Who Truly Knows What A Life Is? (2026)

A performer steps into the skin of Paula Modersohn-Becker, a pioneering force in German art, only to find the role refusing to stay on the surface. Drawn into the painter’s intimate orbit—alongside her husband Otto Modersohn, sculptor Clara Westhoff-Rilke, and poet Rainer Maria Rilke—she slips past the boundary of acting. What begins as a portrait becomes a possession, as the echo of the artist’s life starts to overwrite her own, blurring craft into confession and imitation into identity.