Principal Residency Program Laureates 2024

La Becque Artist Residency is pleased to announce the laureates of its Principal Residency Program for 2024.

Selected among more than 600 applications, twelve new residency projects will emerge next year at La Becque as part of its Principal Residency Program. The selected visuals artists, writers, performance artists, dancers, composers and sound artists were all picked on the strengths of proposals developing 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’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.

La Becque is looking forward to welcoming the following artists in 2024: Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz (Switzerland/Germany), Zahrasadat Hakim (Iran), Astrit Ismaili (Kosovo), Benoît Piéron (France), Marina Rosenfeld (United States), The School of Mutants (Senegal/Mauritania/France), Time is Away (Jack Rollo & Elaine Tierney) (United Kingdom/Ireland), Colin Self (United States), Luana VItra (Brazil), Francis Whorrall-Campbell (United Kingdom), Elvia Wilk (United States), Tiran Willemse (South Africa).

The transdisciplinary Jury of experts selecting 2024 residents was composed of percussionist and composer Alexandre Babel, 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, Elise Lammer (curator and art critic, Institut Kunst HGK FHNW, Basel), visual artist Mai-Thu Perret, Boris Magrini (curator, director, HEK—House of Electronic Arts, Basel), Patrick de Rham (director, Arsenic Lausanne), and Stefano Stoll (director, Images Vevey), joined by Fondation Françoise Siegfried-Meier trustee Tamara Jenny-Devrient and La Becque director Luc Meier.

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 2024, 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, with other partnerships and many additional visitors to be announced at a later date.

La Becque’s public programs will also feature an exciting calendar of offerings ranging from performances to conferences, concerts and exhibitions, both on-site and in collaboration with partner institutions. It will follow up on an intense 2023 program that featured the fourth edition of Modern Nature – An Homage to Derek Jarman, the launch of the quarterly cycle of public encounters and conversations Artist Communities featuring La Becque residents and other artists and protagonists of contemporary art-making, as well as a range of experimental music performances, in particular the concert programming by Luc Meier of Latifa Echakhch’s installation Der Allplatz at Art Basel, and the co-curation of the first international Sound Biennale in Valais, Switzerland in fall 2023.

Fall 2023 will also mark La Becque’s fifth anniversary, with a special program scheduled for September 8, 2023 to be unveiled soon. Stay tuned and save the date!