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La Becque Artist Residency is pleased to announce the laureates of its Principal Residency Program for 2025.
Selected among more than 900 applicants, thirteen new residency projects will emerge next year at La Becque as part of the institution’s Principal Residency Program. The selected visuals artists, writers, performance artists, composers and sound artists were all picked on the strengths of proposals to develop original takes on the driving themes behind all residency programs at La Becque, namely the relationship between nature, the environment, and technology as seen through the prism of the arts.
La Becque is looking forward to welcoming the following artists in 2025: Alfatih (Switzerland), Phoenix Atala (France/Morocco), Sorour Darabi (Iran), Diambe (Brazil), Judith Hamann (Australia), Maria W Horn & Mats Erlandsson (Sweden), Invernomuto (Italy), Samir Laghouati-Rashwan (France/Morocco/Egypt), Zahra Malkani (Pakistan), Ventura Profana (Brazil), Umlilo Siya Ngcobo (South Africa), Jenna Sutela & Martti Kalliala (Finland) and Gary Zhexi Zhang (United Kingdom).
The transdisciplinary Jury of experts selecting 2025 residents was composed of François J. Bonnet (composer and director, INA GRM Paris), Stefanie Hessler (curator, writer and director, Swiss Institute New York), artist and curator Deborah-Joyce Holman (London), curator, editor and author Nora Nahid Khan (Los Angeles—also the first former Principal Residency Program laureate to join the jury), Samuel Leuenberger (director, SALTS Exhibition Space Basel), Boris Magrini (senior curator, LAS Art Foundation Berlin), Patrick de Rham (director, Arsenic Lausanne), joined by Fondation Françoise Siegfried-Meier trustee Anne-Catherine de Perrot and La Becque director Luc Meier.
La Becque’s Principal Residency Program offers its residents time for reflection and research, rather than a focus on production. Deeply convinced of the importance of such moments in the artistic process, La Becque is primarily interested in facilitating the phases of research, reflection, and other modes of transition in artistic work, rather than in capitalizing on creation.
Please head to La Becque’s website to discover a short portrait of each of these artists and collectives, and to get a first glimpse of what they will be working on during their time at La Becque. In 2025, they will be joined at La Becque by new participants to an ongoing partnership residency programs with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, and EDHEA—the Valais School of Art, Nestlé and Plateforme 10, home to three museums of the Canton of Vaud, mudac, Photo Elysée, and MCBA, with other partnerships and many additional visitors to be announced at a later date.
La Becque’s next call for applications, for residencies in 2026, will open in March 2025.
