Lorena Cipriano





Performance/ing artist︎ and graphic designer︎ with a focus on people and their stories as well as a conceptual and content based approach.

Usually working in the fields of photography, poster design, identities and type as well as performance, theatre and writing and with a soft spot for printed matters.

Member of Colletivo This Age︎︎︎ and Programmgruppe Bar im Stall︎︎︎.

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Visual Practice︎

Education
2018–2022

BA Design, Visual Communication
Zurich University of the Arts


2021
Erasmus
BA Design, Visual Communication
Iceland University of the Arts

2017–18
Preparatory Course
Schule für Gestaltung Aargau


Experience
2020
Internship, Junior Art Director
Büro a+o︎︎︎

2018–
Freelance Graphic Design



Collaborations
2024

UPCOMING: “Faire l’amour à notre sauce”
tba

Award
100 Beste Plakate 2020︎︎︎

Featured

Forming Diversity: Femminielli︎︎︎
Forming Diversity: Out of Line – A Visual Script︎︎︎
Slanted Magazine #42 – Books︎︎︎




Performative Practice︎

Experience
2024–
MA Contemporary Arts Practice in Performance
Bern Academy of the Arts

“Leben in vollen Zügen”
Collective Directing, Acting
Goodbye-Hello Festival, Bühne Aarau︎︎︎

“Out of Order – Scusate il contrattempo” Outside Eye
Collettivo This Age︎︎︎, Teatro di Banco

2023
“Memo von Nemo – Nachrichten aus der Tiefe”
Assistant Director
Theater Neumarkt︎︎︎

2022–23

“This is a Robbery!”
Hospitanz
Theater Marie︎︎︎

“Ballastpalast”
Assistant Director “Kinderclub u12”
Bühne Aarau︎︎︎

“Baustelle”
Assistant Director “Bühne Aarau Ensemble”

Bühne Aarau︎︎︎

Internship
Bühne Aarau︎︎︎


“Fosse anche un sogno matto”
Outside Eye
Collettivo This Age︎︎︎, Oratorio Balerna


2021–
Co-curator monthly event series
Bar im Stall︎︎︎Bühne Aarau︎︎︎

2020
“This Age Circus”
Piece by the homonymous Collettivo This Age︎︎︎




Residencies/Festivals
2024
TANZINOLTEN︎︎︎
Administration and Assistant

jungspund – Theaterfestival für junges Publikum︎︎︎
Internship, Moderation and Festivalmag

2023
fanfaluca – Jugend Theater Festival Schweiz︎︎︎
Moderation and Translation

Artist in residency at “Sasso Residency”︎︎︎
Vairano, Gambarogno, Switzerland

DEMO “lavori in corso, serve tempo”
Collettivo This Age

Grätsche – Junges Theater Festival︎︎︎

2022
fanfaluca – Jugend Theater Festival Schweiz︎︎︎
Young Lab

2021
fanfaluca – Jugend Theater Festival Schweiz︎︎︎
Young Lab

2021
Artist in residence at “Queer in Iceland”
Neskaupstadur, Iceland



Text
2024
“gemetzel”
In Glitter #7, Berlin / Zürich︎︎︎

2023 
“morgen bin ich müde”
In Boucle/Loop #01, Geneva︎︎︎

2021
“the perfumed garden” (performance)

Text contribution for Luca Büchler and Gilles Smrkovsky︎︎︎

2020
“dazwischen Zuhause”
In zwischentext #1, Zürich︎︎︎

2018, 2019, 2020
fanfaluca – Jugend Theater Festival Schweiz︎︎︎
Co-Curation and Design Festivalmag



Performance / Acting
2024
“Warum zierst du dich, Taube”
Performer for Celemens Fellmann
NICHE Performance Festival︎︎︎

2022 
“Ma ma martedì”
Young Lab 

2020

“Heute keine Disco”
Directed by Sabrina Fischer

2018–19
“Vagina Monologe”
V-Day Zurich, Aktionshalle Rote Fabrik

2017–18
“Steh Still”
u23 club, Bühne Aarau


2015
“Band Geeks”
Spring musical, Rigby High School, ID, USA