Igor CARDELLINI (CARDELLINI | GONZALEZ)

Profile

Born in Lausanne (Switzerland). Lives and works in Lausanne. Graduated with a Master's in Political Science from the University of Lausanne in 2011.
Cardellini is an artist developing a theatrical, choreographic, and visual practice grounded in research on architecture, power and social structures. His work explores how performative dispositifs shape bodies, behaviors, and modes of perception, through different formats, in public space, exhibition contexts and theatre.

Recent activities
2025 “El Viaje,“ itinerant performance, kunstencentrum Viernulvier, Gent, Festival de Marseille, Base Milano (touring)
2025 “This is a trap,“ performance-installation, Museum of Art and History, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2025 “FRKS,“ group piece, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Switzerland
2023 “Under grounds,” installation, Istituto Svizzero, Rome
2021-25 “L’Âge d’or,” site-specific performance, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne (European tour)

Awards
2024 Swiss Theatre Days, shortlist best performances
2023 Label Plus Romand
2022 Istituto Svizzero Roma

About worka

Cardellini forms, together with fellow artist and performer Tomas Gonzalez, the duo CARDELLINI | GONZALEZ. Their shared research engages with architecture in an expanded sense, from spatial and institutional design to architectures of power, and examines how these structures shape identities, bodies, behaviours, and imaginaries. Through site-specific works, guided formats and performative dispositifs, they develop projects situated in public spaces, exhibition contexts and theatrical frameworks, where the body becomes a tool to question existing environments.