Magdalena Emmerig

Magdalena Emmerig is a German artist and theatre maker. She is a trained tailor and completed the diploma course in Fine Arts/Stage and Costume Design at the Weißensee Academy of Art in Berlin. Her work in theater and costume and stage design explores culturally formed signs and affects, queer feminist theory, and practices of resistance in late capitalism. In previous works, she has explored neoliberal branding, commodified self-optimization, contemporary images of masculinity, and global contexts of paid reproductive labor, among others. Her focus is on immersive formats in which the audience enters and in which a personal encounter and affirmative exploration of complex contexts is facilitated.

Magdalena Emmerig has been a founding member of The Agency, whose immersive performances have been shown internationally from 2015-2022, at venues including HAU Berlin, FFT Düsseldorf, PACT Zollverein Essen, Münchner Kammerspiele, Gessnerallee Zürich, Sophiensaele Berlin, Donaufestival Krems, Tanz im August Berlin, Athens Biennale 2018, Radikal Jung Festival 2019, and FIBA Buenos Aires 2021.

She has a long-standing collaboration with director Noam Brusilovsky and dramaturg Lotta Beckers. Since 2020 she has been working with director and choreographer Heinrich Horwitz and performance and media artist Rosa Wernecke. She is a member of the FLINTA* collective Gefährliche Arbeit e.V. and Performing for Future - Netzwerk für Nachhaltigkeit in den Darstellenden Künsten.

Contact:
Magdalena Emmerig
Practicing Arts
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