Tomas GONZALEZ (CARDELLINI | GONZALEZ)

Profile

Born in Lausanne (Switzerland). Lives and works in Lausanne. Graduated with a Bachelor of Theatre from La Manufacture – Haute école des arts de la scène, Lausanne, in 2012, and a Bachelor of Arts and Humanities from the University of Lausanne in 2010.
Gonzalez is an artist and researcher. He teaches at La Manufacture–HEARTS since 2017, offering an embodied approach to the history of acting. His artistic research focuses on processes of copying and imitation. He also collaborates with directors Jérôme Bel, Milo Rau, Fanny de Chaillé, Stefan Kaegi, Mohammad Al Attar and Sara Leghissa.

Recent activities
2025 “El Viaje,“ itinerant performance, kunstencentrum Viernulvier, Gent, Festival de Marseille, Base Milano (touring)
2025 “This is a trap,“ performance-installation, Museum of Art and History, Neuchâtel
2025 “FRKS,“ group piece, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
2022 “Un Spectacle,” site-specific piece, Ménagerie de verre, Paris
2021-25 “L’Âge d’or,” site-specific performance, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne (European tour)

Awards
2024 Swiss Theatre Days, shortlist best performances
2023 Label Plus Romand

About worka

Gonzalez forms, together with fellow artist Igor Cardellini, the duo CARDELLINI | GONZALEZ. Their shared research engages with architecture in an expanded sense, from spatial and institutional design to architectures of power, and examines how these structures shape identities, bodies, behaviours, and imaginaries. Through site-specific works, guided formats and performative dispositifs, they develop projects situated in public spaces, exhibition contexts and theatrical frameworks, where the body becomes a tool to question existing environments.