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.
| Concept & dramaturgy: büro lunaire
| Compositions (world premieres): Alexander Bauer, Florian Kindlinger, Reinhold Schinwald, Germán Toro Pérez, Tímea Urban
| Gina Mattiello: voice, performance, text (interludes I–IV)
| Reinhold Schinwald: sound direction & live electronics
| Elisa Azzarà: flute · Pablo Marin-Reyes: trombone · Philipp Lamprecht: percussion
| Aspekte Festival Salzburg · Blumenberg-Tage Graz · Reaktor Wien
| Commissioned by Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten Graz
Taking Hans Blumenberg's figure of the shipwrecked spectator as its starting point, the live radio play asks whether an innocent position of watching can still exist today. The performance space itself becomes the ship: the audience sits facing each other, voice and instruments transmitted live via wireless headphones – an interplay of closeness and distance, observation and entanglement.
| Composition & performance: Samuel Toro Pérez
| Costume: Flora Miranda
| Overall concept, production: SALLE PRIVÉE
| Magdas Hotel, Vienna
| Photo: Monika Saulich
A performative experiment after Virginie Despentes explores violence in its structural, linguistic and physical dimensions. At its centre is the refusal of the expectation that women* must please. Space-filling sound textures and beats condense the text, voices overlap, polyphonic, ambivalent, fluid. Woman*, queer, trans – bodies beyond binary attributions come into the sights of patriarchal violence, disappear and reappear: self-empowered, vulnerable, uncompromising.
| 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.
| Concept: büro lunaire
| Text, voice: Gina Mattiello
| Sound direction, live electronics: Reinhold Schinwald
| Sound: Florian Kindlinger
| PHACE: Ivana Pristašová Zaugg (violin), Petra Ackermann (viola), Roland Schueler (cello)
| Costume: Flora Miranda, Esther Stocker
| Premiere: REAKTOR Vienna 2023 · Osterfestival Tirol 2024 · Theaterhaus Graz 2025
The text, published by Passagen Verlag in 2021, becomes a live radio play: the author moves around a dummy-head microphone while speaking it, her voice relayed to the audience live via wireless headphones. Remnants of landscape, particles of memory, day- and night-dreams oscillate between observation and objets trouvés from art, literature and philosophy – compositions for string trio and live electronics woven into the text let the fragments grow into the imaginary.
| 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)
