KMZ KOLLEKTIV

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KMZ Kollektiv is a Berlin-based theater collective founded by Laia RiCa, Antonio Cerezo, Yahima Piedra Córdova, and Daniela del Pomar. Working together since 2021 and formally established in 2023, the group develops interdisciplinary productions shaped by material theatre, performance, and autobiographical research.


Each creation begins with the exploration of a specific material, treated as a protagonist and interwoven with biographical and documentary elements, live music, and real-time visuals. Their works have received multiple awards and continue to be presented at festivals and theaters internationally.

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PRODUCTIONS

KAKAO

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An interactive material theatre performance exploring the hidden global histories behind chocolate. Through sound, video, and the materials cacao and sugar, the audience is invited to reflect on consumption, pleasure, and the origins of food.


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FÜNF EXPONATE

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A biographical material performance examining colonial legacies and the Western gaze through potatoes, plaster, and autobiographical narratives. The work explores restitution, heritage, and decolonial perspectives within contemporary museum contexts.

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Performer · Composer · Live Musician

KAFFEE MIT ZUCKER?

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A material performance combining biographical and contemporary documentary theatre.

Through coffee and sugar, the work examines German migration in Central America, colonial continuities, and the tension of living between worlds. Documentary fragments, autobiographical material, video, scent, and live music merge into a dense and sensorial reflection on colonial memory and everyday consumption.

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WARM WIE DIE KOHLE

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Germany has doubled its coal imports from Colombia. The coal comes from Cerrejón, a vast open-pit mine on Wayúu territory.

For the Wayúu, the mountain is a living being — inhabited by spirits and deities.

What is being extracted and shipped to Germany?

And what travels with it?

Warm like the coal calls these displaced presences into Berlin, exploring extraction as both material and spiritual disruption.

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Performer · Composer · Live Musician

POPKORN

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According to the Popol Vuh, humanity was created from maize.

Today, that sacred grain is genetically modified, patented, and owned by corporations like BAYER.

What happens to a creation myth when each seed requires a license fee?

In this multimedia performance, maize takes center stage while the collective becomes its machinery and environment. Through cameras, microphones, and sensors, maize speaks about its own existential crisis — caught between ancestral myth and corporate control.

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ZEA MAYS

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Often reduced to a cinema snack or a yellow cob, maize has become the world’s most harvested grain — embedded in animal feed, biofuel, packaging, clothing, and everyday consumption.

Tracing its journey from the Maya creation myth to colonial expansion, GMO scandals, and its replanting through indigenous agricultural practices in Berlin, ZEA MAYS follows maize across myth, industry, and resistance.

With live sound, cameras, and popcorn machines, the performance exposes global food systems and calls for ecological responsibility: Eat local. Act global.

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Performer · Composer · Live Musician

Other Theatre Collaborations

DON'T STOP DREAMING

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A theater production created by children for young audiences, exploring the fragile boundary between dreams and reality. Memories, fears, and imagination merge into a shifting world where playful fantasies can suddenly turn into nightmares.

Developed in collaboration with GRIPS Theater Berlin as part of the participatory project Props gehen raus, the piece was conceived and directed by children, who guided professional performers through their dream worlds.

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Performer · Composer · Live Musician

BLUTBUCH

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Inspired by the award-winning novel Blutbuch by Kim de l’Horizon, this theater production explores identity, language, and inherited histories.

Four performers create a shifting garden of stories, songs, and shared memories — searching for new ways of speaking about the body, family, and queerness beyond inherited structures of language and identity.

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Original music composed on invitation by JES Stuttgart.

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