Diana De Fex is a performance artist, choreographer, pedagogue and cultural mediator. Born in Medellín, she currently lives in Germany (Leipzig & Frankfurt).
She is interested in the healing and world-making potential of artistic practice through embodied methodologies (somatics, anarchivist strategies, minor epistemologies). Her work traces decolonial gestures, posthuman ecologies, and memory politics across contexts of migration and public space. Her current research examines mourning as collective praxis and a site of radical social reconfiguration.
Diana experiments with different formats in her artistic work, such as live performance, video-essay/video-performance, audio-guided walks, performative intervention in urban environment and installation. She is also a facilitator of Forum-Theatre and has extensive experience as a pedagogue in community theatre and dance contexts
In 2022, she received the Flausen+ research grant for performance artists, and in 2019, she received the Deutschland Stipendium grant for her master's studies in Choreography and Performance at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen, Germany. For her artistic projects, she has received funding from Fonds DaKu, National Performance Network- Stepping Out, European Cultural Foundation, Frankfurt Kulturamt, Leipzig Kulturamt, among others.
She spent a year as a visiting student at the Faculty of Amazonian Studies at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Leticia (Amazonia) and at the Drama Faculty at Trinity College Dublin. She holds a BA and Maîtrise in Theatre Studies from the University of Paris-Nanterre and trained as an actress.
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