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title: "Ema Bencikova • Artists"
description: "Ema Bencikova (she/they) is a Vienna-based curator, theatre director and care worker. In their artistic research, they concentrate on a critical phenomenology of non-normative embodiment using methods of institutional constructivism and infrastructural analysis of assistance within trans and crip…"
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# Ema Bencikova

Last edited on 22.7.2026

![](https://brut-wien.at/assets/artists/ema-bencikova/Elena-Lach-and-Ema-Bencikova.jpg)

Elena Lach and Ema Bencikova

© Christine Miess

## artist.bio

Ema Bencikova (she/they) is a Vienna-based curator, theatre director and care worker. In their artistic research, they concentrate on a critical phenomenology of non-normative embodiment using methods of institutional constructivism and infrastructural analysis of assistance within trans and crip communities. From 2019 to 2024, they headed the Stopy Snov neurodivergent community theatre in Bratislava. In 2025, they curated exhibitions at the ŠKUC Gallery in Ljubljana and the Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna. Also, Ema Bencikova received a scholarship from the intersectional organisation ‘kültüř gemma!’ In the autumn of 2025, together with Elena Lach, they hosted a workshop entitled *Spacing in: Relaxed Performance Lab* for autistic and neuroqueer persons as part of accessible brut.

## Works at brut

- [Move to the Beat – Stay for One Last Lasagna (mit Ray Scheinecker & Elena Lach, 2026)](https://archiv2.brut-wien.at/de/Programm/Kalender/2026/06/WS-Move-to-the-Beat)
- [Closing Cocktail – A final festival get together (mit Elena Lach, imagetanz 2026)](https://archiv2.brut-wien.at/de/Programm/Kalender/2026/03/Closing-Cocktail)
- [BUZZING around – für neurodivergente, blinde und sehbehinderte Menschen (Get together, mit Elena Lach, imagetanz 2026)](https://archiv2.brut-wien.at/de/Programm/Kalender/2026/03/BUZZING-around)
- [Taking the time (Get together, mit Elena Lach und LIFT Tanzkollektiv, imagetanz 2026)](https://archiv2.brut-wien.at/de/Programm/Kalender/2026/03/Taking-the-time)
- [How to festival? – A pre-festival get together (mit Elena Lach, imagetanz 2026)](https://archiv2.brut-wien.at/de/Programm/Kalender/2026/02/How-to-festival)
- [Spacing in: Relaxed Performance Lab für autistische und neuroqueere Personen (Workshop mit Elena Lach, 2025)](https://archiv2.brut-wien.at/de/Programm/Kalender/Programm-2025/11/Performance-Lab)

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