Lina Issa (1981) is a mother, artist, curator and writer among several other identities. She lives in Palermo and works between different contexts and geographies. Lina left Lebanon for a postgraduate research fellowship in Fine Arts at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, The Netherlands (2003-2005). She then earned a Master in Visual Arts from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL (2006). Since then she has worked, alone and in collaboration with others, in a range of media like performance, writing, video, cultural programming. She has been part of Dancing on the edge’s curatorial team since 2018.
Lina’s work revolves around themes of embodied memory, displacement and the performativity of (cultural)identity.
Her debut literary non-fiction with the title “Where we are not: ten days in the life of an other”, was published in Dutch by Van Oorschot, Amsterdam in 2022.