Embassy of Foreign Artists     
Larry Walker-Tonks

*1992 in Hartlepool, lives and works in Manchester
Residency period: December 2017
Fine artist

In partnership with Salford University, Islington Mill and Castlefield Gallery

Larry Walker-Tonks was born in Hartlepool, England. He developed an interest in art at a young age and graduated from Teesside University in 2013 with a Degree in Fine Art. Shortly …

Gil Delindro

*1989 in Porto, lives and works in Berlin
Residency period : January to March 2018
Multidisciplinary artist

Gil Delindro is a unique presence among a new generation of Sound and Media Arts. He has distinguished himself by the research on organic elements, ephemeral events and intangible processes in Nature. His cross-border practice is based upon film, installation,…

Reza Haeri

*1974 in Tehran, lives and works Tehran
Residency period: April to June 2018
Filmmaker and curator

Reza Haeri has recently produce : Final Fitting (2008, Grand Prize from Cinema Verité Festival), All Restrictions End (2009, Grand Prize from Rio de Janeiro Film Festival, Berlinale 2010) and Sons of Sindbad (2017). In 2015 he curated Metaphor and Politics:

Nihan Somay

*1988 in Istanbul, lives and works in Istanbul
Residency period : April to June 2018
Artist

Nihan Somay works with objects, printed matter, acts and text incorporated in temporary settings, which are often produced as a result of collective efforts. Conversing, eating, walking, reading together are essential while building up the research themes (in life…

Molly Joyce

*1992 in Pittsburgh (USA), lives and works in Pittsburgh
Residency period : October to December 2018
Composer and performer

Granted by the Republic and Canton of Geneva 

Active as a composer and performer, Molly Joyce’s music has been described as “impassioned” (The Washington Post), written to “superb effect” (The Wire), and…

Mohammad Abbasi

*1977 in Shiraz, lives and works in Tehran
Residency period: October to December 2018
Actor, dancer, choreographer, filmmaker and festival director

Granted by the Republic and Canton of Geneva
With the support of Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts council

A collective residency with Gavin Krastin and Anastasia Proshutinskaya.

Mohammad Abbasi studied theatre in…

Jason Thorpe Buchanan

*1986 in San Mateo, California, lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA
Residency period: January to June 2018
Composer, conductor, educator, and video artist

Jason Thorpe Buchanan’s work explores temporal dissonance, memory, and perception through the structural intersection of physical gesture, fragile sounds, and behavior of live audio/video…

Beth Dillon

*1987 in Sydney, lives and works between Australia and Switzerland
Residency period : January to March 2018
Performer, video and mixed media artist

Beth makes works of costumed performance, text-based experimentation, video and mixed media installation that explore negotiations of site, self and culture. In her solo and collaborative work, Beth plays…

Angela Stiegler
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*1987 in Munich, lives and works in Munich and Berlin
Residency period : tba
Visual artist and works with sculpture, video and performance

Granted by the Republic and Canton of Geneva 

Angela Stiegler shows the human body as a digitally sculptural image of human actions and human affect. Stiegler is demonstrating that within the horizon…

Fana Tshabalala

*1987 in Sebokeng, lives and works in Johannesburg

Residency period : September to October 2017

Choreographer, dancer and teacher

In collaboration with Pro Helvetia Johanessburg

During his residency, Fana Tshabalala will develop a new work from his longer-term investigation into a kind of “ideal man” within different societies, their changing roles…

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