Yulia Arsen is an interdisciplinary artist and choreographer who works at the intersection of dance, theater and contemporary art.
She studied contemporary dance in Munich (Iwanson) and in Kassel (SOZO vim) and later performed her own works in Radialsystem (Berlin), mumok (Vienna), SAAL Biennaal (Tallinn) and in other venues and festivals in Germany, Russia, Estonia, Ireland, Romania and Austria.
Making solos is her main art practice. In 2022 her solo ‘plastic bag’ was selected for the AEROWAVES Twenty 22 and in 2023 her solo ‘the whip’ was premiered on ImPulsTanz.
Along with producing solos, she has been actively developing tools that aim to push creative professionals of different backgrounds into 'making'. They were put together as a solo workshop that was invited to CNDB (Bucharest), Dance Limerick, and Tanzhouse Temporar (Kassel).
Another strong interest of hers is making pieces through laboratory processes with a mixed group of performers. She is inspired by unique bodies and the variety of backgrounds, their non-similarities, and the possibilities of being together.
Before the war, she was a resident at the Meyerhold Centre, Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, collaborated with V-A-C foundation as well as with various independent art institutions and theaters. She left Russia after the invasion of Ukraine in a disagreement with the government's actions in 2022.
Now she is based in France, where she became an Adami fellow (2023) and established her company Bedroom Community (2025). At the moment she is working on the trilogy Forever Lost: a nostalgic series of lost futures, contains of 3 chapters: Do you really wanna live forever, Utrennik and After Party.
