Curated and organised projects | a selected overview

2025

5. Performance Open-Air St. Gallen. Stadtpark and Frauenpavillon. St.Gallen/CH

 LEGS – Performance Relay. Le Ventre – Old Synagogue Hégenheim. A PANCH-Performance Art Network CH Project. Hégenheim/FR

What Language Do We Speak? Performance Day Lugano. Co-curatorship: Chris Regn. Organised by Virginia Fasinelli and Al Fadhil (Visarte- Ticino). Villa Saroli. Lugano/CH

2020-2025 ACT-Performance Festival of the Swiss Art Academies. Diferent venues. Among others Kulturfolger and Löwenbräu Art Center. With a publication marking its 20th anniversary in 2022, Zurich and Biel, /CH

2024  

(((PERFORMANCE ON AIR))). Speaker. Live broadcast of performances on Radio Lumpen Station.A collaboration between PANCH-Performance Art Network CH and Lumpen Station, hosted by Lumpen Station. Kunsthaus Biel Centre d’art Bienne/Biel.

2010- 2024 PERFORMANCE REIHE NEU-OERLIKON 2024. Performance Festival. Oerliker Park. and Wahlenpark. Zurich/CH

River’s Edges – Lungo il Fiume. Gathering. Introducing PANCH – Performance Art Network CH. Performances and Talks. Organised by Natalie Peters and Yara Li Mennel. Casa Stanata. Locarno/CH

2022

BANG BANG – Translocal hi:stories of performance art. Chapter 5, PANCH-Performance Art network CH-Social Elegance (Friendships, Scenes, Networks) Tinguely Museum, Solitude Park, Basel / CH. Curation and organisation among others:

«Focus North Macedonia: Hybrids, Artistic Practices» artists from North Macedonia, Co-organisation  and co-curatorship with Verica Kovacevska. 

«Parla Palma: an exchange with artists from Ticino». Performance and artist talk with Anna Rigamonti,  Natalie Peters and Yara Li Mennel.

 «Morphing The Roma Label – Das Buch im Raum». Live performance and talk mit Roma Jam Session art Kollektiv.

 «Performative artistic action as a place of encounter and confrontation”. A selection of Performance-Videoprogramm with artists from Zurich and Glarus. Co-curatorship with Julia Wolf. 

2020

PERFORMANCE REIHE GOES BASEL. Performances, Videoperformances and Curators Talk. Kaskadenkondensator. Basel/CH 

 «Reminiscences – Leftovers – Artifacts – Remains». Exhibition of the objects of the PERFORMANCE   REIHE NEU-OERLIKON 2010-2019. Material, Raum für Buchkultur. Zurich/CH

PERFORMANCE REIHE GOES BASEL. Performances, Videoperformances and Curators Talk.   Kaskadenkondensator. Basel/CH 

2019

EXTRA! Festival Internacional de Performance. Encuentro Binacional México/Suiza. Curator for Switzerland. Pancho Lopez: curator for México. Ex Teresa Arte Actual / Artspace México. Mexiko City (MX).

2018 

VOLUMES. Independent Art Publishing Fair. Curator of the performance programme. Kunsthalle, Zurich.

2017 

Accion!MAD17-XIV Encuentro de Arte Acción. Curator for the guest country: Switzerland. Artístic director: Nieves Correa. Naves Matadero.Madrid /ES

LEGS. Performances. Ausstellungsraum Klingental. Co-organised together with Olivia Wiederkehr. Basel.

1. Performance Reihe St. Gallen. Curator and initiator of the project. MoE. Museum of Emptiness. St. Gallen.

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