VERONICA LILLO

ARTIST BIO

Veronica Lillo is a Berlin-based movement artist, contemporary dancer and artistic and movement director working across performance, film, fashion and music. Trained in Italy at the Scuola del Balletto di Toscana and selected for the Artistic Development Program based on the Les Ballets C de la B method, she has performed with Poetic Disaster’s Club Guy & Roni, Oxymoron Dance Company, Staatstheater Cottbus, Sasha Waltz & Guests. Alongside her performative work, she develops interdisciplinary projects and collaborates internationally as a movement director and embodied creator. She is currently developing METANOIA – Art of Transformation, a multidisciplinary immersive project, while founding CINQUE, a production platform dedicated to contemporary, cross-disciplinary artistic creation. Alongside her performative work, she collaborates with artists from different fields on film and live projects, expanding her practice as a movement director, curator and embodied collaborator across performance, music and fashion.


ARTIST STATEMENT

I work with movement as an authorial language.

My practice is rooted in the body as a living archive — a site where echoes, transformation and presence converge.

Movement, for me, is a process of crossing fields.

It emerges from listening: to the body, to space, to other bodies, and to the tensions that exist between individuals — across time, between past and future, fullness and emptiness. I am interested in movement as a state of transition, where identity dares to be continuously shaped through encounter, exposure and relation.

My work moves across performance, film, fashion and music, operating at the intersection of creation and embodiment. I conceive and develop original projects while also collaborating within the visions of other artists, bringing a strong physical intelligence and a clear authorial presence into shared processes. In both cases, the body remains central — not as decoration, but as meaning.

I am drawn to contexts where disciplines overlap and contaminate one another: where choreography meets image, sound meets narrative, and collective experience becomes a compositional element. My approach is multidisciplinary by nature —as a necessity, a response to the complexity of identity and expression.

As a movement artist and director, I work with performers and non-performers alike, supporting the emergence of each individual physical language. I understand composition as an act of relation: assembling bodies, energies and perspectives into coherent yet open structures, where singularity is preserved and amplified.

Parallel to my authorial practice, I collaborate with artists, musicians, filmmakers and institutions on projects that require a strong embodied vision — where presence, transformation and collective perception play a central role.

My work creates spaces of attention, intensity and listening, where the body becomes a site of encounter and movement a shared language.


PROJECT STATEMENT: META

Meta is the prefix of transformation.
It is change, transposition, crossing through.
It is what comes after, but also what happens in between.

Meta is pure intuition.
An abstract, mysterious force that doesn't ask for control but trust.

Being Meta means letting yourself be crossed through.
Being fluid. Transparent. Crystalline.

Observing instead of holding.
Acting instead of forcing.

Existence is not a fixed form,
but a continuous becoming and unbecoming.

Meta is the abandonment of what no longer belongs to us
to make space for what truly resembles us.

This is just the beginning.
A first documentation of the identity transposition
that began in 2025 and is still unfolding.


ABOUT THE PROJECT

META (2025–ongoing) is a performance and photographic documentation project exploring transformation as an embodied practice. The series captures moments of transition—not as destinations, but as states of being. Each image is a threshold: between stillness and motion, between control and surrender, between what the body was and what it is becoming.

The project draws from contemporary dance, somatic practice, and philosophical inquiry into the nature of identity and change. The warm-cool chromatic tension (orange/amber and green/teal) creates a visual metaphor for the work's central question: What happens when we allow ourselves to be crossed through by transformation?

META is not about achieving a final form. It is about inhabiting the space of metamorphosis itself—the space where observation replaces holding, where acting replaces forcing, where existence is understood as continuous flux.

This series represents the first chapter of an ongoing investigation that will continue to document and embody the process of identity transposition as it unfolds over time.

Photo credits: @dancephotografilm, @baldemar_bottini, @lissletrue