Artists-in-Residence

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

Dec 2022-Feb 2023 | Visual Arts

Florine Leoni and Jannik Giger

Florine Leoni is a Swiss artist engaged in interdisciplinary, long-term and collaborative projects at the intersection of art, film, photography and performance. Leoni’s artistic practice focuses on exploring and exposing the hidden structures and influences of social and psychological constructs, which are linked to spatial entities and are interwoven with the web of human existence. …

Country of residency: Switzerland, Sri Lanka

9 Dec 2022-17 Jan 2023 | Visual Arts

Stefanie Knobel

Photo credit: Esther Nora Mathis Stefanie Knobel grew up in Switzerland and first studied dance, language and choreography in Bern, Giessen and Paris before working in Fine Arts. Her work pursues a polyphonic breathing that catches up with the technogenic substances in our alienated bodies and brings forth future imaginaries that have yet to be …

Country of residency: India, Bangladesh

19 November -20 December 2022 | Music

Leonardo Nevari

Photo courtesy the artist Leonardo Nevari is a pianist and composer. He had been studying piano and composition at I. M. L. Boccherini in Lucca under the guide of M° R. Peruzzi and M° P. Rigacci, graduating ”summa cum laude’’ in 2015. He then attended the Master’s degree in music performance at Conservatorio della Svizzera …

Country of residency: Nepal

14 November to 3 December 2022 | Visual Arts

Indranjan Banerjee

Indranjan Banerjee (he/they) is a curator, writer and cultural producer; and is a Curator and Program Manager at Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi. He often plays the role of an interlocutor with artists and creative practitioners and thinks with creative practices that are at the intersection of visual, material and performance cultures. His engagements …

Country of residency: Switzerland

9 - 19 November 2022

Shakyla Hussain

Photo credit: FOCUS Association Shakyla Hussain (born 1985) is founder and director of FOCUS association since 2009. She has curated international artistic projects with Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Iran. Recently, she has opened the art center Mosaic Room which strengthens encounters in the field of art, foodlab and research. She has previously worked in cultural institutions …

Country of residency: India

3 November 2022 - 30 January 2023

Giulia Essyad

Photo courtesy the artist Giulia Essyad is an artist, poet, and performer. Her practice is characterized by performativity and affect. Her work usually includes photography, video, language, and performances. Essyad’s practice concerns the representation of bodies, online and IRL, and engages with the varied forms of alienation that accompany the consumption and production of body …

25 October - 29 November 2022 | Literature

Imaad Majeed

Imaad Majeed is a multidisciplinary artist based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. They are one part of the artist collective The Packet and VJ/DJ of Packet Radio (SUPR FM). They are Director and Curator of the trilingual performance platform KACHA KACHA. They are Project Coordinator and Co-Curator of Thattu Pattu, a platform for music from the …

Country of residency: Switzerland