Artist: Navid Tschopp
Art Form: Visual Arts Navid’s field of work lies between the orient and the occident and contains the many layers between image and action. His research is about identity in the field of transcultural images and in context art. He is interested in the Indian pictorial world, on which the Persian art history is based. The aim of his work is to create a ‘third space’ between orient and occident / European and eastern culture where a new concept of identity based on learning from each other can grow. Navid wants to focus his study on the Parsi community that resides in India.
Partner Organisation: New Delhi Residency, Delhi
Date: 1 January- 10 March 2012
Artist: Boris Nikitin
Art Form: Performing Arts
Boris Nikitin studied applied theatre studies in Giessen where he organised the international diskurs festival in 2005. His performance “Woyzeck” won the Grand Jury Prize at the Festival 100° in Berlin. His producetion 'F for Fake' was performed at the plateaux festival in Frankfurt Germany. “Woyzeck” and “F for Fake” were invited to the Impulse Festival as two of ten most exceptional independent theatre productions where Boris received the Dietmar N. Schmidt-prize.
Partner Organisation: Artmosphere, Bangalore
Date: 1 December 2011- 29 February 2012
Artist: Ruth Buck
Art Form: Visual Arts
An iaab exchange artist, Ruth Buck will be working on an audio-visual art project. She will be recording sounds in public spaces and then creating an audio data in the studio. In her works, Ruth goes beyond the margins of art genres and operates in different art media. She produces tactile works, conceptual works with words, photo light boxes that are objects in the space and sounds that create soundscapes.
Partner Organisation: Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi
Date: 3 October 2011 to 31 March 2012
Artist: Frida Leon Béraud
Art Form: Puppet theatre
Frida is a puppeteer and an actress from Zurich. She has specialised in doll-theatre and has travelled extensively with her performances in USA, Austria, Germany and Switzerland. She studied puppetry at the «Ernst Busch» Drama College in Berlin. After gaining experience in acting, street and movement theatre, Frida Leon Béraud joined hands with musician Frauke Jakobi to establish the Dalang Puppencompany in 2004. A freelance director and scenographer, Frida is also the co-founder of ‘Chamäleon’.
Partner Orgnisation: New Delhi Residency
Date: 19 September to 15 November 2011
Artist: Bharatesh GD
Art Form: Visual Arts
Bharatesh is a new media artist who works with video, installation, photography and public interactive projects. In his early work he has dealt with the issues of the human body, Gods, popular culture and the regions cinema in the social, spiritual and iconographical context. An art activist, Bharatesh is also the founder of a film club called 'SaaliGudi', that helps visual artists, film students, and young video artists.
Partner Organisation: PROGR, Bern
Date: 14 August to 14 Novembr 2011
Artist: Tarun Jung Rawat
Art Form: Visual Arts
Tarun Jung Rawat works with mixed media. He cuts across literary and artistic references to produce a kind of playful art loaded with a hint of magic and with elements from the world of fantasy and fairytales. Tarun's works are replete with virtual experiments in painting and sculpture, design and art. His works were recently included in the permanent collection of the ESSL Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna.
Partner Organisation: iaab, Basel
Date: 1 July 2011 – 28 September 2011
Artist: Jenson Anto
Art Form: Visual Arts
Working in blacK and white abstracts has been an experience in overlay of stark, painterly sense of cathartic and rhythmic order, for Jenson. Indulging with found objects alongside has led to studio based assemblages and land based installations.
Partner Organisation: Fundaziun NAIRS, Scuol
Date: 15 May 2011 - 15 July 2011
Artist: Srishti Rana
Art Form: Applied Arts
A graduate of Textile Design from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, Srishti has done her post graduation in Textile Design from Winchester School of Art where her MA involved research on common links and interpretations between art practiced in the East and the West. She worked on a collection of contemporary prints & surface textures.
Partner Organisation: Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Date: 18 April - 18 June 2011
Artist: Sreejata Roy
Art Form: Visual Arts
An artist with a particular interest in community-related projects, Sreejata has been deeply interested in exploring the new labour practices that have developed in the neo-liberal political/economic environment, as an articulation and consequence of globalisation. She has been using mixed and digital media, informed by a theoretical framework, to produce narratives.
Partner Organisation: iaab, Basel
Date: 2 April - 30 June 2011
Artist: Paribartana Mohanty
Art Form: Visual Arts
The recipient of the Emerging Artist Award 2010, Paribartana Mohanty completed his BFA in Printmaking from Dhauli College of Art and Craft, Bhuvaneshwar and MA in History of Art from the National Museum Institute, New Delhi. The Emerging Artists Award, awarded by the Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art, supports young artists studying or practicing in India who demonstrate extraordinary skill and promise in the visual arts.
Partner Organisation: PROGR Berne
Date: 2 April - 30 June 2011
Artist in Residence 2007 - 2011
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Artist: Reichlin Guido and Karin Walchli
Partner Organisation: Vyom Centre for Contemporary Arts, Jaipur
Artist: Sarah Kueng and Lovis Caputo from Zurich
Partner Organisation: Vyom Centre for Contemporary Arts, Jaipur
Artist: Bernard Cosey
Partner Organisation: New Delhi Residency
Artist: Sankar Venkateswaran
Partner Organisation: Rote Fabrik Zürich
Artist: Cristina Galbiati
Partner Organisation: 1 Shanti Road, Bangalore
Artist: Indrajit Hazra
Partner organisation: Villa Sträuli
Artist: Jason Kahn
Partner Organisation: Sarai, New Delhi
Sonja Feldmeier
Partner Organisation: Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi
Niklaus Rüegg
Partner Organisations: Vyom Arts Centre, Jaipur and Alice Boner House, Varanasi
Ashish Ghosh
Partner Organisation: iaab, Basel
M. Pravat
Partner Organisation: F+F Schule fur Kunst und Mediendesign
Jenson Anto
Partner Organisation: iaab, Basel
Artist: Anuradha Pathak
Partner Organisation: Rote Fabrik
Tobias Hitch
Partner Organisation: freelance photographer
Yann Marussich
Partner Organisation: freelance artist / New Delhi Residency
Cristina Galbiati
Partner Organisation: Bengaluru Artist Residency-1 (BAR1), Bangalore
Katryn Hasler
Partner Organisation: Vyom Art Centre, Jaipur
Artist: Emanuel Geisser
Partner Organisation: freelance artist / New Delhi Residency
Artist: Claudia Rüegg
Partner Organisation: freelance artist / New Delhi Residency
Anurupa Roy
Partner Organisation: Rote Fabrik Zürich
Manfred Werder
Partner Organisation: freelance artist
Baptist Coelho
Partner Organisation: PROGR - Zentrum fèr Kulturproduktion, Bern
Mohammad Abdus Salam
Partner Organisation: Villa Straeuli at Winterthur
Atul Bhalla
Partner Organisation: iaab, Basel
Om Soorya
Partner Organisation: Kunst Halle, St Gallen
Ravi Agarwal
Partner Organisation: iaab, Basel
Marc Lee
Partner Organisation: Bengaluru Artist Residency One (BAR 1), Bangalore
Nina Weber
Partner Organisation: Vyom Arts Centre, Jaipur
Cristin Wildbolz
Partner Organisation: Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi
Anne Lorenz
Partner Organisation:
Bengaluru Artist Residency One (BAR 1), Bangalore
Barbara Ellmerer
Partner Organisation: Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi
Michael Günzburger
Partner Organisation: freelance artist / New Delhi Residency
Amitesh Grover
Partner Organisation: Rote Fabrik
Navneet Raman
Partner Organisation: Fotomuseum Winterthur
Dr Rekha Tandon
Partner Organisation: Villa Straeuli at Winterthur
Rahel Hegnauer
Partner Organisation:
Bangaluru Artist Residency One (bar1) and
Khoj International Artists Association
Abhishek Hazra
Partner Organisation: PROGR
Karthik S.
Workshop with: Lucas Niggli
Varun Narain
Partner Organisation: Schlachthaus Theater, Berne
Himanshu Verma
Partner Organisations: Kronika Gallery, Bytom
in collaboration with Pro Helvetia Warsaw
