Valeria Alonso
*1979, lives and works in Buenos Aires
Residency period: April until June 2013
Comedian, dancer, choreographer, author, video artist
Originally from Argentina, Valeria Alonso has lived between France and Spain for over 10 years. Since 2000, she directs the art company La Cabra and also works as a performer for other art companies such as la Guarda, La Fura …
Sanja Latinovic
1983, Serbia, lives and works in Belgrad
Residency period: April until July 2013
Artist, performer
Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Sculpture. She is interested in performance, photography and video work. Since she is a sculpturer by vocation, she frequently questions the monumental character of the sculptural in her work.…
Paul Clouvel
1971, Saint-Etienne, France, lives and works in Strasbourg and Geneva
Residency period: April until July 2013
Composer
As an electroacoustic composer, Paul Clouvel expresses his work in contemporary electronic music as well as in sound installations, video-musical and choreographic creations. In his pieces “Paul Clouvel exposes his facetious approach…
Sandro Steudler
*1971, lives and works in Zurich and in Graubünden
Residency period: June until September 2012
Artist, performer
Sandro Steudler’s work combines installation, performance and theoretical research around his project der Bau (www.der-bau.ch) initiated in 2003.
During his residency at the Maison Baron, Sandro Steudler has pursued his theoretical research…
Charlotte Seidel
*1981, Hamburg, Germany, lives and works in Paris
Residency period: September until December 2012
Artist
«Charlotte Seidel creates small and discreet interventions, sometimes visible, in public and domestic spaces. Placing small plastic soldiers on the edge of a drain, hanging clothes of a ghost resident out to dry in an Italian village, embroidering …
Joshua Sofaer
*1972, Cambridge, England, lives and works in London
Residency period: November 2012
Performer
The audience is an important element of Joshua Sofaer’s performance: the participatory aspect contributes to the final result. The British artist analyses and plays with words related to the art world. Often a parody, his work uses mechanisms of talk shows as …
Emil Ouroumov
*1979, Bulgaria, lives and works in Paris
Residency period: September 2012 until February 2013
Curator
Emil Ouroumov studied art and museology at the University Paris 8 and also holds a master degree in exhibition organization delivered by the University Paris 1. He has collaborated with different curators such as Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Gallery),…
Merel van Tilburg
*1977, Holland, lives and works in Amsterdam
Residency period: November 2012 until March 2013
Critic
Art Critic Merel van Tilburg wrote her doctorate thesis at the University of Geneva before going back to her native country. The idea she wishes to develop during her residency is to immerse in the contemporary art world of Geneva by interviewing artists that…
Authentic Boys
Boris Van Hoof, *1978, Eindhoven, Holland, lives and works in Rotterdam
Aaike Stuart, *1982, Bergen op Zoom, Holland, lives and works in Berlin
in collaboration with genevan artist Gregory Stauffer
Residency period: August 2012
Performers, directors
Authentic Boys est un collectif composé de deux performeurs et deux réalisateurs, qui travaillent…