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After years in theater, they now focus on rememory, exploring lived ambiguities, contrasts and pluralities. The performer approaches their studies of the own body as a critical diagnostic of contemporary power structures and social conditions. Recent works draw on fragments, tales, and rituals shaped by transnational and plural remembrance.
This embodied knowledge informs their participatory approach to critical mediation and teaching. Aina Rea is currently designing and implementing educational formats for the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich, primarily for school classes of all ages.
education
What’sNext_Compass Zürich University of the Arts2020-2023
BA Art EducationZürich University of the Arts2019
PropädeutikumZürich University of the Arts2014-2019
Liceo Artistico Schweizerisch-Italienisches
Kunstgymnasium2015-2016
Selwyn College Auckland, Aotearoa (New Zealand)
selected group exhibitions
2025
Art Show ar Secret Changing Locations Hotel Tiger,
Zürich Art Weekend, Zürich, CH2024
Sculpted AdornmentVilla Renata, Basel, CH2024
One and Three connexions Wall & Stage, Zürich2024
ACC04Spazio Mad,
Magadino Art Department, Locarno2024
Residency ShowGalerie Durchgang, Basel2023
Diploma Exhibition Bachelor Art Education,
Zurich University of the Arts, Zürich2022
Werkschau22 Kulturhaus Dynamo, Zürich2021
Performer’s Rule Schauspielhaus Zürich, Zürich
curation
01.12. 2024 – 25.02.2025
«attraverso un portale » Die Diele, Zürich
and theatre
2025
Flying Window with Gala Othero Winter,
Wir reissen ab!-Sprengfestival Theater Basel
2025
COMPORTATE with Ida Fay,
Kleine Freiheit Zürich2025
Kunsthaus Zürich Opening for Monster Chetwynd,
Kunsthaus Zürich2025
UNBOXING by Suna Gürler,
Schauspielhaus Zürich2024
Dramaturgy InternshipLast Night a DJ Took My Life,
by Joana Tischkau,
Schiffbau, Schauspielhaus Zürich2024
Moths, Bats and Velvet Worms! Moths,
Bats and Heretics!for Monster Chetwynd,
Belvedere21, Vienna2024
An evening with Gozer the Destroyerfor Monster Chetwynd,
Istituto Svizzero Milano2024
trying to eat the sea with a fork for Monster Chetwynd,
Swiss Art Awards,
Messe Basel2024
RAGE for Yumna Al-Arashi,
CIRCA prize 2024, London2024
Echo Club 2 School of Collective Embodies
Gessnerallee, Zürich2023
Hungry Eyesfor Monster Chetwynd,
MASSIMODECARLO-pièce Unique, Paris2023
little school memoryfor Yorgos Sapountzis,
Kunst und Bau Schulanlage Hofacker, Zürich2023
FUGA FUTURA Concertfor Livia Rita,
Theater am Gleis, Winterthur2022
FUGA FUTURA
Ski Lift Fashion Show for Livia Rita, Obertoggenburg 2022
SKINSHappening, Zentralwäscherei, Zürich2021 WhoTheFuckisKlytaimnestra? Gessnerallee, Zürich2019
Alptraum vom Glückby Jungthaeter, Zentralwäscherei, Zürich2017
Sommernachtstripby Jungthaeter, Zirkus Knopf, Zürich
grants, prizes
2025-2026
What’sNext_Compass Zürich University of the Arts
2025«ici. gemeinsam hier»Migros cultural grant
2024
SPARXMigros artistic grant2023
ResidencyGalerie Durchgang, Basel2023
Nominated for Alumni PreisZürich University of the Arts
socio-political commitment
2023
enoughanti-racist resistance days2023
Junges Grätsche Theaterfestival2022
Dreide CollectiveCo-Founder2017
Jungthaeter Theatre Collective
moderation
2025
resonance provider for
European network meeting “Across Borders!”
Coalition for Pluralistic Public Discourse, Zürich 2023
HUMBOOKS Lesung
by Lidija Burčak Humbug Club, Basel 2018
SRF KulturplatzInternship
publications
2023
Newspaper Article
on Luisa RicarZürcher Oberländer2023
Newspaper Article
on Miriam StraussZürcher Oberländer2023
Beauty or Brain?Extinction, Hox Magazin Edition 032023
Article on Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas Spezialausgabe “Andere Augen”,
Zollfreilager Magazin2021
Interview with Kira van Eijsden and Valentin XJungkunst Magazin2021
Sex, Volume 3Zwischentext Magazine, Zürich
teaching, mediation
Guest-Lecture on Anti-discriminatory mediation Invited by Dr. Sandra Winiger
for Zürich University of the Arts2025
free writing workshopZwischentext Magazin2025
Artistic mediationMigros Museum Zürich2024
Guest-Lecture on Anti-Racist mediation Invited by Sophie Vögele
for Zürich University of the Arts2024
Anti-Racist mediation, “Widerstände. Vom Umgang mit Rassismus in Bern.”Bernisches Historisches Museum2023
Be yourself and everybody elseDreide Kollektiv, Attempt studio, Zürich2022-24
Art MentorSecondary school K+S2022
Tutor Art History LectureZurich University of the Arts2022
Tutor Art Animation Module Zurich University of the Arts2022
Identity RemixDreide Kollektiv, Rote Fabrik, Zürich
Member of
visarteAssociation for professional artists in CH & LI
Kulturvermittlung Schweiz
PANCH – Performance art network CH