About & CV

Chiara Gelmini is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, voice, moving image and curatorial practices.
Her work explores how voice, presence and narrative can generate temporary communities and shared experiences.
Moving fluidly between stage, exhibition space and musical performance, she develops projects that activate participation, memory and encounter.

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She studied Visual and Performing Arts at IUAV University in Venice, where she worked with artists and theorists including Angela Vettese, Giorgio Agamben, Alberto Garutti and Guido Guidi. During these formative years she developed a multidisciplinary approach spanning drawing, theatre, dance, video, paper-cut animation and installation.

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An Erasmus period at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen further expanded her engagement with multimedia experimentation and exhibition practice, leading to early collective exhibitions in Germany.

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Alongside her artistic training, she completed a Master’s degree in Philosophy and Aesthetics at the University of Trieste, graduating with honours. Her research focused on relational art and its ethical and political implications — a perspective that continues to inform her work.

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Her projects range from exhibitions and short films to theatre productions, vocal performance and multimedia installations, often crossing artistic and cultural contexts.

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She currently lives and works between Italy and Switzerland.