LAYTON LACHMAN is an artist living in Berlin. Layton creates performances rooted in somatics, channeling experiential physical practices into immersive, sensory complex worlds. Their practice is often a contemplation on the interplay between individuality and the materiality of our interconnectedness. Utilizing an ever diversifying range of artistic mediums and contexts, Layton’s collaged choreographies include film, text, voice & sound, objects and intense physicalities, that once combined in a work are often distinguished by their surrealist, psychedelic, dreamlike qualities. Layton’s practice is deeply collaborative, with long and cherished artistic relationships that have evolved over time. They are deeply influenced by queer and postcolonial theorists, ecofeminism, psychoanalysis, sci-fi world building, and practices of bodily and spiritual catharsis through dance and ritual. Their work has been exhibited and performed primarily in Europe and the USA. Most recently they premiered a work in 2025 titled In the Shadow of Forward Motion, Commissioned by the London Goethe Institute, at Haus der Kunst in Munich. In addition to their performative practice, Layton is an independent curator, as well as teaching in Berlin and as a guest lecturer at several universities in the USA. Before moving to Berlin, Layton worked and lived in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.