The artist duo SIGNA consists of the Danish performance-installation artist Signa Sřrensen (b. 1975) and the Austrian media and performance artist Arthur Köstler (b. 1972). Around the world, their ‘performance installations’ count among the most unusual and innovative art projects on the Scandinavian art scene from recent years. Celebrated by the press as highly unconventional, enigmatic and off-keel, extremely demanding and innovative, SIGNA carries out its projects with tremendous success internationally (Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Spain and Argentina; works in Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Ukraine are currently in preparation).
Their artistic work cannot easily be ascribed to a particular category, as SIGNA combines a wide and diverse range of different art forms. The basic concept of their artistic stagings, however, is based on the installation. They work site-specifically and geared to the particular location by re-defining empty, disused buildings and grounds and transforming them into a theatre space detached from the flow of time, into an artificial world to be explored and inhabited by the audience.
SIGNA projects: “Die Erscheinungen der Martha Rubin/The Ruby Town Oracle” (Schauspiel Köln 2007, Berliner Theatertreffen 2008), “The Dorine Chaikin Institute” (Nordwind-Festival, Berlin 2007), “Nights at the Hospital (Royal Danish Theatre, 2007), “The Silvana Experiments” (EXIT 06 in Kunstforeningen Gammel Strand 2006), “The Black Rose Trick” (Malmř 2005), “Secret Girl” (Junge Hunde Festival auf dem Meininger Theater 2004), “Twin Life instant new identities” (Copenhagen 2001).
