Ema Bencikova

Two people sit facing each other on a sofa in a room lit with pink and purple light. They look at one another, appearing engaged in conversation. One person wears a blue zip-up tracksuit and holds a small light-coloured box in their hands. The other person wears a patterned jacket and jeans and leans slightly forward. Plants and a cup are visible in the background, creating an intimate, relaxed and domestic atmosphere.

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:

Closing Cocktail – A final festival get together (with Elena Lach, imagetanz 2026)
BUZZING around – for neurodivergent, blind and visually impaired audiences (Get together, with Elena Lach, imagetanz 2026)
Taking the time (Get together, with Elena Lach und LIFT Tanzkollektiv, imagetanz 2026)
How to festival? – A pre-festival get together (with Elena Lach, imagetanz 2026)
Spacing in: Relaxed Performance Lab for autistic and neuroqueer attendants (Workshop with Elena Lach, 2025)