Andrea Božić (HR/NL) is a choreographer and artist based in Amsterdam. Her educational background includes dance, theatre, literature, English, film and media art. In Croatia, she studied modern dance and earned a degree in Comparative Literature and English Language at the University of Zagreb. In the Netherlands, she graduated from the School For New Dance Development and the Amsterdam Master of Choreography (DAS Choreography), both at the Academy of Theatre and Dance, Amsterdam.
Her work is in-disciplinary and takes form of performance, audio-visual installation and other formats often in collaboration with the moon and night sky. The work re-organises attention and space, creating paradoxical situations to ask questions about spectatorship, imagination, perception, the politics of gaze, presentation of reality and the organisation and distribution of authorship. Her research overlaps dream logic and gameplay strategies, scientific principles (cosmology, quantum physics) and mysticism, exploring how – when these other logics are transposed and projected onto the everyday - this can allow for other perceptions and imaginaries to emerge.
With Julia Willms, Andrea has been developing Spectra - Space Is an Organism, a long-term artistic research into attention and space and how their re-organisation affects one's sense of reality and the modes of spectatorship emerging from it. Spectra works incorporate the larger space and the audience's presence in it as part of the work.
In the coming years, Andrea and Julia are developing a performative-cinematic multiverse under the title LUNARIS, a fictional shared world embedded in the real world which will host a constellation of artistic works as a transmedia labyrinth: several performances and audio-visual performative installations and related smaller works. For LUNARIS, they collaborate with the Premonitions Agency, a specu-fictional government funded agency whose task is to collect, analyse and interpret citizens’ dreams, and to intervene into those dreams in an attempt to affect real-life events. With LUNARIS, they explore how spectatorship, imagination and spectacle are intertwined, embodied and felt amidst the next wave of digitalization and globalization, and the questions of free will, agency and sentience within it.
Recent works include the performances Within Cells Interlinked, Dream Archive: Live Collection, How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19), PoroCity and Orange Night, as well as audio-visual installations Looking-Glass House, Civil Twilight (Choreography for 450 nm and 600 nm), Zandloper (Hourglass), The Cube and Through the Looking Glasses by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms in collaboration with the moon and the night sky.
Her work has been presented at numerous festivals and venues internationally within the performing and visual arts (Frascati, SPRING, Oerol, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, Vooruit, HAU, ImpulsTanz, Reina Sofia Museum, Centre Pompidou Metz, de Appel Arts Centre, Dance Week Festival, a.o.). It was produced by Frascati from 2003-2012. From 2009-2012, Andrea was artist-in-residence at the International Choreographic Arts Centre Amsterdam (ICK).
Andrea and Julia are artistic directors of TILT since 2012, an Amsterdam-based in-disciplinary platform with a focus on artistic research and creation, realisation and dissemination of their performance and visual arts works as well as that of TILT associate artist performance and theatre maker Billy Mullaney. TILT also focuses on the development of discourse, workshops, educational and curatorial activities departing from artistic practice and theory. TILT is based at the Spectra | Studio in Marci Panis, Amsterdam and receives structural subsidy from the Amsterdam Fund for the Art for the period 2025-2028.
Together with Nicole Beutler and Marijke Hoogenboom, Andrea was co-initator and curator of the summer academy We Live Here in Amsterdam. With Nicole Beutler and Keren Levi, she has initiated and curated three editions of the Come Together Festival and is one of the co-founders of BAU - dance and performance Amsterdam.
Since 2018, Andea and Julia have curated a series of Spectra Salons, in-disciplinary evenings across performance and visual arts at Marci Panis in Amsterdam supported by the Stadsdeel Oost.
From 2012-2023, Andrea was core tutor at DAS Theatre, and since 2023 she gives an annual transmedia research lab at DAS Theatre in collaboration with iDLab, departing from her artistic practice and research. From 2012-2015, she was mentor at DAS Choreography, both are Master programmes at DAS Graduate School, Academy for Theatre and Dance Amsterdam. She was researcher at DAS Research (2016-2018) and a research fellow at THIRD, DAS Graduate School, 2019-2022. Andrea has collaborated with many artists, most notably with sonic artist Robert Pravda (co-founder of TILT) and choreographer and performance artist Ivana Muller, and has presented her work frequently at conferences and symposia. She has published texts about her work and given workshops and labs internationally (Royal Academy of Art The Hague, ArteZ Master of Theatre Practices, SPRING Academy, DAS Graduate School, Banff Arts Centre, Dance Week Festival, Academy of Dramatic Arts, Zagreb, among many others).
