Dyana Gravina (Italy) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, birth Doula, activist, mover, and community builder who lives and works in London. She is the founding director of Procreate Project and the Mother House Studios. Gravina has developed for over a decade curatorial and activist practices that pushes the boundaries of what we showcase, where we showcase it and how people experience it. Their interdisciplinary artistic and socially engaged practices highlight themes including politics of migration and class, intergenerational feminist collective organising, care, sexualities and genealogies, pushing for decentralised networks of knowledge sharing and collective memories.

Gravina completed her MA Gender Sexuality and Culture at Birkbeck University. Their performance actions, performative lectures, writing and images, have been seen and heard in the UK and internationally, collaborating with East Street Arts, Wellcome Collection, The Science Gallery London, The New York Times, Venice International Performance Art Week, Institute Centre of Photography ICP ( NYC), Art Basel / Richard Saltoun Gallery, Minusoffspace (Vienna), Unit London, Menoparkas Gallery (Kaunas), Gruentaler9 (Berlin).

Selected live performances and exhibitions include: Subverse/ive bodies group exhibition, Hypha Studios, London (2024); Collective birth of subversive subjectivity, Venice International Performance Art Week, Italy (2023); (Re)production,Open Eye Gallery, London (2022); ‘The Mothers Of Social Hygiene #1 and #2’, Unit London (2023); Menoparkas Gallery Kaunas, (Lithuania (2022); The Poison of a Thousand movements’ #1 and #2, performance Omnibus Theatre, 2023, Persona Festival, UK (2022), Artist in residence Domus Artists Residency, Italy, (2022), Naked Life, Spill Festival, UK (2021); Misplaced, Score #3: Becoming One With a Bag, Mis(s)placed Women? Performance Weekend and Community Gathering in Belgrade (2021).