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Rosa Braber (1989) is a Dutch actress, performer, director, and writer, based in Vienna, Austria. In 2012, she graduated from the Toneelacademie Maastricht.
In 2013, Rosa moved to Vienna for love, and spent five years acting with Das Bernhard Ensemble. In 2019, she co-founded Wolf Collective with her sister, choreographer and dancer Donna Braber. Their first performance, Planet Sis, was nominated for a Stella Award. Known for merging art forms, their performances bring together actors, dancers, and musicians in a dynamic blend of creativity.
Rosa also directs four performances a year for young audiences at the Wiener Konzerthaus. In 2023, she joined the ATLAS program at the Impulstanz festival, focusing on solo performance. In 2025, she receives the Arbeitsstipendium from the City of Vienna for artistic research and development. Her research explores the life-altering impact of birth and motherhood on artistic practice, delving into the idea of the "primordial" and what it truly means. With this artistic research, she has been invited as an artist in residence at the Akureyri Art Museum in Iceland in May 2026. Rosa also works as a freelance actor.
As a writer, Rosa has performed her poetry and performative texts at various literary festivals, and her short stories and poems have been published on the literary platform Papieren Helden. In 2019, she was writer-in-residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie.
In her art, Rosa seeks the truth in the absurd and the absurd in our everyday reality. She loves blending the grandeur of "high art" with the grounded, no-nonsense energy of Rotterdam, all while soaking in the cultural influences of Vienna. She is a great admirer of David Lynch, and influences of his work and Lynchian elements seep into her own practice.
And, yes, she believes art does make the world more beautiful.