Artists-in-Residence

Visual Arts

Tapan Moharana

self-portrait, Tapan Moharana A multidisciplinary artist from Odisha, Tapan Moharana lives and works in New Delhi, India. He has received his MFA in Sculpture from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. His artistic work is based on serene landscapes and busy city life, his practice is concerned with the concepts of land, displacement, and environmental politics. Tapan’s …

Country of residency: Switzerland

Visual Arts

Mara Züst

Mara Züst (b. 1976, Zurich) is an artist, cultural pedagogue (author and outreach project developer), and researcher residing in Zurich. She holds a diploma in Visual Communication from Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) (2005), an MA History of Art/History of Modern Area from the University of Zurich (2014) and completed the CAS Arts and …

Country of residency: Nepal

February 2023 | Visual Arts

Martina Huber

Photo credit: Gabor Jéss Martina Huber is the founder and curator of the platform WE ARE AIA I Awareness in Art, which she founded in 2020 at the Löwenbräu in Zurich, Switzerland. Martina initiates and curates transdisciplinary collaborations between artists and experts from the field to sharpen awareness of complex social questions and make issues accessible on an …

Country of residency: India

8-19 February 2023 | Interdisciplinary

Johannes Hedinger

Photo credit: Lisa Hörterer  Johannes M. Hedinger is a curator, artist, educator, author, and researcher. He studied art history and cultural studies in Zurich and Berlin and fine arts in Zurich and Los Angeles. Hedinger is the director of the Institute for Land and Environmental Art (ILEA), the outdoor Biennale Art Safiental, and the summer school Alps Art Academy. He is …

Country of residency: India

23 Jan - 31 Mar 2023 | Music

Gil Schneider

Photo credit: Ellie Lizbeth Brown Gil Schneider is a Swiss composer and producer based in Berlin. Their works are a tightly woven, non-linear yet soaring experiences of music’s potential to create new dance forms. Overlapping percussions, atmospheric sounds, dipping in and out of genres and timelines, GIL surprises the audience with their approach to movement. At times diverging far …

Country of residency: Sri Lanka

7 Jan - 7 Feb 2023 | Visual Arts

Maya Minder

Photo credit Alexandra Carusi Maya Minder is an ‘Eatartist’ working at the intersection of culinary production and critical thinking about global practices and entanglement of different food cultures. Her research trip to India is devoted to histories through food by its very materialistic and pragmatic approach to the daily practice of preparing, cooking, eating and …

Country of residency: India

4 Jan - 31 Mar 2023 | Visual Arts

Aqui Thami

Photo courtesy the artist. Aqui Thami is an Indigenous artist based in Mumbai. She uses social exchanges and develops safe spaces to position art as a medium of healing in community. She is a founding member of Dharavi Art Room, Bombay Underground, and Sister Library. Read more about her studio residency here.

Country of residency: Switzerland

23 Dec 2022 - 14 Jan 2023 | Literature

Alexandra Bachzetsis

Photo credit: Peggy Kaplan Alexandra Bachzetsis is a choreographer and visual artist, based in Zurich (CH). Her practice unfolds at the intersection of dance, performance, the visual arts and theater, generating a conflation of the spaces in which the body, as an artistic and critical apparatus, can manifest. This fundamentally interdisciplinary approach is reflected in …

Country of residency: India

23 Dec 2022 - 21 Jan 2023 | Visual Arts

Damian Christinger

Photo credit: Rita Zurbrugg Damian Christinger (*1975, Zurich) studied Global Art History and Intercultural Studies. He now works as an independent curator, writer and lectures at different institutions on transcultural theory and practice, the Anthropocene and indigenous knowledge. His main focus is on the construction of “the Other” in intercultural relations, the nature/human dichotomy in …

Country of residency: India

17 Dec 2022 - 10 Jan 2023 | Interdisciplinary

Robin Meier Wiratunga

Artist and composer, Robin Meier Wiratunga tries to understand the emergence of thoughts and ideas, be it for people, animals, flocks, algorithms or rivers. With a bag of tricks from sound, science and sorcery he composes thinking tools he never quite manages to master. His investigations have been conducted internationally, with partners including Palais de Tokyo, Centre …

Country of residency: India