Belle Santos is a Berlin-based artist working across installation, performance, text and costume design. Her current practice explores contemporary expressions and rituals of grief and pain, their service industries, and transformative spaces.
Recent works include the installation MOURNING ROOM III – The Moon is Out Tonight at RAMPE, Stuttgart, and the performative installation THE WAKE at transmediale studio, Silent Green, Berlin, and Theater Neumarkt, Zurich. Her upcoming piece, MOURNING TIME, will be presented at Kyoto Arts Center, Japan, in March 2025.
She attended a three-month residency at Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto (2022), funded by the Goethe Institut and attended the PACT Zollverein AIR. She was a visiting fellow at the Saison Foundation in Tokyo (2018, 2023). This year, she received a six-month scholarship from the German Cultural Ministry to research grief and ‘hysteria’ at the CITÉ DES ARTS INTERNATIONAL in Paris.
She is a founding member of the performance company THE AGENCY, together with Magdalena Emmerig, Rahel Spöhrer, Yana Thönnes and Sofie Luckhardt. THE AGENCY was active between 2015 – 2022. Their works were shown nationally and internationally, at festivals such as the Athens Biennale and Tanz im August, among others.
Together with Tilman Hecker and Selin Davasse, Belle Santos is a co-founder of NEXT WAVES THEATER and GLASSHOUSE, platforms for interdisciplinary experimentation in digital performance (www.glasshouse.berlin).
Next to her own practice, she works as a stage- and costumedesigner in collaborative contexts across theater, dance and film. She has been working closely with Nile Koetting, Elsa Sophie Jach, Lucia Bihler, Ran Chai Bar-zvi and Tilman Hecker and Samara Hersch. She did the costume design for the film '2038' which was the key work of the German Pavillion at Venice Biennale 2021 and the costume design for the upcoming cinematic adaption of the novel ‚Allegro Pastell‘ (release set for 2025).
Her theatrical collaborations have been shown at Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Volksbühne Berlin, Theater Bremen, Residenztheater München, Schauspielhaus Hannover, Oper Aachen, Bayrische Staatsoper, Volkstheater Wien, Theater Neumarkt Zurich, Theater Rotterdam, Nemetski Theater Almaty and Sophiensaele Berlin.
CONTACT
belleariadnesantos@gmail.com
Belle Santos is a Berlin-based artist working across installation, performance, text and costume design. Her current practice explores contemporary expressions and rituals of grief and pain, their service industries, and transformative spaces.
Recent works include the installation MOURNING ROOM III – The Moon is Out Tonight at RAMPE, Stuttgart, and the performative installation THE WAKE at transmediale studio, Silent Green, Berlin, and Theater Neumarkt, Zurich. Her upcoming piece, MOURNING TIME, will be presented at Kyoto Arts Center, Japan, in March 2025.
She attended a three-month residency at Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto (2022), funded by the Goethe Institut and attended the PACT Zollverein AIR. She was a visiting fellow at the Saison Foundation in Tokyo (2018, 2023). This year, she received a six-month scholarship from the German Cultural Ministry to research grief and ‘hysteria’ at the CITÉ DES ARTS INTERNATIONAL in Paris.
She is a founding member of the performance company THE AGENCY, together with Magdalena Emmerig, Rahel Spöhrer, Yana Thönnes and Sofie Luckhardt. THE AGENCY was active between 2015 – 2022. Their works were shown nationally and internationally, at festivals such as the Athens Biennale and Tanz im August, among others.
Together with Tilman Hecker and Selin Davasse, Belle Santos is a co-founder of NEXT WAVES THEATER and GLASSHOUSE, platforms for interdisciplinary experimentation in digital performance (www.glasshouse.berlin).
Next to her own practice, she works as a stage- and costumedesigner in collaborative contexts across theater, dance and film. She has been working closely with Nile Koetting, Elsa Sophie Jach, Lucia Bihler, Ran Chai Bar-zvi and Tilman Hecker and Samara Hersch. She did the costume design for the film '2038' which was the key work of the German Pavillion at Venice Biennale 2021 and the costume design for the upcoming cinematic adaption of the novel ‚Allegro Pastell‘ (release set for 2025).
Her theatrical collaborations have been shown at Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Volksbühne Berlin, Theater Bremen, Residenztheater München, Schauspielhaus Hannover, Oper Aachen, Bayrische Staatsoper, Volkstheater Wien, Theater Neumarkt Zurich, Theater Rotterdam, Nemetski Theater Almaty and Sophiensaele Berlin.
CONTACT
belleariadnesantos@gmail.com