VestAndPage - Verena Stenke & Andrea Pagnes

Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes work together since 2006 as VestAndPage concentrating mainly on Performance and Video Art. Together, they found within these disciplines the perfect common ground to investigate topics they concern: impermanence, fragility, transformation, memory activation and a translative poetry.
The Venetian born Andrea Pagnes has achieved his Master Diploma in Art Critic and Museology and the Degree in Modern Literature and Philosophy in Venice, the Diploma of Social Theatre Actor from IsoleComprese Teatro Florence, and in Creative Writings (method Raymond Carver, Rome). He has published art essays, prose and poetry and worked as translator, journalist and independent curator and coordinator for site projects for several Venice Biennales. As visual artist, he exhibited his paintings, sculptures and installations internationally.
The German Verena Stenke studied Fine Arts and Makeup artistry. She trained martial arts, Contemporary and Butoh dance during her living in Berlin. In Florence she studied in intensive laboratories with Kassim Bayatly theatre and rites and dances of Sufism, as well as Social Theatre with IsoleComprese Teatro. She works in video arts, and evolved her personal way of performative expression integrating techniques of sound as well as mask- and make-up artistry.
VestAndPage exhibit their art works in Europe, Asia, the United States and South America.
They give lectures on their researches and publications as well as practical workshops on performance art in renowned international institutions.
They are idea makers and coordinators of the current FRAGILE - global performance chain journey.

www.vest-and-page.de