Lily Schlinker (1999, she/her) is a visual and performing Artist from Berlin. She studied Contemporary Circus at Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam (NL) and graduated with a bachelor specialising in partner acrobatics and partnering dance. Alongside working on stage in the duo Lily&Janick, still mediums have always been her other playground. In 2020 she started working as an editor and photographer for the German Contemporary Circus magazine, tadaa and since 2023 Lily has been the Artistic Director and Layouter of the Handstandpress Magazine.

In early 2024, Lily was invited to her first photography residency in Odense (DK) where she created a site-specific body of work with a following exhibition called “In Motion: Circus Path and Poetics of Space”. That year, her second international exhibition followed in the Hague (NL), highlighting female voices within the Performing Arts sector. ARCHES is her second publication after self-publishing her bachelor thesis Period!, which focussed on understanding the menstrual cycle and its effects on performing. Lily is fascinated by the human body and its extraordinary capabilities, she continues to explore its potential in a variety of mediums.

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