Past Residents
Past Resident2022: Canton de Vaud, Service des Affaires Culturelles
Philémon Otth
Philémon Otth’s artistic practice revolves around challenging questions of time and temporalities, history and histories, material and immaterial, transparency and opacity. He is interested in exploring sites and situations by questioning the implications of images and objects within their spatial and socio-historical contexts. Otth approaches these ideas through configurations of form and language, displacement and shifting strategies.
Philémon Otth has exhibited work at CAN – Centre d’Art de Neuchâtel; Plymouth Rock, Zürich; and Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, all Switzerland, among others.
Residents from Switzerland
Past Resident2021: Sobey Art Awards, National Gallery of Canada
Marie-Michelle Deschamps
Marie-Michelle Deschamps’ multimedia work focuses on language as an inhabitable space–a veritable structure and place where forms reside. Her practice is rooted within conversation, collaboration, and translation, underscoring the transformative place of language within the formal dialect of architecture.
Marie-Michelle Deschamps has exhibited work at Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art (MUDAM), Luxembourg City; Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, among others.
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2021: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Anna Witt
Anna Witt’s artistic practice is performative, participatory, and political. She creates situations that reflect interpersonal relationships and power structures as well as conventions of speaking and acting. Her public experimental arrangements often physically draw passersby by repeating imitation of specifically coded gestures and developing complex choreographies, thus giving the participants an opportunities for individual articulation and authorship.
Anna Witt has exhibited work at Belvedere 21, Vienna; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; and KW Institue for Contemporary Art, Berlin, among others.