Lena Pfäffli ~ Keywords: curating, writing, expanded choreography, infrastructural critique, infrapolitics, artist-run, selforganization, score

Lena Pfäffli (b. 1997 in Zurich, CH) lives and works between Berlin and Zurich. Her work navigates the intersections of artistic, organizational, curatorial, and academic practice within both self-organized and institutional contexts. She has co-curated the art spaces Kulturfolger (Zurich) and sic! (Lucerne) and co-founded a feminist collective in Zurich. Since 2020, she has been involved in different capacities at the Shedhalle in Zurich, contributing to the implementation of the process-based curatorial project ProtoZones 2020-2025, which investigates process as a methodology for exhibition- and institution-making. Her current choreographic and theoretical research focuses on infrapolitical scores—gestures that disrupt institutional infrastructures to create counter-hegemonic protocols.

*Learn more about Lena Pfäffli's 20 minute performance There For The Taking for Chameleon Orbit ~ DAI's Aeroponic Acts 2024 at Centrale Fies in Italy. 

*Learn more about Lena Pfäffli's written MA thesis (DAI, 2024): A Cut. Cuts In The Air. Infrapolitical Scores and ProtoZones 2020–2025, Shedhalle

*During her journey with DAI, Lena made significant contributions to: COOP Summit 2023 ~ Cure for the Itch as well as COOP SUMMIT 2024 ~ Meta/Mega TRANS - Modes of Narration   

*Follow Lena's 'Life after DAI' via her instagram