MADS MARONE (1996) is a Swiss, Italian-American interdisciplinary artist.
As a creator of immersive, synesthetic environments, their practice unfolds through large-scale sensory landscapes activated by the body. Working at the intersection of feminism and Actionist performance, they approach the body as sculptural and poetic material.
Through smell, taste, sound, movement, and tactile matter, Mads constructs experiential situations that shift perception and destabilise fixed notions of identity. The body appears as both medium and archive: marked by scars, tattoos, and traces of lived experience, it becomes a site where personal and collective histories intersect. In ritualised settings, performers and audiences are invited to inhabit heightened states of awareness that move beyond language and rational structures.
Mads holds an MFA from the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) and studied dance at The New School – Eugene Lang College in New York with Neil Greenberg and Janet Panetta, and at London Contemporary Dance School. They have worked with The Living Theatre in Italy and performed with Hermann Nitsch’s Orgien Mysterien Theatre. Mads previously made theatre pieces with people with intellectual and physical disabilities in Switzerland.
Their work has been presented at Musée d’Art et d’Histoire (GE), Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Arsenic, Sofia Underground International Performance Festival, Lokal-Int, and Plast, among others. They have given artist talks at institutions including Musée Tinguely.
They are a founding member of SENSORIUM, a Geneva-based collective dedicated to contemporary performance and research.