Artists in Residence

2023 | Music

Anliker Basil | 2020 Residency

Nationality: Switzerland Residency location: TBD Partner organization: TBD Basil has been working as a musician for more than twenty years. He started out as a rapper and over the course of the years, has become a musician and lyricist without any musical borders. He has played with all types of musicians from different countries and …

Country of residency: Switzerland

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

Gilles Jacot | 2020 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 Trip

Nationality: China Trip 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 support a one-month …

Country of residency: Switzerland

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

Kwok Ying | 2020 Research Trip

Nationality: Hong Kong, China Trip 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

Visual Arts

Augustin Rebetez | 2020 Research Trip

Nationality: Switzerland Trip Location: Guangzhou After his previous stay in Southern China for an exhibition in Shenzhen, Augustin Rebetez is conducting a one-month research trip 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 …

Country of residency: Mainland China

Literature, Visual Arts

Bettina Spoerri & Miklós Klaus Rózsa | 2020 Research Trip

Nationality: Switzerland (and Hungary) Trip 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 – …

Country of residency: Mainland China

May to July 2020, Home Not Alone Residency and Jan. 10-Mar. 9, 2022 in China | Visual Arts

Alan Bogana | 2020 Residency

Nationality: Switzerland Residency location: (Home Residency) Shanghai; Hong Kong Partner organization: Chronus Art Center; 1a Space 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 …

Country of residency: Mainland China

Dec.8, 2020-Feb.28, 2021 | Visual Arts

Li Tingwei | 2020 Residency

Nationality: China Residency location: Basel Partner organization: Atelier Mondial 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

April/May 2020 | Visual Arts

Salvatore Vitale | 2020 Research Trip

Nationality: Switzerland Trip 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 …

Country of residency: Mainland China

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

Li Shuang | 2020 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