Martin Reinartz
Martin B. Reinartz is a French artist and writer engaged in research‑creation practices. He was born in Meurthe‑et‑Moselle (Lorraine). After studying literature in Paris, he trained in acting at La Manufacture – Haute école des arts de la scène in Lausanne (2016–2019), where he developed an approach that interweaves writing, performance, and fieldwork.
After graduating, he continued learning alongside other artists, working as an assistant director with choreographer Mathilde Monnier and director Daria Deflorian, as well as through a long‑term collaboration with Claire de Ribaupierre and Massimo Furlan, in both stage and site‑specific creations.
In 2023, a writing residency at the Jan Michalski Foundation enabled him to begin Recoudre, his first personal writing project. Since 2022, his residency with least – Geneva has provided a framework for situating his work within ecological artistic practices, in dialogue with questions of environmental and territorial justice and with researchers in the social sciences.
His projects emerge from periods of field research: staying in a place, walking, sharing gestures, meeting people and their practices, allowing stories to surface before deciding on a form. From this material, the work may take shape as a stage piece, walking performance, text, podcast, or reading, depending on the context and possible modes of circulation. Each project seeks to invent ways of meeting, opening spaces of exchange between those involved in the research and the publics.
As a performer, he works with Massimo Furlan & Claire de Ribaupierre, Robert Cantarella, Florence Rivero, Christian Geffroy Schlittler and Mathilde Monnier.
