Artistic team

Francesca Grilli (Bologna 1978; lives and works in Bruxelles) uses a multidisciplinary language focusing on performance and installation practices. She has participated in numerous performance art festivals and exhibited solo and collective in international museums and institutions including: MAXXI L’AQUILA, L’Aquila (2021); Saal Biennal, Tallin (2019); Palais De Tokyo, Parigi (2017); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2017-2015); Centrale Fies, Fies - Trento (2017 - 2006); MAXXI, Roma (2016); Padiglione Italia, 55. Biennale Arte di Venezia (2013); Serpentine Gallery, London (2009); MAMBO, Bologna (2010), Manifesta7, Bolzano (2008).

Willy De Roij de Rooij was born in Venlo in 1956 and works and lives in Eindhoven. Six years ago she started a choir of volunteers and cicerones at the Van Abbemuseum, the museum of modern art in Eindhoven. The repertoire comprises of songs related to the works of art in the exhibitions and performances of compositions by artists. In collaborations with artists she is often responsible for the musical compositions. Educated as a professional choir conductor she has led several choirs in both secular and religious music. She is also associated as a soprano with a chamber choir and philharmonic choir.  She worked with Francesca Grilli for the production of The forgetting of air in 2016, as a movement trainer on stage.