Zita Leutgeb



Zita Leutgeb (*1998, Vienna) is a spatial designer, curator and researcher with a background in architecture and dance. She holds a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urbanism, and Building Sciences from Delft University of Technology. Her thesis Bodies, Movement and Architecture: Towards Physical Resonances in Space bridged her experience as a trained ballet dancer with spatial design, exploring bodily resonances towards urban architectures in Rotterdam, NL. In her artistic research, the moving body weaves threads between art, architecture, body politics, queer theory and everyday practices.


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Selected works
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  1. Five Friends: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, Twombly
  2. Bodies, Movement & Architecture
  3. Dance Notation Drawings
  4. Measured, Performative, Open Body







4. Measured, Performative, Open Body



Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Year: 2024
Category: Artistic Research for Bodies, Movement and Architecture 







The collages and drawings trace the spatial journey of the measured, performative and open body. This journey becomes vivid in a collection of collages, drawings, and written stories. Inspired by the work of Swiss illustrator Warja Lavater, the drawings are read from top to bottom in relation to the accompanying texts and collages. Each drawing reveals a path through space—its encounters with objects, architectures, foreign sujets and tactile shapes. Together, they form a dramaturgical sequence, laying the ground for the design processes.


I (the traveler) embody the modern body. This is my first journey through the path.

I enter a spatial journey of intensified embodiment. My body is highly sensitive, my limbs are like antennas. I am tracing lines of connection. To the things in front of me, but also the energy around. To presences that are not visible. I have to cross static systems within the cartesian grid. Sometimes I am about to break the boundaries of geometric constraints. Indecision, Interruption & Surprise. In a blink of an eye, Bodies collide. 



I (the traveler) embody the performative body. This is my first journey through the path.

I embody flesh, crudeness, and the earthbound. In this path, I feel the ground vibrating to the sound of human exhales. Suddenly, the earth beneath the horizontal opens up. I fall into grounds of earthbound energies. I celebrate my body in its bare weight, in its interaction with the others, and the environment around me. This spatial journey is fascinating and frightening in its crudeness. Here, Bodies are celebrated in their power and in their fragility. 



I (the traveler) embody the open body. This is my first journey through the path.

I need to drop my body into a liquid space to allow all the elements around me to come to life. Each single gesture becomes a destiny. I open my eyes, confronted by a misty soup of eternal touches and dreams. It feels like I can reach the clouds of cosmic souls. On my journey I encounter gender travelers, space-transformers, children, and ex-measured bodies longing for non-existence. At night I feel their steamy breath in my neck. In the morning strong rays of sun clear the space from the steam. I can feel the amphibiation of my body, merging into an Uranian universe. Spaces dissolve into enteral harmony.