Campanilla (Ana Cortés) works across different disciplines at the intersection of performing, audiovisual and visual arts. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Cuenca and, under the pseudonym Campanilla, has for years created installations and video-performance pieces presented in both independent spaces and cultural institutions. Her audiovisual work has been shown in contexts such as BIDA (Valencia Biennial of Sport in Art), ARCO Electrónico, Doméstico, CCCB, Arts Santa Mònica, MACBA, CA2M, PHotoEspaña, La Casa Encendida and Casa de América.
Her practice also extends into live arts and collective creation processes. She is a member of Serrucho, a theatre company that explores the boundaries between stage language and installation. With the company she develops works such as Gran Norte, ARCHIVO, Interior Noche, Huerfanitas and Fogonazo, presented in contemporary theatre festivals and venues including Festival de Otoño de Madrid, TNT Terrassa, Citemor (Portugal), Sala Mutant in Valencia, FITT Tarragona, Teatre Principal d’Olot and CA2M in Móstoles. She also collaborates with various performing arts companies and projects, including Sociedad Doctor Alonso in the piece Hammamturgia and Orquestina de Pigmeos in Pigmeos do Mondego and Ningún lugar, and participates in the experimental television collective Neokinok TV at the Citemor festival (Portugal).
She is also part of the collective Paisanaje, a group devoted to exploration and action that addresses the ecosocial crisis through contemporary art. Within this framework she develops the line of work Hacer el saber, focused on recovering traditional practices and knowledge through collaborative processes. This research gives rise to projects such as Cancionero para manos and Óveda, developed at CFGL in Granada and with the esparto grass craft circle in Madrid. She also creates the carved piece Bandeja territorio, presented at Manifesta 15, and coordinates the construction of the cabins for the project Cabañas in Casa de Campo (Madrid), selected among the 20 finalist projects for the European Art Explora – Académie des beaux-arts Award 2025. She also participates in the ecofeminist festival Las Pueblas with the installation Manto Fluyente and the collective creation of the textile map of La Puebla.
In the collective project and performance Fulgor de Oscuro Temblor, she connects the city of Madrid with the Sierra del Rincón through an artistic process linking territory, community and landscape. She also develops Husos for Inland Campo Adentro at the CAR (Centro de Acercamiento a lo Rural) in Madrid, an action, experimentation and research laboratory focusing on the uses and issues surrounding wool.
Together with Raúl Alaejos, she is also part of Serrín, a creative laboratory that experiments with physical and audiovisual devices to generate new formats in the fields of art and communication. From this platform they develop public interventions and projects such as Convoy and Gran Convoy, mobile open-play areas for Matadero Madrid and Imagina Madrid, as well as high-impact media campaigns such as Niños políticos and the Greenpeace action Ludovico Einaudi in the Arctic.
In 2000 she co-founded, together with Iván Pérez, the video art festival 143 Delicias, an independent platform devoted to contemporary audiovisual creation which ran for eight editions in independent spaces and institutions in Madrid, including the studio at Paseo de las Delicias 143 and CA2M in Móstoles.
