Lara Buffard is a French-Swiss performance artist, designer, and maker whose work blends surreal visuals with symbolic depth. Rooted in personal narratives and feminist strategies, her art explores the complexities of living in a gendered world. Lara transforms embroidery, textiles, and needlework into acts of resistance, reclaiming traditionally feminine crafts as tools for storytelling. Her performances inhabit dreamlike, liminal spaces where ritual meets reality, and softness becomes strength. With a background in Museology and Theatre Performance, Lara invites audiences into imaginative worlds where care, identity, and rebellion intertwine — challenging norms and reshaping meaning through texture, ritual, and poetic transformation.
Lara has performed across various venues, including in Switzerland at Kunsthalle Zürich, Tinguely Museum Basel, mudac, Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts Lausanne, Translocal Performance Art Giswil, Performance Reihe Neu-Oerlikon, SpazioELLE Locarno, Dimitri Theater, Verscio, Akku Kunstplatform Emmen. In the UK, her performances have taken place at the V&A Museum, Barbican, Tate Modern, LADA/LiveArtDevelopmentAgency, Chisenhaledance, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation and the Shakespeare Globe Theatre. She has also showcased her work in Spain at Matadero Madrid and the Festival Art d'Acció, in Germany at Sophiensaele Berlin and Theaterhaus Berlin, in Greece at Chimera Art Foundation and Kinono Performance Art Festival in Tinos and in Italy at Arsenale at Venice Biennale.

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Performance Neu-Oerlikon Art Festival
Jump!
2024
CH
UK
Costume Designer
Barry Can't Swim
2024
UK
CH
Performance, Genesis Zürich
Pachamama
2024
CH
GR
Costume Designer Greek National Opera
Living Room
2023
GR
UK
Performance V&A Museum London
Divatastque
2023
UK
UK
Performance Culpeper Garden
Green
2023
UK
UK
Costume Designer for Catherine Hoffmann
Wormhole of our Formation
2023
UK
CH
Costume Designer for Ilmars Stern
Etudes for Bones & Objects
2023
CH
UK
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
MAW
2022
UK
USA
PAUSA "Impromptus", Performance Art Festival New York
Breathe!
2022
USA
CH
Performance Tinguely Museum
Listen With My Eyes
2022
CH
UK
Collaboration with Sophie Cochevelou, Club Vanitas, The King’s Head, London
The Dollhouse
2022
UK