Muna Mussie (Eritrea 1978) began her artistic career in 1998, training and working as an actress and performer with Teatrino Clandestino until 2001. In 2002 she attended the European Advanced Training Course for the Actor, conducted by Cesare Ronconi of the Valdoca Theater and continues collaboration as an actress until 2012. From 2001 to 2005 she was a founding part of the Open research collective, where following the performance opentolikemunamussie (2005) she began to develop the desire to investigate her own ways of being on stage. Muna Mussie’s work, between gesture, vision and word, investigates the languages ​​of the stage and of the performing arts to give shape to the tension that arises between different expressive poles. Among the productions: Più che piccolo, media (2007), Con Permetto (2008), site specific project for Galata Perform Istanbul, I dreamed of you, but you weren’t the protagonist (2009). She is the author with Flavio Favelli of the FFMM clothing collection (2007-2009). Among the international stage projects: Monkey See, Monkey Do (Chapter I-II, 2011-2012). His recent productions, including the installation and performance Milite Ignoto (2015), the performances Oasi (2018), Curva (2019), Curva Cieca (2021) and PF DJ (2021), investigate ghostly apparitions and minor history . Among the object-based interventions, noteworthy are the Punteggiatura project (2018), and Bologna St. 173 (2021), a personal exhibition from Archive sites Milan, on the concepts of home, citadel, fortress and freedom and Bologna St. 173, A journey backwards ( 2023), his personal exhibition in the Project Room of the MAMbo Museum launches a new research on Eritrean Congresses and Festivals in Bologna through the historical and private archives of the city of Bologna. This is followed by the performance Bientôt l’été (2021) on mental nomadism and wandering, and PERSONA (2022), an ad personam meeting mediated by the practice of sewing. The recent projects Oblio (2021) and Oblio/Pianto del Muro (2022) introduce research into public art. His work has been presented at Art Fall/PAC Ferrara, , Rue d’Alger/ Manifesta 2020 Marseille, Archive Books Milan, SAVVY contemporary Berlin, Short Theater Rome, Artefiera Bologna, HangarBicocca Milan, Biennale Democrazia Turin, Mattatoio Rome, Sesc San Paolo, Kunstencentrum BUDA Kortrijk, SZENE Salzburg, Centrale Fies Dro, Black History Month Florence, Spazio Griot Rome, Villa Romana Florence, MuCEM Marseille, MAXXI L’Aquila.