Artists in Residence

Jan.3-Feb.16, Mar.7-Apr.13, 2020 | Visual Arts

Gilles Jacot | 2020 Studio Residency

Nationality: Switzerland Residency location: Shanghai Partner organization: Studio Gallery 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 …

Country of residency: Mainland China

Jan.17-Feb.16, 2020 | Visual Arts

Shen Chen | 2020 Research Residency

Nationality: China Residency location: Zurich, Geneva, Wintherthur, etc. Since its inception in 2014, the Power Station of Art’s Emerging Curators Project (ECP) is committed to empowering China’s young curatorial and art forces with a fertile land of growth. Marking the beginning of this new collaboration, Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Swiss Arts Council will sponsor a one-month …

Country of residency: Switzerland

Jan.16 to Feb.6, 2020 | Visual Arts

Kwok Ying | 2020 Research Residency

Nationality: Hong Kong, China Residency location: Wintherthur Kwok Ying has been invited by Pro Helvetia Shanghai to participate in the 2020 edition of the Plat(t)form project conceived by the Fotomuseum Winterthur as an international expert. She will review the portfolios of emerging artists, visit local art institutions, and engage in networking with the Swiss art …

Country of residency: Switzerland

October, 2020 | Visual Arts

Augustin Rebetez | 2020 Research Residency

Nationality: Switzerland Residency location: Guangzhou After his previous stay in Southern China for an exhibition in Shenzhen, Augustin Rebetez is conducting a one-month residency in Guangzhou. He has the idea of ​​realizing during this period an unprecedented corpus of photographs and videos, while using local resources and collaborating with the Cantonese artistic network. Augustin Rebetez, …

Country of residency: Mainland China

August, 2020 | Literature, Visual Arts

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

Mid May-Mid July 2020 | Visual Arts

Alan Bogana | 2020 Studio Residency

Nationality: Switzerland Residency location: Shanghai Partner organization: Chronus Art Center 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 …

Country of residency: Mainland China

2020 | Visual Arts

Li Tingwei | 2020 Studio Residency

Due to travel restrictions imposed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Li’s residency will not be going ahead at this time. 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 …

Country of residency: Switzerland

April/May 2020 | Visual Arts

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

Apr.20-May 20, 2020 | Music

Vincent Ruiz | 2020 Research Residency

Nationality: Switzerland Residency location: Shanghai, Inner Mongolia 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 …

Country of residency: Mainland China

Oct.1-Dec.23, 2020 | Visual Arts

Li Shuang | 2020 Studio Residency

Nationality: China Residency location: Geneva Partner organization: Embassy of Foreign Artists 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), …

Country of residency: Switzerland