Prop House
2025
Prop House is a flexible place
where production, performance
and archiving merge.
Pre-fractured Super 8
2024
What was planned as an effect leaves the screen and enters the real world. A new kind of effect that turns the
film location into a crime scene.
I will love you as you drift further into the corners where unfinished sentences no longer expect an ending
2025
The nicotine has eaten into the pinboard, it has settled deeper than any message.
Pre-fractured Proxy Geometry
2024
Pre-fractured objects are fractured from the beginning, they contain that which is already lost and that which has not yet become. As proxy geometry, they hide the underlying complexity and represent something that does not yet exist.
No Way To Step Back
2024
Animated upward from the eye: The cowboy’s journey to the moon first follows a linear narrative until he leaves Earth and enters orbit.
Stuck On You
2023
Shades of an Elvis who never existed, mutating into Elvis vampires in the glare of the flashlight, sucking out the aura of the icon to fill it with their own.
Pre-fractured Senat
2025
Architecture that promises transparency. A break extends from the Senate chamber. It follows the corridor, eats its way through to the assembly hall. Like a decision that is being postponed. Like a structure that could topple but holds up. Like a hierarchy that cracks without anyone being able to say whether it will break.
IMAX Projection Booth
2024
From MAX to Minimal:
The film experience is preserved as an empty shell. The idea of an advanced structure degenerates into a hollow space, its functionality becomes fiction.
Pre-fractured Staged Chaos
2024
How to make a special effect: Take architectural elements - bricks, glass, steel - break them in advance and animate the fragments so that the room seems to collapse in on itself. The anatomy of a destructive event, the impact of forces - physical, historical, social and ethical - on the material.
All The Birds Have Come
2023
With Elena Bastert
In the mountains, the feathers gather, singing of times long gone. An unlikely pair falls in love. The rats appear in their summer residence, speaking of great cities they’ve never quite survived.
Comdey Is A Serious Business
2024
With Benno Elender
Two clowns, two safety vests, and a row of special effects. What more could an audience ask for, except perhaps a clown already teetering on the edge of resignation?
Directors Chair
2023
Where one sits at the very top, on a chair of one’s own making. A flashlight in one hand to define meaning, and a pencil in the other to write it down before it escapes.
This Was Nothing Like High School Musical
2025
No closing speech, no closing
song but squeaking footsteps on
stone. No curtain that falls, just
a finish line that is crossed or
ignored.
Mickeys Left-Hand
2024
A ceramic copy of Mickey Mouse’s left hand. Wounded and left to fend for itself, it falls into old habits, gesturing with three fingers, fixing the X, Y, and Z axes and their origin point. We took one finger and then we got it back… or did we?
Pre-fractured Pavillon
2024
Its windows are shattered, forming patterns that resemble a mosaic, almost like church glass. Fragments that catch the light, quiet and incomplete.
Last Trip
2022
With Mina Reischer, Elena Bastert, Benno Elender, Mathis Hauter
A class sets off on a journey, only for their excursion to end in disaster.
Oscar Turns Mad
2023
With Ari Pilhofer, Theocharis Bekas, Benno Elender
An award ceremony, three films, and the question: who will receive the Oscar? Yet the Oscar refuses to be handed over. It becomes the star of the night itself, drunk on its own importance, smashing everything in sight.
Studio Tour: Big Chase
2023
A wreck abandoned, a tornado stilled, a lonely island left for dead. Once loud and moving, now silent and hollow. This is the set of Big Chase. Two cameras transmit motion-capture movements, only to turn into playback devices, looping ghosts of the past.
The Voices That Whisper Within The Stone
2023
Have you ever seen Stonehenge beneath a full moon? The stones shift on their own, forming a dark choir whose song is as unsettling as it is inevitable.
Sweetheart in Hell
2023
With Elena Bastert, Theocharis Bekas, Benno Elender, Helen Hetzel
A young poet meets an early death, but for him it is not the end. It is the beginning of a love story, forged in his wanderings through infernal realms.
Early Access Of
2022
The new Unreal Engine release has arrived. We are on site, guiding you through a tutorial on how to navigate it best. Always accompanied by rhythmic beats, as the tapping of the keyboard becomes part of the band itself.
Next Big Thing
2024
A new show is coming? A two-sided sign, upside down, marks and describes a road, a current, mirrored on the ceiling. Fixed times set the distances, weaving shortcuts and detours. The show remains an abstract destination, a direction forever missed.
This Was Nothing Like High School Musical
2025
Everyone wants the last day to be something special. Each hat, though identical in form, is marked and personalized, altered just enough to carry its own story.
Alessia Pennavaria & Joseph Lanzinger
Contact: pennavarialanzinger@gmail.com
We work between performance, sculpture, video, and animation, exploring duplication in the world of entertainment (where illusion, excess, and decay are inseparably intertwined). Our “Cardboard Generated Images” made from cardboard become sets, costumes, and effects that exist simultaneously on stage and in the exhibition space.
since 2019
1997
1994
Education
09/2017 - 05/2025
since 09/2021
2016 - 2020
Grants
2024
2023
Exhibitions (Selection)
2025
2024
2023
2022
collaboration
Alessia Pennavaria born in Nürnberg/Bayern, Germany
Joseph Lanzinger born in Bogen/Bayern, Germany
Pennavaria: Akademie der bildenden Künste, Nürnberg
with Prof. Michael Munding und Prof. Michael Stevenson
Staatsexamen
Lanzinger: Akademie der bildenden Künste Nürnberg with Prof. Michael Stevenson
Lanzinger: Technische Universität, Nürnberg, Bachelor Design
Award and appearance in the LfA art calendar of the Landesförderbank Bayern (Bavarian State Development Bank)
Academy Award from the AdbK Nuremberg for the exhibition Studio Tour: Big Chase
This was Nothing Like High School Musical - Diplomausstellung A.d.b.K Nürnberg
Next Big Thing - Borgo Ensemble, Nürnberg
Pre-fractured Left-handed Staged Chaos - Jahresausstellung, A.d.b.K. Nürnberg
Comedy Is A Serious Business - Kantine, Nürnberg
No Way To Step Back Only To Drift Aside - A.d.b.K. Nürnberg
Stuck on You - Kunstbunker, Nürnberg
Solfege and Scales - Kantine, Nürnberg
Studio Tour: Big Chase - Jahresausstellung, A.d.b.K. Nürnberg
Schrödinger’s Time Travel Cat - Mahagoni Festival, Leipzig
Beyond Belief - Desi, Nürnberg
Dear Developer - Gruppenausstellung, Kunstverein, Nürnberg
Hobbedy, Hobbedy - Jahresausstellung, A.d.b.K. Nürnberg (Sammlung Rotarier)
Zimmer 0 - Gruppenausstellung, Hinterconti, Hamburg