Carolina Bianchi is a writer, theatre director, and performer born in Porto Alegre-Brazil, and based in Europe since 2020. Her work emerges from a perspective of crisis, creating bold confabulations about sexual violence and the history of art. Her staging blends diverse references from literature and painting, centering on violence through text and bodies that incarnates a sensual approximation with History through performative gestures.
She is the director of the São Paulo-based collective CARA DE CAVALO, with whom has most recently created: Trilogia Cadela Força, Chapter I: The bride and the Goodnight Cinderella that premiered at Festival D’Avignon 2023, Chapter II: The Brotherhood that premiered at KVS opening the KunstenFestivaldesArts 2025 -Brussels, A Cordial Light, premiered at Festival d’Avignon 2026. Her previous shows include O Tremor Magnífico (The Magnificent Tremor, 2020), LOBO (Wolf, 2018), and Mata-me de Prazer (Kill Me of Pleasure, 2016). Among other projects are We Do Not Comfortably Contemplate the Sexuality of Our Mothers for KunstenFestivaldesArts, Brussels 2024 and Percurso for Fuori Bo Festival, Bologna, 2023.
Chapter I and II toured major festivals and venues across Europe, USA and Australia. In 2025 Carolina Bianchi received the Silver Lion della Biennale di Danza di Venezia. The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella was awarded as Best Foreign Premiere of the 2023/24 Season in France, selected by the Le Prix du Syndicat de la Critique, and she also received the Gieskes Podium Prijs- the most relevant award in NL for artists. The texts The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella, The Brotherhood, A Cordial Light and The Magnificent Tremor were published in French by the Les Solitaires Intempestifs.
