Magdalena Poost

tender collector
public space,  storytelling, & climate



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How to Peel an Orange

Boston Fringe Festival
The Rockwell 
Somerville, MA






May 12-15, 2026






Tragicomic clown show about falling in (and out) of love while the world slowly turns orange.

Selected to be produced as a full length production for the Boston Fringe Festival.





Written and Performed by Magdalena Poost

I made this for you

Kerr Studio, Lewis Center for the Arts
Princeton, NJ










May 4, 2023Immersive installation and dinner theater following a year-long series of pop-up community meals, experiential research, and oral history interviews on the role of meals as a shared space of memory, care, and climate change.

Recipient of the Creative & Community Leadership Award from the Lewis Center for the Arts.

Recipient of the Book Prize in Visual & Performing Arts from the Princeton Environmental Studies Department.


Advisor: Brian Eugenio Herrera 
Installation Assistance: Tess James and Allie Geiger Khanna.








River Rock

“Interworlds” Art and Science Exhibition
Butler College Art Gallery
Princeton, NJ







November 4 - December 9, 2022
Wire and fabric sculpture with accompanying chapbook of poetry reflecting on interviews with Lambertville, NJ community members following the flooding of Tropical Storm Ida. 

Forthcoming: River Rock audio narrative published through the Blue Lab



Curator: Barron Bixler



The Audre Lorde Parachute Project

Various pop-up locations





Ongoing Performance art practice centered around the usage of a rainbow parachute as an “alternative structure of care” which relies on communality, memory, and whimsy. Inspired by Audre Lorde’s The Master’s Tools essay.