Léa Katharina Meier (born 1989 in Switzerland) is a performance, theater and visual artist. By employing clowning as a performative practice, her research focuses on the notions of ridiculousness, abjection, and jubilation in order to create a visual and sensory universe that embraces the audience. Out of her intimate failures, she wishes to develop a filthy, dyke sense of humour. On stage, she strives to embody negative emotions and feelings asa source of pleasure. Storytelling, the body as archive, grotesque femininity, shame, and a childlike universe are recurrent motifs in her practice.

Léa Katharina Meier has shown her work in numerous art spaces and theaters (CH: Arsenic, Tunnel Tunnel, MCBA, TU-Théâtre de l’Usine, Swiss Art Awards, Festival Programme Commun, Les Urbaines / IT: Lateral Roma, ADA Roma, Short Theater Festival, Festival Bande de Femmes / BR: Pivô arte e pesquisa, FAAP Residência Artistica). In 2021, she received the audience and jury prizes at the Swiss Performance Art Awards for “Tous les sexes tombent du ciel“ who was presented in 2025 as part of the swiss selection in Avignon (FR). In 23-24, she is a resident of the Swiss Institute in Rome (IT) and received and award of the Irène Reymond Fondation in Lausanne (CH).

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