Eva-Maria Bertschy

FOUNDING MEMBER

works as a freelance dramaturge, director and playwright. Since 2012, she has conceived and realised international theatre and documentary film projects with Swiss director Milo Rau and the IIPM. At the same time, she has worked regularly with Berlin director Ersan Mondtag. In 2021, she founded GROUP50:50 with Swiss musician Elia Rediger, Congolese choreographer Dorine Mokha and curator Patrick Mudekereza. With the Congolese-Swiss collective, she developed a multi-part political project comprising the two music theatre pieces The Ghosts Are Returning and Ecosystem and the discourse series The Time For Denial Is Over. Five years ago, she moved to Palermo and co-founded Fondazione Studio Rizoma, a production structure for transnational political and artistic projects based in Palermo. Together with the Rizoma team, she co-curated three editions of the Between Land and Sea festival, which has been held in Palermo and the port cities of Tunis and Bremen since 2021. In 2024, she realised her first solo piece, Fremde Seelen / Âmes étrangères, with which she returned to Switzerland.