Alex Dermatis is a Berlin-based performance artist whose practice explores intimacy, trust, vulnerability, and the emotional possibilities of the body. Working with ropes, movement, and long-duration performance, he creates encounters in which physical restriction becomes a way of examining presence, care, and connection.

 

    Dermatis studied history of art at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he specialized in performance studies. Since relocating to Berlin, he has developed a long-term practice spanning public performances, private workshops, lectures, and collaborative projects. At the center of his work is the encounter between bodies. Rope functions not simply as a medium of restraint, but as a way to negotiate trust, responsibility, vulnerability, and care.

 

    Through extended durational performance, he channels decades of aerial and somatic discipline to turn touch, weight, and tension into temporary architectures of shared vulnerability.