Embassy of Foreign Artists     
Screening Nnenna Onuoha

We are pleased to announce the screening dedicated to our latest resident of the year, filmmaker Nenna Onuoha. The artist will present “Baby Picture”, a work in progress in which she examines how, for a generation of south-eastern Nigerians, childhood photographs and home videos, though scarce in or entirely absent from family albums, are ubiquitous

ART & STORIES

*1993 in Lagos (Nigeria), lives and works in Berlin (Germany)

Residency period: October to December 2022

Artist, scholar

 

Nnenna Onuoha is a Ghanaian-Nigerian researcher, filmmaker, curator and artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her films and videos centre Afrodiasporic voices to explore monumental silences surrounding the histories…

LLUIS ALEXANDRE CASANOVAS BLANCO
  • ART & TERRITOIRE

*1985 Barcelona, lives and works in Madrid

Architecte and curator

 

Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco is an  architect, curator, and scholar. He has a joint appointment as a curator and scientific advisor for the new architecture and design collection at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and at the Education Department.…

MANON THOMAS-PAVLOWSKY

*1987 Grenoble, lives and works in Geneva.

Residency period: July – September 2022

Manon Thomas Pavlowsky is an object designer and scenographer. She defends a sensitive approach to design and pays particular attention to the associations of materials and textures, to the harmony of colors, but also to the gestures induced by the devices she designs.…

CASSANDRE POIRIER-SIMON & MANON THOMAS-PAVLOWSKY
  • ART & TERRITORY

Residency period: July – September 2022

 

*1987 Beauvais, lives and works in Geneva.

Cassandre Poirier-Simon founded the digital communication agency Myth_n in 2016, through which she collaborates with museums, teacher-exs, author-exs and cultural institutions. She designs digital creation workshops for all audiences,…

BLERTA AXHIJA
  • ART & TERRITORY

*1996, Geneva. Lives and works in Zurich.

Period of residence: July – September 2022

In collaboration with the Canton of Geneva and the Villa Bernasconi

Blerta Axhija studied architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL BSc and MSc) where she graduated in 2020. Her master’s work analyzes the architecture…

ART & SCIENCE

Scientific research has always carried with it the greatest hopes and the greatest perils for humanity. Every great discovery opens the doors to a world of new possibilities. The current pandemic and the mistrust of vaccination show the importance of improving communication about research in biotechnology and neuroscience and its applications in the health,

FLEURYFONTAINE
Galdric Fleury & Antoine Fontaine
*1985 in Paris region.
Live and work in Paris and Uzerche.

fleuryfontaine are an artist duo working on the place that each person occupies in the neoliberal, artificial, secured environments that condition our behaviours, our bodies, and our relationship with the world and with others. Their work assumes the form of