Gina Mattiello writes literary texts and brings them to the stage.
Texts emerge as prose, poetry and libretti and are translated performatively into space through her voice.
Works are created for stage, concert and installation, often in collaboration with composers, directors and ensembles.
| Staging: Theater Quadrat
| Dramaturgy: Gina Mattiello, Werner Halbedl
| Freilichtmuseum Stübing, Graz
A woman, a wall, a tightly bounded piece of nature. Haushofer's modern dystopia as a solo between the will to survive and humility, critique of civilisation and a heightened sense of life.
“Absolutely worth seeing."
(Christoph Hartner, June 2025)
| with Ninja Reichert, Gina Mattiello, Werner Halbedl, Alexander Kropsch
| Staging: Theater Quadrat
| Dramaturgy & text version: Ninja Reichert
| Set & costumes: Yvonne Beck | Theater Quadrat, Graz
| Photo: Alexander Kropsch
Born female as a prince's grandchild, raised as a boy: Sand's forgotten figure wrestles for identity and freedom against the norms of her time. A double bill that places George Sand's 19th century and Kim de l'Horizon's present side by side without historicising them.
| Composition: Periklis Liakakis
| Staging & space: Ernst Marianne Binder
| Set & costumes: Vibeke Andersen
| dramagraz | Graz / Vienna / 21er Haus Vienna
A painter, a city at the edge of humanity, the impossibility of art in the face of real violence. Gina Mattiello as a speech performer on an illuminated cube — observed by cameras, surrounded by the audience — in a sound-image landscape that only takes shape in the minds of the spectators.
“A strong performance by Gina Mattiello. Strong in her language, with radical emotionality."
(Kleine Zeitung, October 2016)
| with Ronja Jenko, Eva Kessler, Mona Kospach, Gina Mattiello, Ninja Reichert, Werner Halbedl
| Musical concept: Ernst Marianne Binder / Jonas Kocher
| Staging: Ernst Marianne Binder | Music: Jonas Kocher
| dramagraz | Dom im Berg Graz · Musikfestival Bern · Kosmos Theater Vienna
Jelinek's cascades of language after Fukushima: five voices as a speaking chorus, the text as music, the voice as the last material in a world without light.
“… Ronja Jenko, Eva Kessler, Mona Kospach, Gina Mattiello, Ninja Reichert and Werner Halbedl traverse Jelinek's meanders of language and thought with virtuosity."
(Kleine Zeitung, September 2013)
