Belle Santos (GER/CAN/ESP)

 is a Berlin-based artist working across installation, performance, stage- and costume design. She studied Drama and Theater Studies at Trinity College Dublin and Freie Universität Berlin, and holds a masters degree in Performance & Live Arts from Goldsmiths College London.

Recent works include the performance MORNING TIME at Kyoto Art Center, Japan, the choreographic piece MATADORA at Pogo Bar / KW – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, as well as the performative installation THE WAKE at transmediale studio, Berlin & Theater Neumarkt, Zurich.

She attended a three-month residency at Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto (2022), invited by the Goethe Institut and was a visiting fellow at the Saison Foundation in Tokyo (2018, 2023, 2024 and 2025). This year she was selected by the German Cultural Ministry (BKM) to attend the 6-month residency program at the CITÉ DES ARTS INTERNATIONAL in Paris, France.

She is a founding member of the performance company THE AGENCY, sharing the artistic direction with Sofie Luckhardt, Magdalena Emmerig, Rahel Spöhrer and Yana Thönnes, with whom she worked between 2015 – 2022. Their works were presented nationally and internationally, at festivals such as the Athens Biennale, Tanz im August, Donau Festival and Radikal Jung, to name a few. They created more than 15 immersive theatrical works, including ‘Love Fiction’, ‘Medusa Bionic Rise’, ‘Mater Dolorosa Bleed’ and ‘Solastalgia’

Her stage- and costume work has brought her to several theaters, including the Volksbühne Berlin, Volkstheater Wien, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Schauspielhaus Hannover, Residenztheater München, Theater Bremen, Opernhaus Aachen, Theater Rotterdam and Nemetski Theater Kazakhstan. She worked with Elsa Sophie Jach, Ran Chai Bar-zvi, Leonie Böhm, Tilman Hecker, Samara Hersch, Lucia Bihler and Philip Arnold. A very close relationship connects her to the artist Nile Koetting, whom she regularly collaborates with. Her costume-work for his performances were presented internationally at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum, Shanghai, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah and Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.

She designed the costumes for the film ’2038’, directed by Christopher Roth, which was the key-work at the German Pavilion of the Venice Biennale for Architecture in 2020. Her most recent cinematic work was designing the costumes for the film ‘Allegro Pastell’, based on the novel by Leif Randt, directed by Anna Roller, and set for release in the autumn of 2025.