Luxenberg, Maja
Performance artist, composer, songwriter, and theatre educator, graduate of the Faculty of Acting at the Ludwik Solski State Theatre School (now the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts) in Cracow. This year she has received music-related scholarships from the City of Warsaw and ZAiKS Society of Authors. She has collaborated with the National, Ethnographic and Photography museums in Cracow, National Stary Theatre in Cracow, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, TR Warszawa, Polski Theatre in Poznań, and Wojciech Bogusławski Theatre in Kalisz.
Her works include the documentary-performative installation ACEland. Time for Work (December 2024, as part of her artistic residence “Survival of the Fittest? Philoctetes’ Survival” at Theatre 21 / Centre of Inclusive Art in Warsaw), three theatre productions at the Kazimierz Dejmek Nowy Theatre in Łódź staged in 2021–22 as part of the “New Theatre and Young Artists” programme curated by Remigiusz Brzyk(music composer and co-songwriter for We’re All Strange, dir. Olga Ciężkowska and Trashstory, dir. Jan Kanty Zienko, as well as co-author of the music show Kar Nawał), the musical activism project / queer street band “Di Libe brent wi a nase Szmate” (Yiddish for “Love Burns Like a Wet Rag”, with songwriter Justyna Bilik aka Łaja Szkło, 2018–24), street concert tour of “LGBT-free zones” (August 2023, on a grant from the FDO For a Change Fund, August 2023), and the original broadcast series “Apocalypse Radio” on the online indie Radio Kapitał (2020–22). Luxenberg is a member of the Girls in the Spectrum foundation, which supports LGBTQ+ girls and individuals in the autism spectrum, creating a safe space for such persons.