Lily Schlinker (1999, she/her) is a young visual and performing artist from Berlin.
Between 2018-2022 she studied contemporary circus at Codarts - Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Rotterdam (NL), where she specialized in partner acrobatics and partnering dance. Since 2020 Lily works as a freelance photographer and illustrator. She found her passion in print media and works for two of the biggest circus magazines in Europe. She is the artistic director and layouter of the Handstand Press Magazine and part of the core editors team at tadaa Magazin.

 

Her debut full length performance Lily created together with Janick Kremer
between 2021 and 2023 and toured internationally. With its simplistic but meaningful scenography, it is a visual experience that works on the border between performing and visual arts.

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Lily is fascinated by the human body and especially how the female body is portrayed and not fully understood yet in all its capabilities. Her bachelor thesis investigated: How can the menstrual cycle influence the training and performing of menstruating people? And with that she self-published her first magazine: PERIOD!
 

Currently Lily is working on her first photography book ARCHES, which explores the connection between urban architecture and performing bodies. ARCHES will be published in 2025. Pre-order it here.