Irene Accardo is an Italian Performance Artist born in Avilgiana-Torino, raised in Rome by Neapolitan immigrants, since 2006 she is a Berlin based Performer, choreographer, actress, art historian and art mediator. In her performances, videos, objects and texts she explores individual and collective storytelling as a healing political and artistic practice which affects the body in space and time, challenging the ideas of identity, gender, hierarchies and social roles. Lately she opened up her work to video art and more non theatrical interactive forms of performance art, such as expanded forms of storytelling, as well as automatic-flow drawing, music improvisations, photo transfers and installations. The relationship between the artist and the audience is at the center of her work: the works always start with an inspiration from a healing somatic practice, inviting the viewer to see the collective story within the individual, eventually questioning the possibility of healing as political: at times it’s a performative ritual, a guided meditation walk, or an object-totem, or a drawing mapping movement in time, exploring vibrations in time and space.
While her performance practice on stage has been evolving since 2012 in several venues in Germany, her visual art practice began with the pandemic in 2019. She holds a bachelor degree in literature and philosophy (university of Rome) and a master of arts in performance studies (university of Hamburg).
She has been recipient of the Berlin Senate stipend for performing arts in 2019, as well as the solo research fund of the German dance association in the same year, research stipend of the Fonds Daku “Take Heart” in 2020, and has produced and exhibited several projects as facilitator and artist since 2021: “at the end of the Day” in 2021-2022 for the Reinbeckhallen Foundation, or the radio project for families in Industriesalon in 2025. Artist residency in Raum On Deman/ Moneta- Alte Münze, January-February 2024.
Group exhibition in September 2024 “Lass uns später drüber reden” in Studio SDAB, Berlin.
Mother of a child since July 2018. If she would be an animal she would be a mother wolf. Currently member of Treptow Ateliers e.V.
Represented by https://www.e-mergingartists.art/artists/
Irene Accardo 