Valentino Skarwan is an Austrian–Guatemalan multidisciplinary artist and performer living and working between Vienna and Guatemala City. Their practice moves between performance, installation, and site-specific interventions, constructing environments that unfold as fragmented scenes in which bodies, materials, and gestures carry desire, intimacy, and ecological attention. Skarwan approaches the body as a porous and relational system, shaped by its surroundings and entangled with memory, residue, and transformation.

Their work unfolds across formats and contexts, from stages to exhibition spaces and public sites. Traces, residues, and unfinished gestures function as narrative elements, allowing spaces to hold quiet hauntings and embodied histories.

Skarwan’s work has been presented in institutional and independent contexts internationally, both through their own projects and in collaboration, including Mumok (Vienna), Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Zeitraumexit, Kiosko, MoMA Warsaw, Tanzhaus Düsseldorf, and Sharp Projects, among others. Recent works include Some Foreplay, Lovers of Compost, presented at Belvedere 21 (2023) as part of Über das Neue and at Klima Biennale Wien (2024), and Lost Encounters, They Cling, presented at Spit Festival (Tanzquartier Wien, 2025), which received the runner-up award for the Queer Art Prize (2026).

They have performed in works by Doris Uhlich at ImPulsTanz Festival and Wiener Festwochen, and have collaborated with artists including Gelatin, Young Boy Dancing Group, Hugo Canoilas, Daniela Georgieva, Annie Sprinkle, and Beth Stephens, among others.

Their project We All Shapeshift received the Simacek Art Award (2025) and was exhibited at Künstlerhaus as part of the Ö1 Talent Scholarship (2024) nomination.

Valentino Skarwan joins the EXERCE workshop by Rémi Hertiér at Agora, Cité internationale de la Danse in the frame of Capacity Grid.