Shifting Places

Join us for a shared meal and the dance performance Father Politics by Company MEK/Muhammed Kaltuk at Alte Reithalle, Aarau.

Muhammed Kaltuk is the shooting-star of contemporary urban dance, his style the authentic dance language of a young, angry generation. In his award-winning dance piece "Father Politics", his company MEK unmasks the emotionalization of politics through the opinion-making and polarization of political advertising campaigns.

Learn more about the performance: https://www.buehne-aarau.ch/pr...

E-Meeting with Sarah Girard, director of the photography festival 'Bieler Fototage'. She gives insight into the organisation of a big festival and answers your questions about the Swiss photo scene.

For over twenty years Sarah Girard has been working as a photographer, art educator and consultant. She is the director of one of the most important festivals of emerging photography in Switzerland. It takes place every year in May.

Learn more about Bieler Fototage: https://bielerfototage.ch

Join us for a a shared meal and visit at the MBAL in Le Locle, Canton Neuchâtel.

Since its reopening in 2014 the MBAL has increasingly established itself as a reference institution in Switzerland. Its programming, that offers three temporary exhibitions per year, succeeds in combining "an aura of excellence with a spirit of discovery" and therefore attracting a wide audience.

Learn more about the MBAL: https://www.mbal.ch

E-meeting with Keabetswe Boccomino, Visual Art Curator & Director at AFRINOVA. She will talk about her practice as a curator in Switzerland and will answer your questions about the Swiss visual art scene.

Since its founding in April 2020, AFRINOVA is a creative community platform aimed at showcasing a new and authentic experience of art & design from Africa and the diaspora. It represents emerging artists who have exhibited on various international platforms, i.e., Swiss ArtExpo. Her newest exhibition, "Take Back Your Keys", is open from 26.11.22 to 01.01.23 in the frame of Regionale 23, in Projektraum M54 in Basel.

Together we enjoy the contemporary dance performance Chænelings by and with Kiran Kumãe, Mamela Nyamza and Lucie Tuma.

Occultism, Dance, Magic. In Chænelings Lucie, Kiran and Mamela deal with occult and mediumistic practices. The work combines spiritual with technical media - and thus undermines the boundaries between a cosmology that underlies science and the worlds beyond modernity.

Under the title We are so many here, the artists of the association board of the Basler Kunstverein exceptionally curate this year’s Regionale at Kunsthalle Basel. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Kunsthalle Basel, more than 50 artists are brought together in a polyphonic, colorful, and resonant presentation. Come along to enjoy the exhibition and exchange with peers.

Join us for a shared meal and the performance The Goldberg Variations by Platform-K, Michiel Vandevelde and Philippe Thuriot (Belgium)

When baroque meets post-modernism, supposedly incompatible worlds are on a collision course. The performance is part of the international dance festival at Dampfzentrale, Bern.

E-meet Dimitri Witzig, Lawyer at Berner Rechtsberatungsstelle für Menschen in Not, and ask him all your questions during the 90 minutes session.

Dimitri Witzig has studied law at Zürich University and now specialises in Asylum and Social Welfare Law. Amongst other things he will talk about the Status S in Switzerland.

THE GRANT
➜ Submission Deadline: 14.2.2023
➜ Residency duration: 14.4.-14.7.2023
➜ Send your letter of motivation and CV in English to anastasia.alexandrova@artlink.ch
➜ The grant covers per diems and travel expenses inside of Switzerland. Accommodation is included.

Please note that basic knowledge of at least one of the following languages is manadatory for all applicants: English, German or French.

VILLA STRÄULI
Established in 1999, Villa Sträuli is a non-profit contemporary art center in the city of Winterthur, Canton Zurich, supporting artistic practice and encouraging interdisciplinary approaches as well as creating bridges between a local and international public and long lasting cooperations.

Villa Sträuli’s residency program has a cross-disciplinary focus. It welcomes artists from all disciplines (music, visual arts, performance, literature, new media, film, photography) but also curators and art critics.

As a space for artistic creation, production, and dissemination of contemporary art, Villa Sträuli facilitates the free transfer of knowledge through interdisciplinary work and the exchange of artistic and curatorial projects.

The team of professionals is focused on developing strategies for collaboration and the integration of residents into various networks and platforms in the city of Winterthur and Zurich, as well as on finding opportunities for residents to anchor in new areas.

Staying at Villa Sträuli means:

● To receive professional support and personal guidance.
● To work collaboratively.
● To be nurtured by the exchange with the other artists in residence and with the local art scene.
● To immerse in the intense, cultural life of the city of Winterthur.
● To participate in Villa Sträuli’s diverse public cultural program including exhibitions, talks, concerts, screenings, lectures, meet-the-artist events, etc.
● To get technical support and advice from a professional team in research, production, and post-production of works.

Send your letter of motivation and CV in English to anastasia.alexandrova@artlink.ch

The grant covers per diems and travel expenses inside of Switzerland. Accommodation is included.

Please note that basic knowledge of at least one of the following languages is manadatory for all applicants: English, German or French.

Cima Città is an interdisciplinary residence in a old chocolate factory in the Ticino Alps. Cima Città stands for retreat, inspiration, concentration, and exchange. Curious and committed voices from art, science, and society come together here. Cima Città sees itself as a nucleus for the development and exchange of collective answers to pressing questions of our time. The residence, in its unique surroundings, inspires, connects and asks for bold ideas for futures worth living.

Cima Città is, above all, a place that lives through its guests and a large network of members, interested people, neighbors, and friends.

Send your letter of motivation and CV in English to anastasia.alexandrova@artlink.ch.

The grant covers per diems and travel expenses inside of Switzerland. Accommodation is not included.

Please note that basic knowledge of at least one of the following languages is manadatory for all applicants: English, German or French.

Since 1984 far° Nyon is known for its live arts festival which takes place every summer for approximately ten days. far° defines 'live arts' as "works activated by artists in front of an audience, including dance, performance, theatre, workshops, lectures." Their work is articulated around the axes of creation, artistic accompaniment, cultural participation and co-creation.

The residency FAR° seems particularly interesting for artists who:

· Situate their work in live arts (dance, performance, theatre).

· Need little technical support in their artistic work.

· Propose approaches that can be integrated into the territorial and social context.

· Are concerned with ecological and social sustainability and the questions of care.

· Want to experiment new modes of presentation to broaden the notion of live arts (artists from other artistic disciplines are welcome if they wish to explore live arts as an artistic mode of expression).