Petra Vogt (artist)

Petra Vogt is a German actress, visual artist, performance artist, poet and one-time partner of poet and publisher Ira Cohen.

Beginning in 1962, Vogt performed with the experimental Living Theatre in Europe. During the organizations’ period in New York in the late 1960s, she acted in multiple productions directed by Julian Beck and Judith Malina including Frankenstein (1968), Paradise Now (1968), Mysteries and Other Pieces (1968) and Bertold Brecht’s Antigone (1968–1969).^[1]

After meeting Ira Cohen, they travelled to Kathmandu, Nepal in 1970 and remained there for many years as member of a thriving community of expatriate European and American artists and writers.^[2] With Cohen she worked on publications for the small press Bardo Matrix.^[3] Vogt collaborated extensively with Cohen, posing for many of his well-known photographs.^{[citation needed]}

In the late 1970s, Vogt moved to India and is believed to be living as a poet in Europe today.^{[citation needed]}