Kyla Kegler

Kyla Kegler is a choreographer, visual artist and curator who makes paintings, videos and performances that explore existential humor, dynamics of care, community and pleasure. She is the founder and director of performance / movement space Agatha Falls.

Kegler’s practice draws from her past work with Bread and Puppet Theater (Vermont) and as co-founder of the underground theater, “Zuhause” (Berlin). She received an MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship from the Art University of Berlin and an MFA in Studio Art from the University at Buffalo. Her past projects include: Feel Me, a multi-modal project exploring the mindfulness industry exhibited at Box gallery, Canisius College and Big Orbit; The House on Fire Show, a teen web-drama about the climate crisis screened at Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art; Mountains: a puppet soap opera performed at Artpark, Torn Space Theater, and Undercurrent Gallery (Brooklyn) and The Frontier, a performance about cults and community (2023); R.d.f.t.c. (Relationships don’t finish, they change): an installation including video and sculpture exhibited at the Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY (2024).

Contact: kylakegler@gmail.com

OFF-CAMPUS
DECEMBER 12, 2025
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Lipsey Auditorium
1285 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, New York 14222
Auditorium opens at 6:30 pm, film screening at 7:00 pm
The event is free and open to the public.

Join the Communities of Care and the Buffalo AKG for the premiere of Kyla Kegler's recent film project, The Accumulation of Meaning Over Time. The work is funded by grants from the UB Communities of Care and NYSCA. The film screening (approximately 22-minutes) will be followed by a brief discussion of the work between Kegler and Assistant Curator, Special Projects Zack Boehler. 

Kegler's film is a lyrical exploration of how understanding of self deepens with age, and how collective meaning gathers across generations, bodies, and images. It is an ode to the treasure hunt of growing older—to the gradual realization that what moved us as children was not fleeting naïveté, but the first glimmer of lifelong motifs that orient how we move through the world. Drawing from personal narration, Jungian theory, and the history of experimental media art in Buffalo, NY, Kegler's film weaves these threads into a meditation on memory, inheritance, and becoming.

Learn more about the work, The Accumulation of Meaning Over Time.

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Bio: Kyla Kegler explores themes of fantasy, relationship, pleasure, and purpose through painting, sculpture, performance, and film. Her films and performances often choreograph groups engaged in tasks that blend emotional and physical labor.

Kegler’s practice is informed by her work with Bread and Puppet Theater (Vermont) and her role as co-founder of the underground theater Zuhause (Berlin). She holds an MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship from the Art University of Berlin and an MFA in Studio Art from the University at Buffalo.

Her past projects include Feel Me, a multi-modal investigation of the mindfulness industry exhibited at Box Gallery, Canisius College, and Big Orbit; The House on Fire Show, a teen web-drama about the climate crisis screened at the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art; Mountains, a puppet soap opera performed at Artpark, Torn Space Theater, and Undercurrent Gallery (Brooklyn); The Frontier, a performance about cults and community; and R.d.f.t.c. (Relationships don’t finish, they change), an installation of video and sculpture exhibited at the Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, NY (2024).

Her project, The Accumulation of Meaning Over Time (All Parts Sold Separately), is funded by the UB Humanities Communities of Care Grant, includes a film, ceramic objects, and paintings. Kegler’s project explores early life influences—such as Mattel toy commercials—on world-building as utopian fantasy and a strategy for control amid unmanageable chaos.