ABOUT
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Larysa Bauge is a Belarusian-born performance artist whose work confronts the raw intersections of identity, gender, migration, labor, and power. Drawing from lived experiences—including years spent in legal limbo as an undocumented person—her practice is inseparable from the systems it resists.
Larysa Bauge’s background in orchestra conducting and classical music education forms a paradoxical foundation for her performance art. Trained in a discipline rooted in hierarchy, obedience, and patriarchal tradition, she found herself increasingly estranged from its reverence for the past and its resistance to resistance. The world of classical music, with its fixed scores and rigid rituals, offered little space for disruption or embodied urgency. This friction—between the silence of tradition and the need to scream—eventually propelled her toward performance art, where the body could finally speak, refuse, and revolt on its own terms.
Through performance, she exposes the tensions between the visible and the silenced, the body and the border, care and control.Her work often emerges from a state of rupture: pregnancy, motherhood, displacement, cultural fragmentation.
In pieces such as Madonna Pandemica, BEATBEET, Caritas, and post.Partum.Body., she uses the performing body as a site of friction and transformation—where personal biography meets structural violence, and softness becomes subversive.
Whether smashing glass with a boxing glove in front of her bare chest or standing silent in collective ritual, Bauge's performances are uncompromising in their intimacy and unres
As an educator, Bauge designs and facilitates workshops on identity and politics, performance and activism, body and stage presence, trained violence, and the poetics of resistance. She works with musicians, dancers, visual artists, and non-artists alike, sharing somatic tools that challenge the aesthetics of safety and encourage radical self-honesty.
She explores how performance can serve as a quiet rebellion, a collective howl, a space of care when all else fails.
Her current research focuses on trained violence and the potential of performance as a mode of resistance.
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She dreams of a society that is not afraid to rethink itself, where artistic creation is neither decoration nor luxury, but a tool of transformation and dissent.
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Selected
performances
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2025
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BLOED Collage, curated by Florian Borstlap – Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (DEPO), Rotterdam (Museum Night)
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2023
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Fitter/Happier – IPA Den Haag, Lange Voorhout, The Hague (Solo durational performance)
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BEATBEET I – ID Project Festival, Bartkapel, The Hague (Solo performance)
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Performance for "Where Do I Begin" by Ship Gupta – Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (Collaborative performance)
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2022​
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Singing Belt – Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague (Solo performance)
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I Got Coal – Trixie Art Space, The Hague (All-night durational solo on Christmas night)
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Draw to Perform – ArtKapel, Amsterdam (Group performance event)
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Madonna Pandemica – Weelde, Rotterdam (Video performance during pregnancy / pandemic)
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Aurora – MAMA Rotterdam (Duo performance for closed-door pandemic exhibition)
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POST.PARTUM.BODY – Plein Theater, Amsterdam (Solo performance)
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Solo Performance – AMFEMININE Festival of Feminist Theatre, Theater De Generator, Leiden, NL
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2021
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CARITAS – Experimental Action Festival, Houston, US (Performance and video commissioned by Blaffer Art Museum)
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Performance for video "ANGEL 0.1" – Collaboration with Brenda Void, London, UK
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Concerto – Meno Parkas Gallery, Kaunas, LT (Duo performance with baby Aurora)
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Performance Bar – WORM, Rotterdam (Resident performance)
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T.I.M.E. – Theater aan het Spui, The Hague (Solo presentation)
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DisOrders Project – International Youth Center, The Hague (Assistant to Jürgen Fritz / Black Market International)
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2020
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I got carbon for Christmas – Riga Contemporary Art Center, Riga, Latvia Solo online performance for the conference on contemporary art practice by Performance Art Center.
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Je suis mon corps, je suis ma memoire, 59 Rue de Rivoli, Paris, France.(Solo performance)
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Gallery Orbit, Frankfurt, Germany. IPA group exhibition
2019
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BELT – Perfomensk Festival, Minsk, Belarus (Solo performance)
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BEETBEAT – Carbonarium Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine (Solo performance)
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ROOTs – Studio LOOS, The Hague (Solo performance)​
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Earlier Works (2017–2018)
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ROTTS – GARAGE, Rotterdam (Solo performance)
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DONA – Istanbul Performance Art Festival, Turkey (Video performance for group exhibition How to Drink Conflicting Water)
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Himalayan Walk – G-Spot Gallery, New Delhi, India (9-hour durational video performance)
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PROPHETEIA Triptych – Minus Off Space, Vienna, AU & Gruntaler 9, Berlin, DE
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ALALUZ – Venice International Performance Week (IPA), Forte Marghera, Italy (Solo performance)
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STEPS – Oslo Performance Art Festival (PAO), Norway (Solo performance)
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Solo Performance – AMFEMININE Festival of Feminist Theatre, Theater De Generator, Leiden, NL
Composing and conducting
Larysa Bauge holds a full classical education in orchestral and choral conducting, with over a decade of experience across contemporary and symphonic music scenes in Europe. She conducted at major festivals including Ciclo de Música Contemporánea (Málaga), Dag in de Branding, Spring Festival, and participated in the renowned Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music.
She conducted works by young contemporary composers as well as renown once including Kaija Saariaho, Sofia Gubaidulina, Galina Ustvolskaya, Peter Ablinger, Luciano Berio, and Iannis Xenakis, with a strong emphasis on electroacoustic and experimental practices.
During her student years she founded an ensemble BaStra that became a site of transition between traditional conducting and performance art, incorporating bodywork, visual media, and collaborative stage presence—laying the foundation for her later performative investigations into the body and resistance.
Selected
teaching
lectures and
talks
Radio WORM / Residue Reading Group (NL)
Ongoing Radio Series on Performance Documentation
Co-host of a recurring program addressing theoretical and practical questions around documenting ephemeral art practices.
WORM, Rotterdam (NL)
“Residue” Workgroup & Presentation
Participated in research-based sessions on documentation and liveness. Presented at the Residue symposium on the complexities of archiving performance art.
Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (US)
Convergence Research – Artist Talk
Presented artistic research during a multidisciplinary residency exploring performance as knowledge production in institutional settings.
Through the Looking Glass Project (NL)
Performance Coaching for Musicians
Provided mentorship in embodied performance for classically trained musicians, challenging conventional notions of stage presence and audience relationship.
Residency Projects with Ensemble Modelo62 (NL)
“DisOrders” Project – Assistant to Jürgen Fritz (Black Market International)
Facilitated interdisciplinary workshops bridging experimental music and performance, focusing on relational presence and compositional structures in live art.
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Riga Performance Art Centre (LV)
Guest Educator
Taught sessions on somatic strategies in performance and co-developed modules on body-based resistance for early-career artists.
RiSEBA University, Riga (LV)
Workshop & Panel Contribution
Led the first edition of the workshop “Black Sheep Don’t Lie”—a practice-based exploration of identity and resistance in live art.
Also participated in the panel “What Is Performance Art?” addressing the urgency of live art within political and cultural landscapes.
Meno Parkas Gallery, Kaunas (LT)
Art & Motherhood Conference & Discussion Series
Invited speaker and contributing artist. Presented research on the politics of care and visibility in maternal bodies within performance art, contributing to transnational discourse on art and motherhood.
Billytown / P.S. Den Haag (NL)
Artist Talk: “Performance and Space”
Presented as part of a public program on spatial politics in live art. Discussed spatial occupation, proximity, and the body’s relationship to institutional and urban environments.
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Theater De Generator, Leiden (NL)
Feminist Theatre Event: “Baby Privilege”
Invited speaker at Amfeminine’s public discussion on motherhood, structural inequality, and the politics of care within performance contexts.
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Emergency Index (Publication)Contributing ArtistFeatured in this annual performance publication showcasing radical practices across disciplines and geographies.
OK16 Contemporary Art Center, Minsk (BY)
Panel Discussion: “Contemporary Performance in Belarus”
Participated in a critical dialogue on performative strategies under authoritarian regimes and the subversive potential of ephemeral practices.
Scheltema, Leiden (NL)
Lecture-Performance: “Epigenetics and the Role of Art in DNA Expression”
Explored the speculative intersections between biology and live art practices through a performative lecture format.
Royal Conservatoire, The Hague (NL)
Lecturer during Master Studies
Developed and delivered a course on contemporary composers for theatre practitioners, focusing on interdisciplinary collaboration and performativity in modern composition.​​​​
Producer,
programmer,cofounder
Larysa Bauge co-founded and helped establish Trixie Art Space as a dynamic platform for emerging artists in The Hague. In her role as producer and programmer, she:
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Conceived and implemented exhibition plans aligned with the gallery’s mission, working within the limitations of a newly founded, artist-run initiative.
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Organized fundraising events and successfully secured support from key Dutch art funding bodies, including the Mondriaan Fund, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, and STROOM Den Haag for New Artist Initiatives.
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Curated interdisciplinary music programs, notably for the Hoogtij Festival and the Intergalactic Environmentalistsexhibition. The music-theatre piece DisOrders, presented during this program, was later awarded the Berlin Art Prize (Kunstpreis).
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Led promotional efforts through social media and community engagement strategies to grow the space’s visibility and support network.
Education
9/2014 — 6/2016
Music and Theatre (T.I.M.E. muziektheater) (MA)
Royal Conservatory, NL, The Hague
Orchestra Conducting/Composition (BA)
Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Malaga, ES, Malaga
