Anna Lublina

Anna Lublina plays with invented language, physical theater, puppets, unconventional instruments, ancestral rhythms, and stewardship between humans and the more-than-human world to affirm and celebrate life in the borderlands. Based between Berlin/Germany and New York City/USA, Lublina makes performance and community-led projects in theaters, museums, gardens, and anywhere people congregate. As a child of Soviet Jewry, they draw on the practices and aesthetics of Jewish diasporism, Soviet avant-garde, Soviet nostalgia, Jewish witchery, and the queer underground to ask questions and propose fantasies for anti-nationalist futures.

Their performances have been shown in places like St. Ann’s Warehouse, Ballhaus Ost Berlin, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Produkionhaus NAXOS, Judson Church, the 14th St Y, The Bloomfield Science Museum, Center for Performance Research, Bread and Puppet Theater, and more. They have been supported by fellowships and residencies such as the Ottilie-Roederstein award for female* artists (2024), Next Steps Crespo Foundation Stipendium (2025), all the rivers dance residency at Ausland Berlin (2025), Mar‘a’yeh LABA Berlin Fellowship at Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin (2024), CEC Artslink Fellowship in Uzbekistan (2024), ID Tanzhaus Frankfurt (2023), the International Jerusalem Fellowship (2022), Helix Fellowship at Yiddishkayt (2020–2022), and Plyspace Fellowship with Ball State University (2021.)

Lublina has worked as a director and dramaturg for many artists including Julie Weitz, Gry Tingskog, and Andros Zins-Browne. They have an MA in Choreography and Performance from Justus Liebig University Gießen/Germany (ATW) and a BA in Art History from Reed College, Portland/Oregon/USA. Their newest performance the land speaks premiered at Produktion Haus NAXOS Frankfurt/Germany and at Ballhaus Ost Berlin in April 2025. Their installation and performance Bukhara Peace Agency is currently on show at the Bukhara Biennial curated by Diana Campbell.