Bio
Azzurra De Gregorio
Born in 1985, Italy
Azzurra De Gregorio is an Italian artist whose journey began in the realm of acting and evolved into a profound exploration of the intersection between performing arts and visual art. Driven by an unrelenting desire to transcend boundaries, her work defies rigid definitions, embracing a nomadic and hybrid artistic path. Her practice seeks to question not only the roles of the actor and the audience but also the very nature of art itself, creating spaces where definitions dissolve and experiences unfold organically.
At the heart of her research lies a deep engagement with mythology, rituals, symbolism, sacred art, and ancient painting—each a thread in the intricate web of human expression. Her work exists as a dialogue, where music, light, gesture, movement, and new technologies converge to form immersive experiences. Each piece invites the audience into a realm where time, memory, and meaning intertwine, creating a shared space of reflection and discovery.
De Gregorio’s creations—ranging from theatrical plays and performances to site-specific works and photographic projects—have been presented on several festivals and art projcts: Romaeuropa Festival (2017), Stoff/Stockholm Festival (2016), Napoli Teatro Festival (2015), Mediterranea 17/Young Artists Biennale (2015), Weores Sandor National Hungarian Theatre (2019), Apache-Teatro Litta Milano (2016), Festival of Juventudes Interartes in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil (2019), Night With Performance Festival (Poland), Poietika Art Festival (2021), Dansathon, Belgium (2021), the Ministry of Culture of Montenegro-3c Project (2022), Reiefestival, Bruges (2023), and the PragueQuadriennale of Performance Design and Space (2024).
In 2019, she was awarded the prestigious scholarship of the European Theatre Convention (ETC) as an Emerging European Artist.
EDUCATION
2013 Master Degree in Science of Public, Business and Advertising Communication, Unimol, Campobasso, with a thesis in Philosophy of Social Sciences and Communication entitled Beyond the man. Contaminations and trespassing in non human alterity.
2011 Degree in Science of Communication at Unimol, Campobasso (voto 110L) with a thesis in political philosophy entitled Theatre as political gesture.
Erasmus Project at Artes Escenicas department, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid.
2006 Diploma for professional actors at International Acting School, Rome, directed by Giorgina Cantalini.
RESIDENCIES
2025 Project Craftlab Plus, Organized by Pino Pascali Foundation, Grottaglie (TA)
2024 Georgian Showcase, organized by Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia
2024 First Europe, the Hackathon Opera, Project partners: Y Csoport (HU), Museum of Lepenski Vir (RS), Pro Progressione (HU), ECCOM (IT), co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union
2023 Georgian Showcase, organized by Tblisi International Festival of Theatre, Tblisi, Georgia.
2022 3CProject Cultural Mobility Workshop funded by the European Union in collaboration with the Ministery of Culture of Montenegro, Old Prison of Kotor, Montenegro.
2021 Dansathon Initiated by BNP Paribas Foundation, co-organised and developed in partnership with three major Dance Institutions : La Maison de la Danse de Lyon (France), Sadler’s Wells (UK), Théâtre de Liège (Belgium).
2020 Kinono art Gathering, four elements plus one, Tinos Island Greece, supported by Neon Art Greece.
2019 Next Generation, La Mama Umbria International- Spoleto in collaboration with Centro Teatrale Umbro- Gubbio and La Mama New York.
2019 ETC Residency Program, Weores Sandor National Theatre, Szombathely, Hungary.
2018 Kulturfactory contemporary art residency, Domicella, Napoli.
2018 Trans-borders, La Vilella Theatre, Barcelona .
2017 Apache4, Teatro Litta, Milano.
2016 Iodiolestate, Carrozzerie|n.o.t, Roma.
”WORKSHOPS/TEACHING
THEATRE/PERFORMANCE
Director
2023 P.g.r. Pro Gratia Recepta, Reiefestival, Bruges, with the support of Erfgoedcel Brugge, CC Brugge and Musea Brugge.
2019 Apparatus, production Weores Sandor National Theatre, Szombathely in collaboration with ETC European Theatre Convention.
2016 De Rerum Natura, production Carrozzerie |n.o.t, Roma in collaboration with Apache. Teatro Litta, Milano
2015 Ex-stasis, production Frentania Teatri in collaboration with Fondazione Campania dei Festival/Napoli Teatro Festival.
2015 The Sick Rose, production Frentania Teatri.
2014 Madre, production Frentania Teatri.
Actress
2012 Le Troiane directed by Giuseppe Emiliani.
2010 Deadly sins directed by Simona Lisi and Isabella Carloni.
2010 Sueno de una noche de Verano directed by Nieves Olcoz.
2010 Hamletmaschine directed by Francisco Otero Garcia.
2009 Il sonno di Macbeth written by Gian Ruggero Manzoni, directed by Nicola Macolino.
2009 Feral Choir directed by Phil Minton, Santarcangelo dei Teatri 2009.
2007 Vexilla regis prodeunt inferni directed by Romeo Castellucci (Societas Raffaello Sanzio).
2007 Mostellaria from Plauto, directed by Beppe Arena.
2007 Il figlio della morta from A. Dumas, directed by Nicola Macolino.
2006 Il gioco delle parti from L. Pirandello, directed by Giorgina Cantalini.
2006 La casa di Bernarda Alba from F. Garcia Lorca, choreography and direction by Giovanna Summo.
2005 Omaggio ad Andy Warhol choreography and direction by Giovanna Summo and Ian Sutton.
2005 Quando incontraci potrem Sorelle? from W. Shakespeare, directed by Francesco Randazzo.
2004 E.V.N.I. from P.Greenaway, directed by Nicola Macolino.
2004 TangoSogno from J.L. Borges, directed by Nicola Macolino.
2003 Salomè from O. Willde, directed by Nicola Macolino
Director assistant/Coordination
2019 Terrorismus, directed by Luca Cortina, produced by Weores Sandor National Theatre, Szombathely Hungary in collaboration with ETC Europen Theatre Convention
2012 Strange and Unproductive Thinking with Abraxas Lab students
2011 (Ed)Ipovisione with Abraxas Lab students
2009 Schegge di Futurismo with Liceo Artistico B. Jacovitti students
2008 Marat-Sade with Liceo Artistico B. Jacovitti students
CINEMA/SHORT MOVIES
Director
2016 De rerum natura
2011 Virgen
Actress
2013 Martyrion-Sancta Lucia, directed by Giandomenico Sale
2011 El burro Andaluz directed, by Francisco Otero Garcia e Marcos Valdés Garrido
2008 Alla ricerca delle terre dimenticate, directed by Giuseppe De Vita
GROUP EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS
2025 Face and Mask, Krinzinger Schottenfeld Gallery, Wien, Artists: Carlos Amorales and Jeroen Kooijmaans , Chiara Zenzani , Rowena Morales , Víctor del Moral , Astrid Svangren , Eric Tlaseca , Issac Olvera.
2024 First Europe, VIR an Hackaton Opera,Partners of the project: Y csoport, ECCOM – Idee per la Cultura, Lepenski Vir. First Europe project is co-funded by the Creative Europe project of the EU. Project presented in: Archelogical Museum of Lepenski Vir (Serbia), Dorcol Platz (Belgrade), Museo Sigismondo Castromediano, Lecce, Festival Valley of the Arts (Hungary)
2024 Attraverso la Tendenza dove si muove quello che ci muove, interdisciplinary Festival curated by Chiara Isabella Sanvitale and Sibilla Panerai, Teatro Florian, Pescara
2022 Visualcontainertv Online Videoart Platform
2021 About the future festival, video art screening curated by Tommaso Evangelista, Ex-gil Campobasso, Fondazione Molise Cultura
2020 Tino Art Gathering, curated by Kinono Art Gathering, Sikia Garden, Tinos Island, Greece
2018 Comedovequandoperché, curated by Lorenzo Canova e Piernicola Maria Di Iorio, Galleria Aratro,Università degli Studi del Molise, Campobasso
2017 The F Word, curated by the students of the Master in Arts Management IED, Carrozzerie n.o.t, Roma
2016 Global Migration, Video art Festival curated by Associazione Festarte, Roma
2016 RAW- Rome Art Week, Galleria Massenzio Arte, Roma
2016 Nature Variabili, curated by Giusi Diana and Giuseppe Frazzetto, Convento Santa Maria della Croce, Scicli RG
2016 Exhibited frequency, curated by Tommaso Evangelista, Isernia, historical center
2015 Mediterranea 17 Young Artists Biennale, curated by Andrea Bruciati, La Fabbrica di Vapore, Milano
2015 Nights with performance Galeria Miejska bwa, Bydgoszcz, Poland
2011 Art linking project, curated by Silvia Valente, Galleria Limiti inchiusi, Campobasso
2010 Art shake festival, curated by Emanuela De Notariis and Fabio Campagna,@91 mq Art Project Space, Berlin
2010 Art shake festival, curated by Emanuela De Notariis, galleries: Mondo Bizzarro, Hybrida Contemporanea, Traghetto, Roma
2010 Nights of performance, Galeria Miejska bwa, Bydgoszcz, Poland
2009 fuori luogo 14, curated by Emanuela De Notariis, galleria Limiti inchiusi, Campobasso
2008 Artshake Festival, curated by Emanuela De Notariis, Galleria Civica, Termoli CB