Kunstschaffende

My visual language explores elements of relocation, spatial transition and the emotional state within it. I create three-dimensional pieces and large scale drawings on paper. Mediums used are primarily pencil and graphite powder. The production begins by translating pictures from a personal photographic archive. They are often modified to serve a purpose, their composition changes, its context alters.

Carla Blanca Corminboeuf’s practice explores memory, identity, and cultural transmission through photography, moving image, sound, and installation. Rooted in her experience of Andean culture and traditional Peruvian dance, she investigates how histories and identities are embodied, performed, and transformed across generations.

I am a performance and visual artist based in Zurich. Working across performance, moving image and installation, I examine the relationship between the body, memory and political conditions. My practice engages with collective trauma, repetition and temporality, approaching the body as an archive shaped by historical and social forces. Through choreographic scores and performative situations, I investigate how physical action can reveal the structures that organise perception, identity and everyday life.

Dominique Bartels (CH, 1999) works with photography, video, archives and textiles. Her work explores relationships within the living world, often drawing on the gestures of textile-making and the transformation of natural fibers to reflect on the shifting boundaries between nature and culture. She holds a BA in Photography from ECAL (2023) and lives and works in Zurich.

Eine räumliche Geste machen, einen Raum betreten, Gestalt hin und her wandeln lassen, innehalten, verweilen. Räume andeuten, sie entstehen, beinahe fast wirklich werden lassen, in sie hinein- und wieder hinausgehen und sie ineinander verweben. Dieses Zusammenspiel wird zu einem Material, einem Rhythmus. Dieser Rhythmus ist das, womit Elia Menang Setiadi arbeitet.

Julien Fournival’s practice unfolds through writing, installation, and sculpture. At the intersection of the domestic and the symbolic, he examines our relationship to familiar spaces, memory, and personal and familial mythologies.

In meiner künstlerischen Praxis konzentriere ich mich auf Tradition und Displacement. Sie umfasst Malerei, Keramik und Skulpturen. Meine Arbeit ist eine Suche nach Zugehörigkeit, verwurzelt in meiner Erfahrung als Tochter portugiesischer Einwanderer in der Schweiz. Das Aufwachsen zwischen zwei Kulturen hat meine Wahrnehmung von Identität und Heimat stark geprägt.

Kyryl Korin’s practice spans across painting, sculpture, and installation, moving between plane and spatial forms. Rooted in traditional painting and drawing, today his work operates between image, object, and space.

Mahalia taje’s artistic practice is deeply rooted in their personal experience as a non binary transmasculine artist. They use art as a space for documentation, resistance and reconstruction, where the intimate becomes political. Every transformation of the body carries a social and historical charge, and their work explores these tensions through photography, performance, archive and visual experimentation.

Marc Hansjörg Lieberherr is a conceptual artist based in St. Gallen. Working across a diverse range of media including printmaking, photography, sculpture, and spatial design, Lieberherr is best known for combining conceptual art with scenographic and spatial practices. His interdisciplinary approach investigates social, political, individual, and philosophical questions through immersive, site-responsive concepts that extend across physical and perceptual space.

The object of my research is the factories of Rustavi, polluted air and resulting diseases. My interest in this topic is personal, I grew up in Rustavi, in a family whose five members worked in Rustavi's nitrogen or metallurgical plants for decades.

In ihrem künstlerischen Schaffensprozess erforscht Naomé Nazire Tahmaz Zusammenhänge zwischen Material, Symbolik und Kommunikation. Sie setzt sich dabei mit Fragen wie der Bedeutung des Handwerks als Bewältigungsstrategie auseinander. Dies beinhaltet die Untersuchung persönlicher, heiliger Objekte in privaten Räumen. Mit den Medien Fotografie, Film, Textil und seit kurzem auch Metall und Wachs zeichnen sich ihre Arbeiten durch einen atmosphärischen Charakter mit szenografischen Einflüssen aus.

Nora Aliena Friedlin arbeitet multidisziplinär, textbasiert und erschafft begeh- und erfahrbare (Raum)Installationen. Ausgehend von Körpern, Transformationsprozessen, Fluidität und Symbiosen werden unterschiedliche Sinne poetisch angesprochen: berühren, zuhören, riechen, zuschauen, verschmelzen. Der Körper wird zum Akt des Wiederstandes, die Grenzen des Individuums verfliessen.

My practice explores how the body forms relationships within familiar objects and spaces. By subtly altering everyday furniture such as chairs and tables, I disrupt habitual ways of using them and reveal the moments in which the body searches for new forms of balance and perception. Through these subtle displacements, I invite viewers to reconsider the relationships they take for granted and to imagine new possibilities of connection with objects, spaces, and others.

Anja Ripoll et Tristan Cubero, à travers leurs pratiques respectives, plongent dans la matière pour en révéler la mémoire cachée, le sens enfoui. Anja sculpte la terre, la modelant en entités hybrides, entre vestiges de civilisations antiques et visions post-apocalyptiques. Ses œuvres interrogent l’anthropocène, une époque où l’Homme, tout en contrôlant la nature, se trouve hanté par sa propre fragilité.

Romain Carré's work explores the idea of objectivity, giving poetic form to the human pursuit of a perception outside itself. Coming from a background at the crossroads of the arts and sciences, his research engages with the foundations of knowledge, revealing the fragility of any discourse at the edge of the observable world.