THE
PERFORMANCE
AGENCY

The Performance Agency is dedicated to the curation and production of site-specific performance formats. Since its initiation in 2017, it has been informed by the artistic esprit of the avant-gardes at the origins of performance art. In a firm belief in the transformative powers of art, The Performance Agency lives in a continuation of their energies—uniting artists from all fields to create collective spaces of experience that draw our attention to interstices, to the inexplicable, to the beauty of the everyday.

In the first two years, The Performance Agency curated the public program of the Archivio Conz, a collection of more than 3 000 works by late 20th century avant-garde artists collected and produced by Italian publisher and collector Francesco Conz, and developed its signature format: carefully staged performances that allow audiences to traverse a world of imagination. The combination of historical references and an attentive orientation towards the future continues to guide the work.

With studios in Berlin, Paris, Geneva and Vienna, the organisation has since become a vital organism, curating projects in collaboration with international institutions and artists to produce a wide array of formats, from public programs to performative dinners, music albums and artist videos.

The Performance Agency is supported by the aws Austria Wirtschaftsservice.

Astrit Ismaili ‘Miss Kosovo’ (fragment from the performance MISS) during Another Map to Nevada Copenhagen 2021. Photo by Luis Artemio de los Santos. © The Performance Agency & Den Frie Udstilling

TEAM

Yael Salomonowitz

Creative director

yael@performanceagency.biz

Lily Matras

Associate director

lily@performanceagency.biz

Shakti Aniorte-Mendez

Image research

shakti@performanceagency.biz

        Mikael Camhaji
        Studio assistant
        office@performanceagency.biz

        Kristiana Mile
        Studio assistant
        kristiana@performanceagency.biz
       
        Katya Hudson
        Studio assistant
        info@performanceagency.biz

        Ieva Kabasinskaite
        Studio assistant
        info@performanceagency.biz

Photo by Reto Schmid in collaboration with Amadeus Vogelsang and Robin Brass for Another Map to Nevada Berlin 2020.