Artist: Ashish Ghosh
Art Form: Interdiscipline
As the winner of the ART India, and the Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre’s Promising Artist Award 2008, Ashish Ghosh was awarded an opportunity to avail a residency in Switzerland to commemorate 60 years of Indo-Swiss friendship by Pro Helvetia- Swiss Arts Council.
Partner Organisation: iaab, Basel
Date: 1 August 2010 - 21 August 2010
Artist: M. Pravat
Art Form: Visual Arts
New Delhi - based artist M. Pravat is an alumnus of the M S University of Baroda in India. His images can be seen to convey a message of art overcoming order with spilled and overlaying painted forms on top of architectural drawings.
Partner Organisation: F+F Schule fur Kunst und Mediendesign
Date: 2 July 2010 - 26 September 2010
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: iaab, Basel
Date: 2 April 2010 - 30 June 2010
Artist: Anuradha Pathak
Art Form: Visual Arts
A visual artist practising interactive sculpture installation (non digital) and painting, Anuradha Pathak shifted base from Kolkata to New Delhi few years back. Taking the form of installations and performative practices that generate a dialogue between the work and the spectator, Anuradha's work pushes the boundaries of contemporary practice to make it more inclusive.
Partner Organisation: Rote Fabrik
Date: 2 April 2010 - 30 June 2010
Artist: Tobias Hitch
Art Form: Visual Arts
Over the last decade, independent freelance photographer Tobias Hitsch has worked on self-assigned long-term projects in East Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, in particular the Gaza Strip. He came to India first in 2007, travelling to several cities across the country, the last one being Kolkata. In 2010, the photographer wishes to deepen his view and knowledge about INdia and will continue his trend of taking images in a more metaphorical way, beyond photography as provider of information.
Partner Organisation: freelance photographer
Date: 2 February 2010 - 30 April 2010
Artist: Yann Marussich
Art Form: Performing Arts
Partner Organisation: freelance artist
Date: 17 December 2009 - 12 March 2010
Artist: Cristina Galbiati
Art Form: Performing Arts
In 1999, Cristina Galbiati, together with Ilija Luginbühl, created Trickster Teatro, a research project at the crossroads with different art forms. Beside its artistic works, the experimental vocation of the project Trickster Teatro took shape in the creation of la casa del tabacco, a space for creation and experimentation in the village of Novazzano, few kilometres from the Italian-Swiss border and base of the Trickster Teatro project. Trickster Teatro has toured in many international theatre festivals in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Cristina has developed an interest in Indian classical theatre, deepened by her regular research in Kerala.
Partner Organisation: Bengaluru Artist Residency-1 (BAR1), Bangalore
Date: 30 November 2009 - 28 February 2010
Artist: Katryn Hasler
Art Form: Music
Partner Organisation: Vyom Art Centre, Jaipur
Date: 29 November to 30 January 2010
Artist: Anurupa Roy
Art Form: Puppet Theatre
A professional puppeteer, Anurupa Roy studied puppet theatre at the Dramatiska Institutet at the University of Stockholm, Sweden, La Scoula Della Guaratelle (School of Traditional Glove Puppetry) in Naples, Italy and Institute International de la Marionette, France. She was bestowed the 'Ustad Bismilla Khan Yuva Puraskar 2007', a national award awarded by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, an autonomous body funded by the Ministry of Culture, India for her contribution to puppet theatre.
Partner Organisation: Rote Fabrik Zürich
Date: 1 November 2009 - 31 December 2009
Artist: Emanuel Geisser
Art Form: Visual Arts
Swiss artist Emanuel Geisser, an installation and video artist, studied in Geneva and Hamburg and lives in Berlin. He is well known for his peculiar, futuristic short film loops. During his stay in India he will be travelling across many cities collecting impressions and materials and shooting footage for his forthcoming body of work.
Partner Organisation: freelance artist
Date: 1 November 2009 - 7 February 2010
Artist: Manfred Werder
Art Form: Interdiscipline
Composer, performer, curator in the fields of experimental music, sound art / sonic art, Manfred’s performances articulate the relation of sound and silence, in which the space between the reduced sounds come to the fore. His work actualises time and space by letting the world’s natural abundance appear. He will dedicate his stay in Delhi to the practice of field research of the environmental sound.
Partner Organisation: freelance artist
Date: 5 October - 28 October 2009
Artist: Baptist Coelho
Art Form: Visual Arts
Baptist Coelho received his M.A. from BIAD, UK. His practice merges personal research with the collaboration from people of various cultures, geographies and histories. These interactions begin the process of investigation, questioning and interpretation. Baptist employs the use of atmospheric stimuli and residual work, such as found objects, to engage the participant into the story and allow them an interactive space to reflect on their own surroundings and predicaments. Each project incorporates various media such as: video, sound and architectural installation, photography, public-art, performance, found objects and site-specific work.
Partner Organisation: PROGR - Zentrum fèr Kulturproduktion, Bern
Date: 2 Sep - 29 Nov 2009
Artist: Claudia Rüegg
Art Form: Music
Claudia Rüegg is a soloist and chamber musician who performs in concerts across Europe and North America.Her broad repertoire includes en emphasis on 20th century music. Rüegg works as an interpreter often in an interdisciplinary context together with artists, dancers and film makers. Claudia Rüegg is the producer of „forum andere musik“, a series of contemporary music, arts and literature in Switzerland (www.forumanderemusik.ch).
Partner Organisation: freelance artist
Date: 5 Sep 2009 - 24 Feb 2010
Artist: Mohammad Abdus Salam
Art Form: Visual Arts
A postgraduate from the Institute Of Fine Arts, University Of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Abdus Salam received the Commonwealth Arts And Crafts Awards 2000. An upcoming and promising artist from Bangladesh, Abdus was also awarded a residency by Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan and the Jucar Gorges Rural Institrute of Arts and Viewpoint of Jucar, Spain.
Partner Organisation: Villa Straeuli at Winterthur
Date: 23 July - 30 September 2009
Artist: Atul Bhalla
Art Form: Visual Arts
Atul Bhalla essentially works with a concept which then leads him to the medium. He has been labled as a 'new media practitioner' who employs video, photography, performance (performative photography) and sculpture within his works or installations which try to bring in the experiential with a definite visual language which is his own.
Partner Organisation: iaab, Basel
Date: 10 April - 29 June 2009
Artist: Om Soorya
Art Form: Visual Arts
Hyderabad based artist, Om Soorya’s recent works deal with the issue of urbanization. Urbanization is not avoidable. How we take care of our depleting ecological system is what matters. As a painter he gives attention to both visual sensibility and content. The surroundings of Hyderabad, where he lives and works, influences the geographical space in Om’s work.
Partner Organisation: Kunst Halle, St Gallen
Date: 15 March - 30 May 2009
Artist: Ravi Agarwal
Art Form: Visual Arts
An artist and an environmental activist, Ravi works with photogrpahs, video and installations. While his previous work, revolved around issues of labour, street and the environment, his current practice is intertwined with explorations of 'personal ecologies,' and relational interractions with the rapidly changing spaces especially in evolving globalised urbanaties.
Partner Organisation: iaab, Basel
Date: 26 Feb - 27 March 2009
Artist: Marc Lee
Art Form: Network-oriented interactive Art
Marc Lee has been creating network-oriented interactive projects since 1999. Experimenting with information and communication technologies, his projects locate and critically discuss economic, political, cultural and creative "issue-clusters" that are essential for communication processes
in digital networks
Partner Organisation: Bengaluru Artist Residency One (BAR 1), Bangalore
Date: 1 Jan - 30 June 2009
Artist: Nina Weber
Art Form: Visual Arts
Nina Weber makes ink drawings that are very dense and ornamental. She always draws from nature. Very often, ornaments (culture) and organic structures (nature) mix. The borders between humans and animals are blurred. More recently, Nina Weber has started to work with oil colour.
Partner Organisation: Vyom Arts Centre, Jaipur
Date: 2 Dec 2008 - 2 April 2009
Artist: Cristin Wildbolz
Art Form: Performing Arts
A graduate from the Sweelinck Conservatorium, Cristin has worked with other musicians and artists in the areas of dance, theatre and film with the aim to investigate the intertwining, limiting and overlapping fields of those disciplines. She is also devoted to new music and new compositional methods.
Partner Organisation: Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi
Date: 1Nov - 1 Dec 2008
Artist: Anne Lorenz
Art Form: Visual Arts
In her multi-channel video work, Zürich based artist Anne concentrates on the human body with its habits and individual body language. She elaborates movement and choreographs it especially for the frame of the camera.
Partner Organisation:
Bengaluru Artist Residency One (BAR 1), Bangalore
Date: 1 Oct - 31 Dec 2008
Artist: Barbara Ellmerer
Art Form: Visual Arts
Author of “Journal for Art, Sex and Mathematics,” Swiss artist Barbara Ellmerer started the journal as a blog. Her work approaches questions on the arts, mathematics, natural sciences, gender and sexuality.
Partner Organisation: Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi
Date: 15 Sep - 15 Dec 2008
Artist: Michael Günzburger
Art Form: Visual Arts
Michael Günzburger lives and works in Zürich. His drawing based works have been exhibited in solo and group shows in Switzerland, Austria and Great Britain. His latest show is on until end of September 2008 in the Bregaglia Valley, Switzerland, where he shows in all the 94 existing restaurants of this place.
Partner Organisation: freelance artist
Date: 24 Aug - 21 Nov 2008
Artist: Amitesh Grover
Art Form: Theatre
Theatre director and a multi-media artist, Amitesh is a visiting faculty member at the National School of Drama. A Charles Wallace scholar, he completed his postgraduation in Visual Language of Performance from the Wimbledon College of Art, University of Arts London.
Partner Organisation: Rote Fabrik
Date: 12 July - 12 Dec 2008
Artist: Navneet Raman
Art Form: Visual Arts
Curator of Kriti Gallery, Varanasi, and a student of photography, Navneet has been trying to bring together a comprehensive collection of images of Varanasi. He also facilitates artists from around the world by offering them a residency at the Kriti Gallery.
Partner Organisation: Fotomuseum Winterthur
Date: May - June 2008
Artist: Dr Rekha Tandon
Art Form: Performing Arts
An Odissi dancer, choreographer and scholar, Dr Tandon's mission is to conserve, present and embody tradition, with a contemporary aesthetic. Her innovative productions are created from research of the classical, folk and tribal performing arts.
Partner Organisation: Villa Straeuli at Winterthur
Date: May - June 2008
Artist: Rahel Hegnauer
Art Form: Visual Arts
Rahel Hegnauer, a visual artist from Zurich has studied at the Department of Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. Following which, Rahel did her postgraduate studies in Art in Public Sphere (Master of Art) in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Partner Organisation:
Bangaluru Artist Residency One (bar1): Oct'07 - Mar'08
Khoj International Artists Association: Nov'07 - Dec'07
Artist: Abhishek Hazra
Art Form: Visual Arts
Abhishek Hazra is a visual artist based in Bangalore. His current body of work explores the intersections between technology and culture through the narrative device of a 'visual fable'. He is also interested in the sociology of scientific practice.
Partner Organisation: PROGR
Date: Oct'07 - Jan'08
Artist: Karthik S.
Art Form: Performing Arts
Karthik S. a Bangalore based percussionist is known for his expertise on the Mridangam. Keen to take his music to new and unexplored spaces, Karthik is now experimenting with accompanying both dance and quasi-theatre.
Workshop with: Lucas Niggli renowned Swiss percussionist
Date: 9 Sept'07 - 22 Sept'07
Artist: Varun Narain
Art Form: Puppet Theatre
Varun Narain is a contemporary puppeteer from India who is known for establishing and popularising artistic puppetry and object theatre, as an art form, to an adult audience.
Partner Organisation: Schlachthaus Theater, Berne
Date: Aug'07 - Oct'07
Artist: Himanshu Verma
Art Form: Curator
Himanshu Verma, director of Red Earth, an arts company working with diverse forms of cultural expression, specialises in curating visual art, art festivals and multi-media art projects.
Partner Organisations: Kronika Gallery, Bytom
in collaboration with Pro Helvetia Warsaw
Date: May 2007
