Helena Dietrich is a transdisciplinary artist and independent researcher based in Brussels. Their work develops from the intersection of performing arts, experiential soundscapes, experimental pedagogy, immersive installation, and investigates magical realism, through fictional narratives, myths of metamorphoses, and an animistic lens. They majored in visual communication at the University of Applied Arts in Stuttgart, Merz Akademie, and later at the European Media University of Portsmouth. They did postgraduate research studies in performing arts at the Posthogeschool Voor Podiumskunsten in Brussels. From 2015 to 2020, they were a docent in visual arts, hybrid media and fiction workshop at LUCA Art School, and a research assistant at KASK, Hogeschool Gent. With their research they are concerned with exploring transformative body experiences and their healing potential within a community. As in their projects Critical Techno and Trance/reading in which through the union of listening, dance, sounds, beats, words, meditation and the use of the body, they are creating a moment of collective reflection and catharsis. Their work has been shown in several venues, museum and art spaces, such as Beursschouwburg, La Raffinerie, Kaaitheater, Uferstudios, Viernulvier, Brakkegrond, Le Generateur, Fondation Fiminco, IKOB amongst others.

Ph. credits Paolo Sacchi, Bernard Bousquet