As a performer, Katarina Lanier (Bosnia) has worked with Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti, the collective WWWPERFORMANCEART at Pálácio do Grilo, João Fiadeiro, and Violaine Lochu. In 2018, she earned her undergraduate diploma in dance from Université Paris 8, and she completed her master’s degree in visual arts at Haute École des Arts du Rhin in 2020. In 2022, she completed the PACAP5 program, curated by João Fiadeiro, where she presented the first sketch of Call Me Three Times, a piece exploring the relationship between image production, desire, and movement. The piece was selected as the winner at Mostra Nacional de Jovens Criadores.
In recent years, Katarina has created various settings for artistic encounters, such as Quand Tu Marches Tu Cours, a week-long residency for 10 artists who sleep and work at Temple Saint-Étienne in Mulhouse. In 2022, she participated as a performer in the project NOVe — NOVos Tempos NOVas Dramaturgias, in Viseu. She also participated in ACT — Art, Climate, Transition, in Skopje, in 2023. In the same year, she presented her solo Call Me Three Times at Le Petit Versailles, a community garden in the Lower East Side neighborhood in New York. Her collaborative project Mirrors and Portals was created with Kat Wissing at HAUT DK, in Copenhagen, in 2023. Katarina built a cabin in a garden on the outskirts of Lisbon, which serves as her studio.
