (AT)
2021 / super-entangled / ReaLIGN Art and Science, Garage Grande Vienna (AT)
2021 / SBS320. Sollbruchstücke / Highbrow Institute, Art Garage Vienna (AT)
2021 / Geschwür / Crime scenes of the NSU murders Nuremberg (DE)
Francesca Ferrari (*1995) is a German-Sicilian performance artist based between Berlin and Vienna. She holds an education in classical singing and choir practice through her youth and studied choreography, dance, art and critical theory in humanities and social sciences. She presented her work at the Akademie der Künste Berlin, brut Vienna, Perrrformat Festival Zurich, Concéntrico International Festival of Architecture and Design, Acud macht neu Berlin, Dock 20 Museum for Contemporary Art Berlin, Zentralwäscherei Zurich, Auftakt Festival Cologne among others. As a performer, dancer, choreographic assistant and researcher Ferrari has been working for Deva Schubert, Alex Franz Zehetbauer, Janez Jansâ, Luca Bonamore, Doris Uhlich, Daryan Knoblauch, Sandra Noeth at Tanztage Sophiensaele Berlin, ImPulsTanz Festival Vienna, TQW Vienna, Britney X Festival Schauspiel Köln, HZT Berlin, Mumok Vienna, Münchner Kammerspiele.
Ferrari uses body and voice as her main mediums drifting through performance, music and language - both sonic and text based. In her practice she draws from theoretical concepts, drifting between scientific and experimental writing, exploring poetic, absurd and ambiguous textures of the vocal and language as sonic material in it’s rhythmic texture as tactical drifts of deviation. By closely observing and engaging with choreographies of social order as a relational, political and discursive order she deconstructs contemporary textures that manifests themselves in the body, it’s gestures and patterns of perception. Her work develops in close collaboration with the architectural conditions in which it is presented such as galleries, theatres and public space.
Photo Credit: Neven Allgeier