Monica Klingler

Monica Klingler lives and works in Zurich. From 1978 to 1979, she trained in modern dance at the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance in London, followed by further training with Elisabeth Oppliger in Zurich from 1979 to 1981. Since then, she has worked as a freelance dancer, performer, and choreographer in international productions with partners from the fields of performance art and visual art. Among other things, she has also been involved in the Seefeld Dance Project in Zurich. Since 1984, her choreography has been presented at venues including the Kunsthallen in Basel, Bern, and Winterthur, the art museums in Lucerne, Zurich, Düsseldorf, and Mainz, and at Documenta 8 in Kassel.

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From 1993 onwards, she lived and worked in Brussels, where she collaborated as a choreographer and performer with director Thierry Salmon until 1998, and in 1994 co-founded the company Furiosas with Carmen Blanco Principal and Patricia Saive. She returned to Switzerland in 2000, working as a lecturer at the School of Expression and Movement in Zurich and at the University of Art and Design. In 2006, she received the Swiss Performance Award from the Basel Kunstkredit, and in 2021 she was a finalist for the Swiss Performance Art Award. In 2024, she was awarded a Senior Fellowship at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome.