BOGINYA VON ART
Multidisciplinary non-binary trans artist, LGBTQ+ artivist and performer based in Switzerland.
Performance · Sound · Installation · Moving Image · Ritual
Fils d’identité is a multilingual ritual performance about identity, exile, embodied memory, queer healing and transformation.
CURRENT & RECENT
27 JUNE 2026
LAUSANNE PRIDE
Parc de Milan, Lausanne, Switzerland
Boginya Von Art opened the main stage programme as the first artist of the evening at 18:05.
Fils d’identité was presented from 18:15 to 20:15 as a multilingual ritual performance moving between the main stage and the village area. The work explored identity, exile, embodied memory, queer healing and transformation through voice, body, sound and collective presence.
7 JULY — 7 AUGUST 2026
PAVILION OF (DIS) SENSE
Ex-Church of San Leonardo
Cannaregio 1584, Venice, Italy
An Italian-language video excerpt from Fils d’identité and a collage work on canvas will be presented in Venice as part of Pavilion of (dis) Sense.
The exhibition takes place during the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
SEPTEMBER 2026
PARIS, FRANCE
Upcoming performance and public talk. Details to be announced soon.
ABOUT FILS D’IDENTITÉ
Fils d’identité is a ritual audio performance built around voice, body, memory and collective presence.
At the centre of the work is a ten-metre braid. It functions as a sculptural object, an extension of the artist’s body and a living thread connecting individual stories.
Participants are invited to hold the braid, move with the artist and enter the performance through headphones.
The audio moves between fairy tale, testimony, mantra, memorial and spell. Personal memory becomes a collective experience without being reduced to spectacle.
The body becomes an archive. The voice becomes a ritual. The performance creates a temporary space for resistance, mourning, queer healing and transformation.
LIVE / VIDEO / INSTALLATION FORMATS
Fils d’identité exists in several interconnected forms:
LIVE RITUAL PERFORMANCE
A durational performance with voice, movement, headphones and a ten-metre braid held by participants.
MULTILINGUAL AUDIO WORK
The work is available in Russian, French, English and Italian. Each language changes the emotional texture of the story.
PARTICIPATORY PROCESSION
The braid can move through public space, becoming a shared line between the artist, the audience and the surrounding environment.
VIDEO FOR EXHIBITION CONTEXTS
The performance can also exist as a video excerpt for exhibitions, screenings and installation formats.
OBJECT / INSTALLATION
The braid, doll, drawings, collage and related objects can form a visual and sculptural environment around the performance.
Each presentation responds to the language, architecture and social context in which the work is encountered.
VIDEO / EXHIBITION EXCERPT
Video excerpt from Fils d’identité.
The work can be presented as a live ritual performance, a multilingual audio piece, a participatory procession or an exhibition video.
SELECTED PROJECTS
SAFE SPACE
A project about the fragile architecture of safety after displacement. The work transforms the memory of temporary shelter into a visual space of protection, vulnerability and survival.
DYSPHORIA. INTIMATE DIARY
An intimate moving-image work exploring dysphoria, visibility and the unstable relationship between the body, image and self-recognition.
FAIRY TALE FOR LGBTQ+
A poetic animated work built from drawing, voice, sound and queer mythology. The project follows an emotional journey through isolation, pain, resilience and transformation, speaking to LGBTQ+ lives under pressure, silence and repression.
NOT WOMAN ENOUGH. FEMININITY ON MY OWN TERMS
A visual series about femininity outside permission, normativity and social approval. The work treats the body as a site of authorship rather than proof.
RUSSIAN DOLL
A former music project and album archive. Although the artist no longer works primarily as a singer, these songs remain part of Boginya Von Art’s artistic history, queer self-mythology and early construction of public identity.
MUSIC ARCHIVE
Boginya Von Art’s earlier music releases are available on streaming platforms. Although the artist no longer works primarily as a singer, this archive remains part of her queer self-mythology, public voice and artistic history.
CONTACT
For performances, exhibitions, screenings, rituals, ceremonies, collaborations, curatorial enquiries and press:
Boginya Von Art is based in Switzerland and available for live performance, exhibition video, installation formats, artist talks, rituals, ceremonies and collaborations.
