Stefania Milazzo was born in Catania, Sicily (Italy).
After her degree in molecular biology, she worked as a researcher in the CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) for cancer field in the UK & Germany. As a performer, photographer & videomaker she has participated in international festivals. Her scientific approach and her 10-year eco-somatic movement experience have always influenced her artistic practice. She has led intercultural projects for children, teenagers & adults with disabilities & migration background. In 2016 she founded the KidiMpro practice – body movement and improvisation for adults and kids. She currently teaches math and science at a school in Catania. She is the director of the sicilian cultural association Sicularte and also a member of the IFEEA International Forum of Eco-Embodied Arts.
Festivals, exhibitions and installations (selection):
Etna soul (2025) – Matter is Messy #1 I Embodied Ecologies, Graz, Austria (curator: Minou Tsambika Polleros); La Selva (2023) video documentary about the International Ecological Arts and eco-somatic residency (International roots and IFEEA) – Teatro del Lido di Ostia, Rome; Invisible tennis (2019) – photographic price, Ostrale Biennale 2019, Dresden, Germania; Tell me the Difference (2018) – FRAGILE/ handle with Care III Ed. Genova (curator: Benedetta Spagnuolo); Swing my Time (2015) – Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden; People arriving in Lampedusa (2015) – Askavusa, Lampedusa; Bleib Sauber, Keep it clean (2015) – geh8, Dresden, Germany; Jump back into the past, Sicily 2000 (2023) – Il Moro, Berlin, Germania; Tropfchen (2013) – One Shot Armenia, Video Minuto Torino; Sguardi particolari ovvero l’arte di usare la testa (2012) – special mention at Versi di Luce (RG), Corto d’autore (Gaeta), Cinemavvenire (Roma), Inventa un Film Leonola; Terra e Mare (2011) – Palazzo della Cultura, Catania, Studio RE.BA. Catania, Casa internazionale delle Donne, Roma (curator: Marina Zatta e Michela Melis) – Weinerei Nürnberg, Germany (curator: Meike Muenser); City Colours, (2010) – Segni 20×20, International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Atene, Grecia (curator: Rosanna Musumeci) – (2009) Cheap Art, International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Thessaloniki, Grecia (curator: Afroditi Oikonomidou); L’attesa (2009), special mention at Immagine Continua Berlin, Marzamemi FIlm Festival, Strange Screen Film Festival, Greece; In Aria (2008) Kunstpreis Langwasser, Nürnberg, Germany (curator: Eva Mack); Abuso (2008) first price at Strange screen Film Festival, Greece.
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