Quinsy Gario (Curaçao/St. Maarten/The Netherlands) is a performance poet and visual artist who focuses on decolonial remembering and disruption. His most well known work Zwarte Piet Is Racisme critiqued the racist Dutch practice of Black Pete. He is a 2017/2018 BAK fellow, 2017 Humanity In Action Detroit Fellow, a 2020 APASS graduate and a 2020/2021 Sandberg Institute Critical Studies Fellow. He was awarded among other prizes the Royal Academy Master Thesis Prize 2017, the Black Excellence Award 2016 and won together with Glenda Martinus and Jörgen Gario the Amsterdam Fringe Festival Silver Award 2015.

At Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Gario performed at the international performance festival Permanente Beunruhigung (Permanent Disturbance – 2017), gave the lecture When Artists Refuse (2023) and premiered GUTS: Glenda’s Unique Travel Stories (2023) in collaboration with Family Connection. Tracing a Memory Pt. III, first performed in 2023, is his debut solo work at Ballhaus Naunynstraße.