Gina Disobe
Jun 10, 2025


TuttoPassa- Photo cred to Nicole Weniger

I’m an Afro-Italian multidisciplinary artist, cultural practitioner, and youth worker with a strong focus on intersectionality. I integrate themes of identity, healing, and empowerment into my artistic and cultural practice. Born and raised in Fondi, a little city in South Italy,

I’m the daughter of a Nigerian and an Italian artist, which shaped me through a blend of cultures and experiences. In 2005, I moved to Innsbruck, in the heart of the Tyrolean Alps, to study architecture. Over the course of 20 years in Austria, I’ve dedicated myself to art and cultural initiatives aimed at social change, collaborating with communities, cultural institutions, and grassroots movements.

ARTIVISM WORKSHOPS: Designing and leading workshops at the intersection of art and activism, promoting creative expression.

INSTALLATIONS & EXHIBITIONS: Participation in exhibitions with large-scale installations and experimental works.

EVENT ORGANISATION: Curating and organising panel discussions, concerts and interdisciplinary formats in the field of art and culture.

MUSICAL PRACTICE: Performances in artistic and activist contexts, sound experiments as part of performative works.

SOCIO-CULTURAL COMMITMENT: Art education work in youth centers, development of creative programs for young people.

ACTIVISM & ART IN PUBLIC SPACE: Participation in actions with artistic means, performative interventions

Areas of interest: My interests live at the crossroads of art and music, activism, and the social sciences—where creativity meets change. I’m drawn to community work that sparks connection, politics that push boundaries, and the quiet power of daydreaming as a space for vision and possibility.

“Magic Carpets” project

The elephant in the room (working title)

Artwork in a process, more information coming later 2025

Past projects

Schwarz auf Blau

Type: Performance, theater

„Black on Blue“ is a performance project that focuses on the anti-racist struggle of four women* in Innsbruck who protested at a right-wing rally and is based on real experiences. The project, created by the Initiative Schwarze Frauen* Innsbruck (Initiative Black Woman* Innsbruck) and the association Zweitgeschichte, revives the historical bourgeois form of “paper theater” that was popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The aim is not to restage the mainstream theater repertoire, but to write its own history/ story of resistance. Through the collective development of the play and its public performance, the project is also a call for community building and intersectional solidarity (people from different marginalized groups were involved in the development of the play).

Contacts

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