Artists in Residence

2022 | Visual Arts

Nathalie Stirnimann and Stefan Stojanovic | 2022 Residency

Nationality: Switzerland/Serbia Residency location: TBD Partner organization: TBD Nathalie Stirnimann (Born in 1990, Fribourg, Switzerland) and Stefan Stojanovic (Born in 1993, Vranje, Serbia) have been working as a duo since 2015 and are based in Zurich. Stirnimann-Stojanovic’s concepts manifest and materialise through situations, performances, words, and objects. Social issues and structural questions of the art …

Country of residency: Mainland China

2022 | Innovation & Society

Jana Vanecek | 2022 Residency

Nationality: Switzerland Residency location: TBD Partner organization: TBD Interdisciplinary artist and researcher. Jana Vanecek was born in the former Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and lives currently in Switzerland. She holds degrees in fine arts, critical theory and transdisciplinarity in the arts and works as a research associate at the Zurich University of Arts. Her projects operate …

Country of residency: Mainland China

2022 | Music

Nikola H. Mounoud (• • •) | 2022 Residency

Nationality: Switzerland Residency location: TBD Partner organization: TBD • • • is the moniker of Nikola H. Mounoud. Composer, performer, improviser, musician, noisician, sound artist, sound actionist… All are fine words and yet they lack something to really fathom the extent of his sound works. For more than a decade he dedicated his work to …

Country of residency: Mainland China

2022 | Music

Fortunat Frölich | 2022 Residency

Nationality: Switzerland Residency location: TBD Partner organization: TBD Composer. Studied at the conservatories of Zurich (Switzerland), Napels (Italy) and the Academy of Music in Leipzig (GDR). The music of Fortunat Frölich is committed to neither a particular school nor style. Using a broad palette of musical and stylistic means, reflecting his personal musical development, his …

Country of residency: Mainland China

April-June 2022 | Visual Arts

Mountain River Jump! | 2022 Residency

Nationality: China Residency location: Zurich Partner organization: Gleis 70, Theater Neumarkt Mountain River Jump! is an artist duo founded in 2016 by twin sisters Huang Shan and Huang He, who were born in 1985. The duo has a variety of creative formats in art, often applying “divination consulting” as a performance to examine the potential …

Country of residency: Switzerland

2022 | Dance

Yu Erge | 2022 Residency

Nationality: China Residency location: TBD Partner organization: TBD Born in Harbin, Heilongjiang, now lives in Chengdu. Choreographer, dancer, artist of Cite des Art Paris and A4 International Resident Art Center, international first-class actor, one of the first national top talents of the Ministry of Culture of China. She studied at the Sichuan Dance School and …

Country of residency: Switzerland

2022 | Theatre

Shen Bolun | 2022 Residency

Nationality: China Residency location: TBD Partner organization: TBD Born in 1989 in China, Bolun studied business and economics in Canada for a short period of time and graduated from Communication University of China in 2012. After having worked in journalism and marketing industry, he started focusing on independent art projects since 2013, mainly film/video, performance, …

Country of residency: Switzerland

2022 | Theatre

Xiao Jing | 2022 Residency

Nationality: China Residency location: Zurich Partner organization: TBD Born in 1988, Xiao Jing works as a playwright, director and performer in Beijing. She majored in Literature and Education at Beijing Normal University, and is a member of the New Youth Group. Her plays have been staged and published in Denmark, and the works she directed …

Country of residency: Switzerland

2022 | Visual Arts

Ni Hao | 2022 Residency

Nationality: China Residency location: TBD Partner organization: TBD Ni Hao (b. 1989, Hsinchu City) received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011 and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2014. Originally trained as a sculptor, Ni’s work often combines sculptures, installations, videos and sound performances that …

Country of residency: Switzerland

2022 | Theatre

Li Shasha | 2022 Research Trip

Nationality: China Residency location: TBD Partner organization: TBD Puppeteer, Director, Contemporary Puppetry Artist. Li Shasha was born in Hebei in 1987. Graduated from Shanghai Theatre Academy in 2011. From 2011 to January 2016, she worked in Shanghai Puppet Troupe as the leading actor. In 2008 and 2012, she won the Golden Lion Award and the …

Country of residency: Switzerland