Francesco Marzano (*1992, Bari) is a freelance performer and musician based in Cologne. He studied music and literature in Milan (Italy) and flute, music pedagogy, contemporary music and performance art in Cologne and Essen (Germany).
His projects are characterized by a strong interdisciplinarity that combines sound, performance, word, video and installation.
He worked with artists such as Marina Abramović, Christina Kubisch, Salvatore Sciarrino and Doris Uhlich and performed in several international festivals, museums and theatres including MiTo (Milan 2015), Museo Teatro alla Scala (Milan 2016), Cantiere internazionale d’arte (Montepulciano 2022), Acht Brücken (Cologne 2023-25), Warsaw Autumn (2023), Splendor (Amsterdam 2023), Monheim Triennale II (2023), Museum Folkwang (Essen 2023), Lisinski Concert Hall (Zagreb 2023), Neumarkt Theater (Zürich 2025), KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen (Hannover 2025), Museum Schloss Moyland (Bedburg-Hau 2025).
He also works as a radio journalist and author in the fields of philology, performance art, theatre and music.
Francesco Marzano © Giulia Bersani
Francesco Marzano - Emergency Solos © Philip Yakushin
Francesco Marzano - Crystals © Sophia Hegewald
Discipline
Performance, music, writing, installation, video
Francesco’s artistic and research interests include autobiographical practices, interactions between memory and presence, individual and community, ephemeral actions and environments.
In recent projects he focused on the atmospheric qualities of performativity, drawing on Gernot Böhme’s aesthetics, and on ecologies of listening, inspired by ideas and works by Pauline Oliveros, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Hartmut Rosa.
Francesco enjoys collaborations with other artists, immersive, interactive and interdisciplinary works, and creative processes that expand perceptions and challenge limits usually taken for granted.
Discipline
Performance, music, writing, installation, video
Francesco’s artistic and research interests include autobiographical practices, interactions between memory and presence, individual and community, ephemeral actions and environments.
In recent projects he focused on the atmospheric qualities of performativity, drawing on Gernot Böhme’s aesthetics, and on ecologies of listening, inspired by ideas and works by Pauline Oliveros, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Hartmut Rosa.
Francesco enjoys collaborations with other artists, immersive, interactive and interdisciplinary works, and creative processes that expand perceptions and challenge limits usually taken for granted.