Artists in Residence

2021 | Visual Arts

Yang Jian | 2021 Studio Residency

Nationality: China Residency location: TBD Partner organization: TBD Yang Jian currently lives and works in Nanjing, China. He has worked primarily in video and installation. He received a BA (2004) and MA (2007) from the Art College of Xiamen University and was a residency artist at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten in Netherlands from 2009 …

Country of residency: Switzerland

2021 | Theatre, Dance

Wang Mengfan | 2021 Studio Residency

Nationality: China Residency location: Zurich Partner organization: TBD Born in 1990, Wang Mengfan works as an independent theater director and choreographer in Beijing. She studied History of Art and Dance Studies in China and Germany. Since 2015, Wang has been working with different groups of people in her dance theater projects, including old ladies, children …

Country of residency: Switzerland

2021 | Visual Arts

Wang Haiyang | 2021 Studio Residency

Nationality: China Residency location: TBD Partner organization: TBD Wang Haiyang, born in 1984 in Shandong, currently lives and works in Beijing, China. Graduated from the printmaking department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Wang employs a multimedia approach to expand the rhetorical scope of art. His work reflects on contemporary existential topics while investigating, …

Country of residency: Switzerland

2021 | Visual Arts

Tong Wenmin | 2021 Studio Residency

Nationality: China Residency location: TBD Partner organization: TBD Tong Wenmin’s artworks often focus on where individual perception intersects with the external environment, stimulating visual poetry, and inspiring action through behaviors that at first seem counter-intuitive. Through often simplified or regulated movements, her works hint at the body’s allegorical character and action within a semantically rich …

Country of residency: Switzerland

2021 | Music

Mao Zhu & Li Kun | 2021 Studio Residency

Nationality: China Residency location: TBD Partner organization: TBD Mao Zhu and Li Kun are a musician and artist couple. The two artists started steady collaboration in cross-media performance arts since 2012. They have created several cross-media performance works, like “Triple worlds” (2012), “Cross-media Creation” (2013), “Folk Mimic” (2017), “Yōkai Suite II” (2019). With a keen …

Country of residency: Switzerland

2021 | Visual Arts

Till Langschied | 2021 Studio Residency

Nationality: Switzerland Residency location: TBD Partner organization: TBD Till Langschied is a visual artist who lives in Basel, Switzerland, and works in a variety of media. He studied at the AMD Düsseldorf and under Chus Martinez at the Institut Kunst HGK in Basel where he graduated with a degree in Fine Arts. His artistic research …

Country of residency: Mainland China

2021 | Music

Samuel Reinhard | 2021 Studio Residency

Nationality: Switzerland Residency location: Hong Kong Partner organization: TBD Samuel Reinhard is a Swiss composer, musician and artist. Born in 1980 in Bern, Switzerland, he earned his MA in Contemporary Arts Practice (Music & Media Arts) from Bern University of the Arts in 2015. He now lives and works between Bern, New York and Los …

Country of residency: Hong Kong, China

2021 | Visual Arts

Ramon Feller | 2021 Studio Residency

Nationality: Switzerland Residency location: Shanghai Partner organization: TBD Born 1988, lives and works in Zurich. Feller deals with systems, patterns and temporal processes. His interest lies in the tension between observation and contemplation of processes, habits and rhythms. The question of control is immanent in his work. For the implementation of his contents, he works …

Country of residency: Mainland China

2021 | Design and Architecture

Quang Vinh Nguyen | 2021 Research Trip

Nationality: Switzerland Trip location: Shanghai Partner organization: TBD Quang Vinh Nguyen, born in 1995, is a product designer from Lausanne, Switzerland. After graduating with honors from ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne with a bachelor’s degree, he has been granted a residency program in Hong Kong. He will then attend the TaDA (Textile & Design Alliance) …

Country of residency: Mainland China

Visual Arts

Olivia Schenker | 2021 Research Trip

Nationality: Switzerland Trip location: Shanghai Partner organization: TBD Olivia Schenker, born in 1993, is a Swiss photographer, video maker and graphic designer whose work mainly explores intimacy, sexual diversity and gender expression. After graduate in 2018 at ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne, she co-founded Oil Productions alongside Nora Smith, Meli Boss, Mahalia Giotto, Julie Folly …

Country of residency: Mainland China