interdisciplinarist with Artpractagogical Practise
questioning site-specific methods as well as systems of artistic practise
they/them
tri-national origin (spanish & greek; born in Germany; Italian nationality)
rooted in NRW, Germany
Education:
2022 graduated In-Situ B.A., Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, BE, awarded with magna cum laude; Site-Specific Art & Drawing
2021 Ανώτατη Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών, Athens School of Fine Arts: ASFA, GR: Pokal Yio; Performance, New Media & Photography
2020 Changed to Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, BE: Wouter Bolangier, Kris Van’t Hof & Leon Vranken
2020 - 2018 Fine Arts B.A: Muthesius Kunsthochschule, GE: BKH Gutmann & Alfredo Winkler; Stephan Sachs; Antje Majewski; Film & Painting
2017 Advanced Training in New Dance, Dance School for Improvisation and Performance, TIP, Freiburg, GE
2017 - 2014 M.A. Development Management, RUB Bochum & University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, SA; Latacunga & Quito, EC. Project Management; Performance & Acting; Photography
2014 - 2011 B.A. Social Work, University of Applied Science Bochum, Germany; Cape Town, SA; Posadas, AR; Santa Cruz, ECr; Kursk, RU & Tel Aviv, IS. Biography Studies; Consultation; International Politics; Improvisation in Theater & Dance; political Theater
Grants/Residencies:
2024 - 2025 Diakonie & Fachstelle Eine Welt des Evangelischen Kirchenkreises Herne, DE
2023 - 2024 Studio Scholarship Fröbel, Essen, DE
2023 - 2024 Projektstipendium KunstKommunikation23, DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörtsel, DE
2023 Allgemeine Projektförderung, Landesbüro für Darstellende Künste, NRW, DE
2022 Tiny Residency- Raus aufs Land, Landesbüro für Darstellende Künste, NRW, DE
2022 Kunsthaus Mitte, Oberhausen, DE
2022 Samenschool, Antwerpen, BE
2022 Bén, WH22, Nhà Sàn Collective, Linh and Nhung, documenta15, Kassel, DE
2022 Painting Residency, Varel by Ortrud Kabus, DE
2022 #Takeheart Research Funding, Theater im Ballsaal Bonn, Fonds Darstellende Künste
2021 Trampolin, Residency & Mentorship, Kunsthaus Dortmund, DE
2021 Archipel, Residency, Antwerp, DE
2020 MFK-Grant, NRW, DE
2020 Trampolin, Residency & Mentorship, Kunsthaus Essen, DE
2019 Still Standing, Grant for Emerging Artists, West-off, funded by Theaternetzwerk Rheinland; Mentoring: Michael Maurissens
2016 Research Grant for Master Thesis in Latacunga & Qutio, EC
2014 Grant for Semester at University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, SA
2012 Grant for Dance & Theatre Improvisation Teacher Training at Children’s Home in Santa Tersita, Posadas, AR
2011 - 2018 Friedrich Ebert Stiftung e.V.
2011 Civil Academy, Grant for SpuB, Movement in Cooperation, DE
Participated Projects:
2021 Absorption, Installation & Performance, Asad Raza, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Ruhtriennale Festival, DE
2021 Shaped by You, Exhibition, Performance and Installation by Adrian Q. Verdi and Rafaela Figurski Vieira, h_s, Antwerp, BE
2020 Routines During Covid-19, Archive by Els Dietvorst, BE
2018 Stationary Flowing, Exhibition, Screening and Performance by Korona Stejke, Orgelfabrik Karlsruhe, Durlach, DE
2018 The Welcoming Party, Installation, Puppetry and Dance by Manchester International Festival, Ruhrtriennale Festival, DE
2018 Kirina, Dance/Theater/ Music by Serge Aimé Coulibaly (Burkona Faso), Rokia Traoré (Mali), Faso Danse Théâtre, Ruhrtriennale Festival, DE
Collaborations:
2022 PERFORMING ARCHIVE, Narration at Site, Installation & Performance with Moritz Riesenbeck, Nails Projektroom, Düsseldorf, DE
2021 Total Trash Troop, AntiArt, PostApocollective with Reineir, Adam Hartnell
2020 Each is Both as Locurian, - Duo with Ian De Weerdt
2018 - today Still Standing as Locu & Ruth - Duo with Marlene Ruther OUTNOW
2017 The Three Basics with Korona Stejke, Rebecca Narum
Lectures, Talks & Fishbowl Discussions:
2024 unterHaltung, Ratsaal, Essen, DE
2024 Fair Fashion Forum Ruhr: Mode, Queerness, Gendermarketing & Nachhaligkeit, Oberhausen, DE
2024 Eye dentity: Eine Welt in Pink und Blau? Von künstlerischer Performance zu Gendermarketing, Kunstraum Hase 29, Osnabrück, DE
2024 All Included: Queer Unterwegs. Gender, Marketing & Diversität, VHS Herne, DE
2023 Cultivating Together: Presence, Connection and Balance, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, DE
2023 DA Kunsthaus, Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörstel, DE
2023 Transnational Meeting, Forgotten Lands, Archipel, Antwerp, BE
2022 Archiv of Fragments, In-Situ - Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, BE
2019 Still Standing, Theater im Ballsaal, Bonn, DE
Artistic Projects with Kids & Youth &/or Adults:
2024 Wir in Herne, Vernissage zum Projektabschluss des Frauentreff´s, Herne, DE
2024 Zukunftsforum Siegen- Wittgenstein, Dahlbruch, DE
2023 - 2024 Cultivating Together: Presence, Connection and Balance, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, DE
2023 DAS KANN ICH AUCH, Abschlussausstellung zum Atelierstipendium, Fröbel, Essen, DE
2023 Wir sind im Garten, Painting and Collage Parents vs. Kids by ROCHURATO LOCUSAURUS, Kulturamt Essen, DE
2023 In Search for the Square, performative walks, drawings & sculpture workshops, Fröbel, Essen DE
2023 Das Sprechende Eck, Mobile Action Space, Maximiliane Baumgartner, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Ruhrtriennale Festival, DE
2022 Walk into the Dark, site specific performative walk, Qulturwerkstatt, Netphen, DE
2022 Ich glaub es spuukt !, Theaterworkshop, Qulturwerkstatt, Netphen, DE
Performances:
2024 Kunstmuseum Bochum, DE
2023 BLICKE FILMFESTIVAL DES RUHRGEBIETS, Bochum, DE
2023 LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen, DE
2023 Theater Oberhausen, DE
2023 Druckluft, Oberhausen, DE
2022 Drawing Performatif, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2022 Vunzig Veesje, SMAAK- Festival, Antwerp, BE
2021 Biennale Mol Rauw, Non-Performance, Put van Rauwe, BE
2021 The Image Generator, Antwerp, BE
2021 Draußen Vor Ort, Filmscreening & Live Performance, Marktplatz, Theater im Ballsaal & Fringe Ensemble, DE
2021 Leerstand, Bochum-Hamme, DE
2021 OUTNOW, Zoom Lecture and Film, Schwankhalle, Theater Bremen, DE
2020 Zeitzeug_Festival, digital Performance Festival, Bochum, DE
2020 Each is Both, Installation and Non-Performance, Kunsthaus Essen, DE
2020 Structural Struggle, Shaking, Blikfabriek, Antwerp, BE
2020 Shaking, Blackbox, Kiel, DE
2019 Still Standing, Filmscreening & Performance, TheaterImBallsaal Bonn; Studiobühne Köln, Cologne and FFT-Düsseldorf, DE
2019 Elfminuten, Rumstehen, Studiobühne Köln, Cologne, DE
2018 The Three Basics, Freiburg, DE
2018 Stereoskop IV Utopia, Spieglerey Space, Zurich, Switzerland & NoNation Art Gallery, Chicago, US
2018 Breaking Out of the Mind XII, Orgelfabrik Karlsruhe, Durlach, DE
Exhibitions:
2024 Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, DE
2024 Intimacy, DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörstel, DE
2023 Geerdet, Hase29, Osnabrück, DE
2023 Hingeschaut: Zugezogene Frauen in Herne im Fokus, Caritas, Herne, DE
2023 Vanishing Pasts, Antwerp Art Weekend, Archipel, Antwerp, BE
2022 PERFORMING ARCHIVE, Narration at Site, Installation & Performance with Moritz Riesenbeck, Nails Projektroom, Düsseldorf, DE
2022 Übern Berg, Localize, ephemeral Monument & daily Ritual, Potsdam, DE
2022 Phantom Ships, Wintertuin, Antwerp, BE
2022 In Search for Overwhelming Banality: The Status Quo of Public Spaces, One Minute Space, Athens, GR
2022 The Machine in the Ghost, T A L C Studios, Athens, GR
2021 Trampolin, Kunsthaus Dortmund, DE
2021 Island Chain, Sculpture, Lowrider Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2021 Antwerp Art Weekend, Antwerp, BE
2021 The Urne, Installation and Projection of Performance at Pseudo Public Space, Archipel, Antwerp, BE
2021 The Cure, Public LED-Wall-Video-Screening, Curato, IT; curated by Alexander Merisi
2021 The Outcome, De Grote Haal, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, BE
2020 o, Performance at h_s, Antwerp, BE
2020 The Construction Workers who Never Came, In-Situ3, Antwerp, BE
2020 I WAS HERE, Hot Dog Projectspace, Bratislava, SL
2020 ICH WAR HIER, Kunsthaus Essen, DE
2020 Structural Struggle, Blikfabriek, Antwerp, BE
2020 Rosa Grün, Anscherpark, Kiel, DE
2019 Trampolin, Kunsthaus Essen, DE
2019- today Kunst fördert Heilung, UKSH, Kiel, DE (permanent)
2018 Bilder erzählen, RUB, Bochum, DE
Collections:
LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen, DE
DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörstel, DE
Publications, Essays, Features & Interviews:
Locuratolo. Wir in Herne: Herne, 2024.
Belsgen, J. Emanzipierte zugezogene Frauen im Fokus. Hallo Herne, 2024.
Gesink, S. T. Die Welt mit anderen Augen sehen: Kunstprojekt Still Standing. IVZ: Ibbenbüren, 2023.
Mku. Kita-Kinder auf der Suche nach dem Gradeck. Fröbel: Berlin, 2023.
Janoschka, J. Das Fröbel-Atelier in der Marktstraße. Fröbel: Essen, 2023.
Fröbel. Einblicke in das Erste Fröbel-Atelier. Fröbel: Essen, 2023.
Mwe. Fröbel eröffnet Atelier für Künstler*innen und Kinder. Fröbel: Berlin, 2023.
Clements, K. Kunst in der Kita. Essener Kinder testen neues Modell. WAZ: Essen, 2023.
DA Kunsthaus. Projektstipendium Kunstkommunikation. Kloster Gravenhorst: Hörstel, 2023.
Irrgang, C. Vielfältige Jetztzeit: Locu&Ruth mit Still Standing im Residenzprogramm. Kunsthaus Mitte: Oberhausen, 2023.
Kontur30. Von Fichtensterben bis Virtual Reality: Projektstipendium KunstKommunikation. Tecklenborg Verlag: Steinfurt, 2023.
Becker, L. Tiny Residency. Portrait. Gute Geister. Kritik Gestalten: Netphen, 2022.
Jan Kusnierak & Locuratolo. In Search for Overwhelming Banality: Catalog. One Minute Space: Athens, 2022.
Cafe de Biennale. Biennale 2022. Event & Publication. Biennale Mol Rauw: Antwerp, 2022.
Stadtteilkümmerei. Stehen Geblieben: Schaufenster-Ausstellung “Still Standing” Überrascht Passanten. Expedition Hamme: Bochum, 2021.
Outnow. Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann stehen sie noch heute. Theater Bremen: Bremen, 2021.
Locu&Ruth. Was steht ihr hier herum? Locu&Ruth: Bochum, 2019.
Muthesius Kunsthochschule. Einblick Ausblick 2019. Jahreskatalog. Muthesius Kunsthochschule: Kiel, 2019.
Gutmann, B:KH. Basis Skills. Muthesius Kunsthochschule: Kiel, 2019.
Curated/Organised Exhibitions:
2022 In Search for Overwhelming Banality: The Status Quo of Public Spaces, One Minute Space, Athens, GR
2018 Weltbaustelle, South-Nord-Project of EWZ, Mural by Daniel Pulido Ortiz (Colombia), Herne, DE
2017 Weltbaustelle, South-Nord-Project of EWZ, Mural by Ursula Meyer (Argentina, DE) and Machela Liefeldt (South Africa), Herne, DE