Artists in Residence

Gilles Jacot | 2020 Studio Residency

Nationality: Switzerland Residency location: TBD Partner organization: TBD Gilles Jacot, born in 1990, lives and works in Zurich. He works in the field of visual art via various media such as oil painting, sculpture and installation. His apprenticeship as an architectural model builder taught him how to take distance from, observe and simultaneously focus on details. …

Country of residency: Mainland China

Alan Bogana | 2020 Studio Residency

Nationality: Switzerland Residency location: TBD Partner organization: TBD Alan Bogana, born in 1979, currently lives and works in Geneva. Bogana’s art practice involves sculpture, time-based media and holography, and his works are often presented in the form of installations. His artistic research reflects on the mediating role that imaging technologies and popular science play in our …

Country of residency: Mainland China

Peter Aerschmann | 2020 Studio Residency

Nationality: Switzerland Residency location: TBD Partner organization: TBD Peter Aerschmann, born 1969 in Fribourg, lives and works in Bern. He studied computer science at the University in Basel and art at the University of the Arts, Berne (1994-1999). He is the initiator and co-founder of the PROGR foundation in Bern and Residency.ch Peter Aerschmann works …

Country of residency: Mainland China

Lucie Tuma | 2020 Studio Residency

Nationality: Switzerland Residency location: Shanghai Partner organization: TBD Lucie Tuma is an artist, choreographer, and dancer who lives and works in Zurich. She studied dance and theater in Prague, Montpellier, and Giessen, and then founded the duo Chuck Morris in 2008. Her productions encompass dance performances, seminars, books, and time-based sculptures. Her works have been presented at festivals and …

Country of residency: Mainland China

Salvatore Vitale | 2020 Research Residency

Nationality: Switzerland Residency location: Shanghai Partner organization: TBD Salvatore Vitale, born in 1986 in Italy, is a Swiss-based visual artist and editor. He studied Fine Arts at the Zurich University of Arts (ZHdK), and is a professor at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU). Vitale received the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia’s grant …

Country of residency: Mainland China

April-May, 2020

Bettina Spoerri & Miklós Klaus Rózsa | 2020 Research Residency

Nationality: Switzerland (and Hungary) Residency location: Shanghai Partner organization: TBD The writer and publicist Bettina Spoerri, and the photographer and video producer Miklós Klaus Rózsa will come for one month to Shanghai in 2020 to make a research for their multimedia project «Anna in Shanghai». This project is on the first level a novel – written …

Country of residency: Mainland China

Vincent Ruiz | 2020 Research Residency

Nationality: Switzerland Residency location: TBD Partner organization: TBD Vincent Ruiz, born in 1990, is a Swiss musician and composer. Ruiz is known as a double bass player who has been active in the field of jazz, free improvisation, experimental music, and is a regular member of the Insub Meta Orchestra. He studied upright bass in 2015 …

Country of residency: Mainland China

Li Shuang | 2020 Studio Residency

Nationality: China Residency location: Geneva Partner organization: EoFA Li Shuang is an artist based in Yiwu, China. Graduated with an MA in media studies from New York University in 2014, she is most interested in the power of “medium as massage”. Li Shuang has held solo exhibition at Open Forum, Berlin (2019), SLEEPCENTER, New York …

Country of residency: Switzerland

Cheng Xinhao | 2020 Studio Residency

Nationality: China Residency location: Zurich Partner organization: Gleis 70 Cheng Xinhao was born in Yunnan Province in 1985, where he currently lives and works. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Peking University in 2013. Focusing on his hometown, Xinhao’s works are usually based on long-term field study. With videos, installations, photographs and the presence …

Country of residency: Switzerland

Li Tingwei | 2020 Studio Residency

Nationality: China Residency location: Zurich Partner organization: Rote Fabrik Li Tingwei was born in 1989 in Yantai, China and now based in Shanghai and Berlin. She graduated from Universität der Künste Berlin and had previously studied at Hunter College MFA program and Tongji University. She holds the title of Meisterschuelerin of the Berlin University of …

Country of residency: Switzerland