Guest Lecturers
Tom Hennes
founder and creative director of Thinc Design
Audrey Gruss
founder of Depression Task Force
Fern Mallis
author and fashion consultant
Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman
Former astronaut, current professor at MIT
Philip Glass
American composer
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
performance artist and political activist best-known for her work with the Russian feminist art collective Pussy Riot
Artists In Residence

Thanassis Akokkolidis (Greece)
Inga Aleknaviciute (Norway)
Lama Amine (Lebanon)
Illenk Andilolo (Indonesia)
Shay Arick (Israel)
Walid Bahmid (Indonesia)
John Bark (Sweden)
Robert Baumgart (Germany)
Sophie Beck (Germany)
Khesrau Behroz (Germany)
Dom Bouffard (United Kingdom)
Naomi Boyce (USA)
Nikitas Broukakis (Greece)
Brune Charvin (France)
Charles Chemin (France)
Ivan Cheng (Australia)
Ethen Chia (Singapore)
Lea Connert (Germany)
Marc Crousillat (USA)
Pierre Cuq (France)
Matty Davis (USA)
Lovis Ostenrik (Germany)
Angela Dimitrova (Macedonia)
Adriana Dinulescu (Romania)

Irina Duskova (Finland)
Kate Eberstadt (USA)
Colin Edgar (USA)
Stephanie Engeln (Germany)
Mauro Farina (Italy)
Giovanni Firmo (Italy)
Melisa Freund (Argentina)
Robin Frohardt (USA)
Katrin Fuchs (Germany)
Amalie Gassman (France)
Paul Girard (Switzerland)
Philipp Gran (Germany)
Armin Hamp (Hungary)
Walter Hanna (Australia)
Meg Harper (USA)
Tilman Hecker (Germany)
Oree Holban (Israel)
Thorsten Hoppe (Germany)
Kayije Kagame (Switzerland)
Vipin Kannekanti (USA)
Abdi Karya (Indonesia)
Marianna Kavallieratos (Greece)
Sam Khoshbin (USA)
Dimitri Kleioris (Australia)

Christopher Knowles (USA)
Nico Krull (Germany)
Kristian Kruuser (Estonia)
Konrad Kuhn (Germany)
Annika Ley (Germany)
Owen Laub (USA)
Krystian Lyson (Poland)
Casual Madrazo (Mexico)
Jeffrey Mansfield (USA)
Mariano Marquez (Peru)
Tristan Mengin (France)
Dead Mesak (Indonesia)
Julian Mommert (Germany)
Rui Monteiro (Portugal)
Anna Muller (Germany)
Jokubas Nosovas (Lithuania)
Brian O’Mahoney (USA)
Charlie Otte (USA)
Maria Papadopoulou (Greece)
Jack Pavlik (USA)
Emma Plotkin (USA)
Jacques Reynaud (Italy)
Giuliana Rienzi (Italy)
Joanna Rodriguez-Noyola (USA)

Annchristin Rommen (Germany)
Silver Roostik (Estonia)
Manuel Rueda (Spain)
Zachary Schoenhut (USA)
Tarik Schubel (Germany)
Nicola Panzer (Germany)
Dorian Silec Petek (Slovenia)
Luke Smithers (USA)
Carlos Soto (USA)
Zdenek Stehule (Czech Republic)
Mette Sterre (Netherlands)
Zsuzsanna Szabo (Hungary)
Jeremy Tran (France)
Kai-Chieh Tu (USA)
Emanuele Turetta (Italy)
Ann Mirjam Vaikla (Estonia)
Vincent van Manden (Netherlands)
Valentina Vandelli (Italy)
Serge von Arx (Norway)
Magdalena von Behr (Germany)
Julia von Leliwa (Germany)

Workshops

Der Sandmann | Table workshop
A musical theater performance commissioned by the Schauspielhaus in Düsselford based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s short story Der Sandmann, to open at the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen in May 2017 and the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus in September 2017

EDDA | Table workshop
A theater production commissioned by the Norske Teatret in Oslo based on acclaimed Norwegian author Jon Fosse’s reimagining of the eponymous Old Norse poem and will focus on Edda’s treasure chest of old Icelandic sagas and myth

illycaffè | Table workshop
An Exhibition commissioned by Illycaffè, longstanding supporter and collaborator of Robert Wilson, to open in Trieste, Italy.

Turandot | Staging workshop
A workshop of one of Puccini’s most famous operas centered on the story of the cruel Chinese princess Turandot, to open at Madrid’s Teatro Real in November 2018.

Amahl and the Night Visitors | Staging workshop
A second commission from the peak performance series Montclair University, Robert Wilson will direct Gian Carlo Menotti’s one-act chamber opear in a new theater production based on the children’s Christmas classic biblical magi, to open at the Alexander Kasser Theater in Montclair, NJ in September 2016

Bach Motets (working title)| Table workshop
A choral work to be developed in collaboration with the Radio Choir Berlin, to open in June 2017.

The Old Man and the Sea | Table workshop
A new opera based on Ernest Hemingway’s eponymous novel, to open at Opera Australia on Greenmount Beach, Coolangatta in 2017