The Residents

Fleur Roggeman

Visual artist and scenographer born in 1998 in Antwerp, Belgium. She has a Bachelor in Sculpting and Installation Arts and graduated from Sint Lucas Antwerp with a master's degree in 2020. With her background in sculpting and installation art and interest in scenography, she creates abstract installations that combine these two worlds. Her pieces can function in a white cube and as a scenery. Fleur is also founder of a music and art festival called Nectar. She created a platform which allows her installations to be transformed into a part of the festival. It is also a platform for other artists who want to expose their work outside a white cube and who are open for collaborations. Through working with interactive light, which reacts to sound or movement, inside her installations she accentuates the presence of the audience. The audience is part of the installation and in that way, she creates experiences.

Sasha Kurmaz

(b. 1986 in Kyiv, Ukraine) currently lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2008 graduated from the National Academy of Culture and Arts Management in Kyiv. Kurmaz is an interdisciplinary artist, in his artistic practice, he studies various models of interaction with public space, social groups and communities as well as explores the changing relationship between human beings and the modern world. He uses different media to work with these issues, such as photography, video, public intervention, and performative situations. In most of his works, he plays a game of de-powering power structures as well as examines the tension between the citizen and the State.

Nadia Elamly

was born in 1994 in Geneva, Switzerland and lives and works between Lausanne and Geneva. She graduated from the research-based MA in Critical Curatorial Cybermedia Studies (CCC) (2019) and the BA in Visual Arts (2016) at the Visual Arts department of University of Art and Design (HEAD) in Geneva. She is currently attending the HEAD’s PhD-Forum, organized by Doreen Mende and the CCC department and led by Anselm Franke.
Since 2017, she has been involved in various curatorial projects that led her to co-manage independent art spaces in Geneva (Topic) and Lausanne (Tunnel Tunnel). More recently, she has been the co-founder and co-editor of the online research and peer-to-peer art review, Playground, initiated by Julie Robiolle in 2020. Since 2015, alongside her cultural projects, Elamly has been working in community centres, as well as urban public spaces in Lausanne. She is also active in feminist militant collectives. These practices are essential to her artistic research, which addresses issues of urban and social ecologies via intersectional feminist perspectives. In her work, she seeks performative and narrative strategies holding the potential to reverse the development of la vi[ll]e hostile: a wordplay referencing a «hostile city» and a «hostile life» that points to processes making collective and/or communal environments inhospitable. She expresses and diffuses this research through a practice of m[e]ntage: intertwining practices of monter (editing/montage) and mentir (lying, mendacious, lat. mentir) understood as Speculative Fabulation and forms of Mythopoeia.

Amy Pekal

(she/her, b.1993, New York) is a Netherlands based artist and researcher. She examines how dominant ideologies shape western culture’s understanding of the natural world. Working between the Netherlands, Chile and New York, she carries a netbag of feminist ontologies, naturecultures and fieldwork as tools to create propositions, environments, and situations that decolonize the dominant dualisms between nature and culture and imagine other ways of working across difference, human, more-than-human, and otherwise.
Her multi-year research: Assembling Ecologies (2020–2024) is conceived as a series of ongoing, situated investigations located at the intersection of nature and culture, Assembling Ecologies proposes a viable alternative of kinships through film, performative texts, and participatory events. The goal of Assembling Ecologies is to engage in experimental fieldwork practices and build relations between unlikely but necessary collaborators that work reorient and build, across difference, environmental identities that evoke repair, care, community and the commons.

Paul Hutzli

Swiss artist born in 1992. He studied visual arts at ESAM Caen/Cherbourg and at HEAD in Geneva, where he graduated with honours.
He uses various mediums - drawing, painting, installation and performance art. Fascinated by the carnivalesque, he carried out extensive research on this subject, writing his Master's thesis at HEAD-Geneva under the direction of Christophe Kihm. In his practice, he aims to take the context of the work into account, playing with its rules in order to transform it and to offer, for a brief moment, an ambiguous space open to the imagination.
He has had various solo and group shows in Switzerland, France and Germany. His most recent projects are Candy Island, a solo show at Halle Nord, where he exhibited a stained-glass space made out of sugar, as well as his participation to the Bourses déliées at the Fond Cantonal d'Art Contemporain in Geneva.

Grayson Earle

New media artist and educator. His work engages the site specificity of the internet, examining the ways in which traditional models of scarcity and spatialization are imposed through domain names and emergent blockchain technologies. His research also considers how the infrastructure of "the cloud" complicates binary understandings of written and oral histories.
He has worked as a professor at Oberlin College, New School, and the New York City College of Technology. He has presented his work and research at The Whitney Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, Radical Networks, the Magnum Foundation, and Open Engagement.