Carolina Cappelli

A person with shoulder-length wavy hair leans casually against a wall on a stack of white mattresses, wearing a white ruffled blouse, gray vest, blue-and-black tartan skirt over dark trousers, with rings on their fingers and a small tattoo on their forearm; wooden floor and light-colored wall in the background.

Carolina Cappelli is an Italian performance artist, filmmaker and artistic gymnastic teacher based in Vienna. She studied film, audiovisual practices, experimental theatre and performing arts at Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, at IUAV in Venice and at Mattatoio in Rome. Her research involves the hybridisation between writing on the one hand and performance and cinematic practices on the other, generating works that question the context in which they’re proposed. Carolina has worked with artists such as Markus Öhrn, Francesca Grilli, Bruce Nauman, Roberto Fassone and Alex Franz Zehetbauer. She is the winner of the Italian Council’s 2024 prize and of the Vienna Prize for Performing Arts provided by the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna. In 2025, she was part of the PARASOL programme of Tanzquartier Wien.