Micha is a Berlin-based, French-Italian, queer artist, parent, and filmmaker. In their work, they explore creative collective and healing processes, gender, sexuality, activism, love, and relationships, with an ironic, erotic, and feminist point of view.
Under the name of Nehra Stella, they directed 3 films: Paris laNuit, Berlin-Sarajevo, and Vivre Berlin and are currently editing “Le bel animal“. They recently created a long immersive performance “I’ll be your woman“ that was presented in DB studio during the gallery weekend, on April 24.
Parallel to their artistic work, they research different body practices such as yoga, dance, meditation, fasting, and hypnosis and facilitate workshops combining acting techniques and conscious body-mind, gender fluidity, personal growth, sexual empowerment, consent, and conscious kink.
Micha Stella is a creative co-director and consultant at IKSK (Institute for body research and sexual culture of Berlin) where they teach regular classes such as Creative Mornings, Sexual Empowerment, Girls with cocks, and Creative Playfight, as well as weekend retreats and immersive play spaces.
“Creative Morning“ tours in Milano, Madrid, Dublin and Barcelona, and Micha have started a teacher training of her method. For the “Creative Morning Project“, Micha realized an immersive space installation “Wildly Now, the body politic of freedom“ and a sound installation “Lazy warm up“ that took place for the last LeLab in collaboration with StudioApelbaum.
They love to initiate collaboration with other artists and co-teach classes as they did with “Queer Romance“ with Aron, “Nude Pics Mania“ with Matilde Flor Usinger, “Kinky Dance Floor“ with Kulshedra, “Kink & Transcendence“ with Felicitas Ale, “Motherhood, and Parenthood & fulfillment“ with Judith Uma Schunk, “Creatice Playfight“ with Sako, and with different musician as Davide Serpico and Gianluca Elia. They also created the role-play space “The School of Love“ for the Berlin xplore festival, together with artist and performer Anna Natt.
Micha believes that through Creative & Collective processes with our conscious body-mind-soul, it is possible to survive patriarchy and to transform violent, traumatic, and sex-negative upbringing into a joyful path of recovery. Stella is convinced that by coming together, with all our differences, with Radical Honesty, Radical Listening, and Radical Empathy, we can set the path that leads to a world where all beings can be happy and free.
co-presented by: Elisabetta Lanfredini
Elisabetta Lanfredini is an Italian singer, performer, composer, sound artist, and mother based in Berlin. She studied ethnomusicology, jazz singing, improvisation, and various vocal styles. Her work emerges from an ongoing exploration of vocal techniques and singing traditions from diverse origins, alongside a rethinking of the symbolic and archetypal wealth embedded in singing within contemporary language.
Her art addresses themes of cultural identity and migration, oral heritage, “capitalistic motherhood,” and the symbols and disturbances of contemporary society. She has performed on stages such as CTM-Transmediale, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, DAAD Berlin, Art Gummy Kanazawa, Tarakya KA Istanbul, and many others.
Her work with the voice seeks to challenge stereotypes, perfectionism, expectations, and prejudices. She approaches the voice not only as a primary means of expression and musical creation but also as a deeply intimate, powerful, and sensitive part of our being. Singing becomes a transformational tool, an essential element of bodywork, and a path to self-discovery.
sound by: Gianluca Elia
Originally part of jazz and free-jazz scenes from Milano, Gianluca Elia is now based in Copenhagen, where he is an active voice in contemporary improvisation and noise, both in the scene and academy, and works as a software developer for web and mobile applications.
Maga María
Maga María is an artist, teacher, and researcher from Barcelona, a poet and a cum laude PhD in Baroque Literature.
She is a disciple of the strip artist Chiqui Martí and the performer Abel Azcona. Among other projects, she is the founder of Creatrix, an ecofeminist and decolonial ritual art initiative focused on the empowerment of the sacred feminine through performance.
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