02/10/2026
You’re Invited: Gustavo Gomes Studio Visit
October 7th, Wednesday, 17.00 - 19.00
📍Performistanbul
The Man Who Takes Space is an ongoing artistic research series by artist Gustavo Gomes investigating masculinity, power, territory, occupation, and the body through performance, film, installation, and movement. Developed through years of research in Brazil, Germany, Armenia, Georgia, France, Spain, Turkey, Portugal, and Denmark, the open studio brings together works and extracts including Manhandle, Occupations, Fasces, Tintinnabulum, Priapos, Spreading, Erections, and the upcoming work Occupied with Performistanbul. The open studio offers an insight into how this research develops into artistic practice, revealing the processes, materials, encounters, and questions that shape the works.
About Gustavo Gomes
Gustavo Gomes is a performer, choreographer, teacher, researcher, and filmmaker based in Cologne, Germany. His artistic research focuses on masculinities, power, territory, identity, and the body, developed over several years through his ongoing series of works, The Man Who Takes Space. He has continued to develop this research through international residencies at Forecast Platform, HELLERAU, TalentLAB/Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, WELTKUNSTZIMMER, the EKARD Residency, Quartier am Hafen, the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, the NRW KULTURsekretariat Lisbon Research programme, Atelier Galata / Kunststiftung NRW in Istanbul, Copenhagen Dance Studios, Can Pep Nebot in Mallorca, and currently at Performistanbul. His practice brings together performance, choreography, film, installation, and research, examining how masculinity and systems of power are embodied and negotiated through the body and space.
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