Pure Fiction Presents

Pure Fiction (Rosa Aiello, Ellen Yeon Kim, Erika Landström, Luzie Meyer and Mark von Schlegell) presents a programme of performances combining monologue, song, sound, video, and theatre.

Since 2012, the group has worked across writing and performance between art and literature. With shifting constellations of members, it has produced exhibitions, publications, theatre, music, workshops, readings, and staged adaptations of classical theatre plays in international exhibition contexts, alongside eleven anthologies of poetic, experimental, and narrative writing.

Pure Fiction (Rosa Aiello, Ellen Yeon Kim, Erika Landström, Luzie Meyer and Mark von Schlegell) is a collective founded in 2012. Pure Fiction is a writing and performance group working between art and literature. With shifting constellations of members, the group has produced exhibitions, publications, theatre, music, workshops and readings, and staged adaptations of classical theatre plays at international exhibition venues. Since its inception, Pure Fiction has published eleven anthologies of poetic, experimental and narrative writing by members and invited contributors.

Ellen Yeon Kim lives and works in Berlin. Kim works across sound, installation, text, and performance. Her practice investigates suffering through fragmented narratives and spatial arrangements. Following the onset of illness, Kim took time off and has resumed her practice in limited capacity.

Mark von Schlegell is a writer, an [insert specific label here] artist, and based in Cologne.

Rosa Aiello is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. Her works, at once intimate and alienating, primarily take the form of time-based media: experimental films, as well as architectural installation and photographic series. She is interested in structures; both social constructs, like the family, and the actual built world, like architecture and city infrastructure. Her most recent solo shows include Westfälischer Kunstverein, Muenster (2025), Mint, Stockholm (2024), Anorak e.V, Berlin (2023), Kevin Space, Vienna (2022), Her works have been shown at Kasseler Dokfest, Matatabi Moving Image, Centre Pompidou, Fluentum, ICA London, The Whitney Museum, Cittipunkt, and SculptureCenter among others.

Erika Landström is an artist and writer working in performance, sculpture, and printed matter.

​Luzie Meyer works with time-based media, photography and text. Recent projects include the solo exhibition Betrayals of the Possible at Fanta-MLN, Milan; the group show repeatedly failing to align with light at Camera Austria, Graz; and Trauerspiel, a tragic monologue in collaboration with the actor Leila Grey, hosted by the Kunstverein Schwerin.