Embassy of Foreign Artists is launching a new cycle of Art&Science residencies (2026–2028) around the cross-cutting theme of imagination in research processes.
Context
For more than ten years, the Embassy of Foreign Artists (EOFA) in Geneva has been hosting artists in residence and promoting collaborations between art and science.
In partnership with the Campus Biotech Geneva Foundation, the University of Geneva, EPFL, the Fluxum Foundation, and several research laboratories, the Art&Science programme has enabled numerous artists and scientists to develop joint projects at the crossroads of disciplines, giving rise to unprecedented experiments, publications, and international presentations (Ars Electronica, Geneva International Film Festival, Moscow Biennale, etc.).
New programmme for 2026–2028 : Imagination
From 2026 onwards, the programme will be rolled out on a new basis, centred on the cross-cutting theme of imagination — considered to be an essential driver of thought, creativity and research. This cycle of residencies will run for three years (2026–2028), with three three-month sessions, and will be open to new scientific, academic, medical, technological and industrial partners.
The aim is to create artist-scientist duos around ongoing research projects, in which artistic practice questions, enriches or recontextualises scientific processes and representations.
At a time when generative technologies are revolutionising the way we think and create, the role of human imagination is becoming a field of exploration common to all disciplines.
With imagination in research processes as its guiding principle, the programme invites participants to explore together:
- the role of intuition in scientific and artistic research;
- how images, representations and metaphors influence the construction of knowledge;
- the links between natural, visual and digital languages, between reason and sensitivity, between formula and form.