Donna Ladee Dominik Cosentino (1989, Milan) is a transdisciplinary artist whose practice spans sculpture, scent, glass, and mixed media extended reality formats. Bridging the tactile and the virtual, Cosentino explores the politics of erasure, absence, and embodied memory through research-driven and intuitive processes. Guided by queer and intersectional feminist thought, their work seeks out to uncover the silences of power and the politics of disappearance, reclaiming what is often unseen yet enduring.

With a background in Architecture and Fashion Design, their spatial thinking merges with critical aesthetics to reclaim narratives and question the politics of presence. Experiences at Atelier Van Lieshout introduced them to material-based conceptual strategies, while their work with Maison Viktor & Rolf immersed them in narrative-driven object art and performance-based formats. As a studio assistant at Berlin Glasworks, Cosentino continues to explore the alchemy of transparency—where heat, breath, and fragility become vessels of poetic resistance.

Their recent works combine glass sculpture, pontifical incense, mineral pigments, and immersive media, creating sensorial architectures that invite reflection on collective and personal memory. Gesturing with investigative aesthetics, they offer viewers ephemeral encounters with fragility, transformation, and ritual.

Cosentino has taught at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK), the Academy for Fashion and Design (AMD), and Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design. Since 2024, they lecture at the Technical University of Munich, focusing on experimental, cross-disciplinary practices in art and architecture. Through participatory installations and poetic methodologies, their practice unfolds as a site of research, resistance, and shared perception.

April 2025 - ongoing
Research and Teaching Associate
Chair for Art in Architecture
TUM Technical University
Munich


October 2024 - ongoing
Studio Assistant
Berlin Glassworks
Berlin


November  2023 - ongoing
Lecturer - Department of Fashion Design
UdK University of the Arts
Berlin


October 2021 - October 2024
Assistant Professor and Artistic Associate
Chair for Textile and Fashion Design
Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule
Halle (Saale)


September 2023
Lecturer - Department of Design
AMD Academy for Fashion and Design
Berlin


June 2020 - December 2024
Actor
Deutsche Oper
Berlin


October 2019 - March 2020
Tutor
Porcelain and Gypsum Workshop
UdK University Of The Arts
Berlin


July 2017 - August 2018
Junior Designer
Viktor & Rolf Maison
Amsterdam


January 2015 - July 2015
Studio Assisting Trainee
Metal, Polyester and Textile Departments
Atelier Van Lieshout
Rotterdam

February 2020 - march 2021
PhD preparatory Research
Postcolonial Queer Theories 
Elsa Neumann Grant
EU

October 2018 - October 2019 
Master of Arts in Fashion Design
UDK University Of The Arts
Berlin

September 2015 - June 2017
Fashion Design Studies 
KASK - Royal Academy of Fine Arts
Antwerp

2012 - 2013
Architectural Design Studies
ENSA - Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’architecture Paris-Est   
Paris

October 2010 - July 2014
BA in Architectural Design 
TUM Technical University
Munich

Il mostro di Düsseldorf
March  2022
Oberbilker Allee 57
Düsseldorf




Planet Hunger
August - September 2021
McLaughlin Gallery
Berlin