10/2026 Edith Steyer (D) free improvising and composing clarinet and saxophone player, rooted in jazz and contemporary classical music
10/2026 Felix Gaedtke (D), Gayatri Parameswaran (D) Emmy®-nominated documentary makers and co-founders of the immersive storytelling studio NowHere Media, backgrounds in journalism and specialize in creating virtual and augmented reality experiences that blend evocative storytelling with technology and social change > 10.10. VR PERFORMANCE
09/2026 Corinne Odermatt (CH) textile works, performance, music video and film, curation of exhibitions Nik Fischer (CH) cultural mediator and music organizer, partner at the booking agency Glad We Met and much more...
08/2026 Mord Fuzztang (CH) Music between heavy garage punk and captivating Krautrock
08/2026 Corinne Diserens (CH/F) curator of Media Collection at the Hamburger Kunsthalle
08/2026 Dave Gisler (CH) guitarist, known for his idiosyncratic sound style, which combines elements of jazz, rock, punk, noise, and free improvisation > 26.08. CONCERT
07/2026 LANDSKRON FESTIVAL (F/CH) micro-festival in Hofstetten-Flüh, Switzerland, organized by Verein Landskron, blending culture, nature walks, music, dance, performances, and regional cuisine across borders at Landskron Castle. team retreat.
07/2026 Gunnar Geisse (D) Improviser, composer and performer. He moves between the fields of experimental/improvised music and new music Christiane Böhnke-Geisse (D) Artistic director of the Bingen Swingt jazz festival, director of schwere reiter musik Munich and, for many years, the Unterfahrt jazz club.
07/2026 INTERNATIONAL YOUNG COMPOSERS ACADEMY, Ensemble intercontemporain, intensive summer program aimed at emerging composers and conductors worldwide, the program culminates in premieres of new compositions by the participating world class ensembles in Loco and Lugano (LAC). 11.7. CONCERT
06/2026 Katharina Siegel (D/GB) multidisciplinary visual artist explores concepts of experience, space, temporality, and process through objects, drawing, and text; founder and artistic director of ACRE in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Lucy Helton (GB) photography, artist books, and sculptures, environmental themes such as human impact on space through fictional and prophetic works at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Rahel Zoller (D/GB) London-based artist, book arts, and design specialist and educator, known for questioning the concept of what a book is by subverting, embracing, and interrogating the form and materiality of the book.
06/2026 Bettina Klöti (CH) singer, performer, and atelier operator specializing in voice work, resonance, rituals, and process-oriented psychological guidance through vocal practices.
06/2026 Tom Lane (GB) video works that blur boundaries between documentary, fiction, and experimental formats.
06/2026 Marie Delprat (F) hybrid projects that fuse diverse musical genres such as early music, contemporary experimental, EDM, ambient, techno, and minimal music. David Koch (CH) Songwriter, Multiinstrumentalist, Produzent, Vintage-Synthesizer-Fetischist und Circuit-Bender.
05/2026 Alexandra Gruebler (D) Berlin-based composer, producer, instrumentalist, vocalist and performer, working at the intersection of music, poetics and performance, primarily through the solo project Baal & Mortimer. Samuel Alessandro Stevenson (GB) Climate & Systemic Risk Research Analyst and musician.
05/2026 Corinne Odermatt (CH) multidisciplinary works with textiles, drawing, video, and installations, often combining pop, trash, and art motifs in her exhibitions and art books Nik Fischer (CH) music curator and cultural mediator who discovers international musicians, initiates cultural projects, and conceives and accompanies music events as well as interdisciplinary programs.
04/2026 die summe.xyz (CH) Union of Basel based self-organized art initiatives and projects aimed at strengthening synergies and discourses. Retraite.
04/2026 Portal Radikal: Matthias Müller (D) sound artist and trombonist specializing in free improvisation, blending experimental trombone techniques. Jasmin Kiranoglu (D) blending body, space, objects, and audience in empathetic, vulnerable theatre-dance encounters exploring inside-outside dynamics.
04/2026 Maya Dunietz (ISR)artist and musician,classical music, visual art, installation, and concert performance.
04/2026 Tyan Fritschi (CH) theorist and writer - queer theory, trans studies, postcolonial studies, autotheory, and political philosophy Maurício Ianes (Brasil) performance artist inspired by the likes of Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramović and Chris Burden.
04/2026 Titus Engel (CH) conductor with a focus on both contemporary opera and Baroque opera in historically informed performance. Sophie Engel-Bansac (CH) violin teacher, concert violist, Guild-licensed Feldenkrais Teacher, lecturer for music physiology.
03/2026 Léo Collin (F) Léo’s practice intertwines contemporary music, spoken forms, and multimedia elements—text, video, sound, and stage. Francesca Sproccati (CH) artist working in the field of Performing Arts, scenic installations in which sound, matter and sensation stimulate and enhance the dimension of listening.
03/2026 Mark Staff Brandl (CH) Artist, art historian and art philosopher
03/2026 Hermanos Perdidos (CH) six-piece world-latin-punk band from Biel/Bienne.
02/2026 Kim de l’Horizon (CH) gender-fluid, non-binary, poetry, prose and plays, the debut novel Blutbuch (Blood Book) was awarded both the German Book Prize and the Swiss Book Prize in 2022. Ramón Oliveras (CH) specialises in creative beats and sounds, he tours the world with the queer indie rock band Dalai Puma and the contemporary groove quintet Ikarus. Eva Bracey (CH) neuroscientist studying the hypothalamus, an academic mentor and peer counsellor
12/2025 Violeta Motta (Colombia) experimental and research-based approach to the flute, combining in-depth baroque interpretation on historical instruments with contemporary, improvisational sound exploration, Sylvain Monchocé (BE) multi-instrumentalist improviser playing saxophones, flutes, gayageum and daegeum
12/2025 Nathalie Froehlich (CH) rapper and artist known for her dynamic performances blending reggaeton, baile funk, experimental music, and techno; Hook (CH) producer and member of Muthoni Drummer Queen, Karun, Murmures Barbares, Yeba; Elsa Dorbath (F) Co-soloist Sinfonietta Lausanne, Principal Cello and artistic director Camerata Ataremac; David Zo Meroni (aka Mero Uno) (CH) art director, graphic designer and artist > Festival Label Suisse creation
11/2025 Simon Ayling (GB), Kathrin Suhner (CH), Nicole Bloch (F), Alexandre Jaques (CH), Loïc Veya (CH) das Quintett / le quintet > The ensemble creates improvised music in the moment, inspired by the place, emerging through spontaneous communication and creative impulses, continuously transforming and remaining a fleeting, authentic expression unique to itself. This ephemeral, orchestral sound shifts from powerful sounds to delicate, almost whispered melodies.
10/2025 Lucien Bricola (CH) artist and musician based in Basel, known for his work as a fashion student, designer, and pop music performer
10/2025 Costanza Pellici (Argentina) voice performance artist,research on vocal practices in nature, experimenting with singing in mountain environments and writing about the relationship between human voices and mountain landscapes
10/2025 Maya Hottarek (CH) based in Biel/Bienne whose interdisciplinary practice in ceramics, sound, and found materials explores social, economic, and interpersonal dynamics, Jeronim Horvat (D) sculptural, painterly, and installation-based works explore the intersections of economy, mythology, and everyday contrasts
10/2025 Lea Hagmann (CH) ethnomusicologist and filmmaker
09/2025 Outi Pulkkinen (FIN), Nadja Räss (CH), Mariana Sadovska (UKR) three vocal artists deeply engaged in the preservation, reinterpretation, and expansion of traditional music forms from Finland, Switzerland, and Ukraine 2.10.CONCERT
09/2025 Marie Delprat (F) hybrid projects that fuse diverse musical genres such as early music, contemporary experimental, EDM, ambient, techno, and minimal music, Tom Lane (GB) video works that blur boundaries between documentary, fiction, and experimental formats
09/2025 Merlin Bauer (A) action and conceptual artist known for photo works, objects, installations, and interventions in public spaces
08/2025 Kim Ngoc (Tran Thi Kim Ngoc) (Vietnam) pioneering Vietnamese composer and mixed-media artist specializing in experimental music and music-theatre, she is the founder and artistic director of DomDom, the first independent center in Vietnam devoted to contemporary experimental music and art
08/2025 ox&ö-SHIFTING BORDERS, Oksana Yushko (UKR), Arthur Bondar (UKR), Philip Bartels (CH), Simone Keller (CH) triggered by a co-collaboration project by Pro Helvetia in Armenia, Georgia, and Switzerland, an intermedia music theater piece is being created that deals with physical, political, social, and imaginary border shifts
08/2023 Project Transmitting Stones with: Manel Benchouk (Algeria), Amal Yakoobi (Tunesia), Cellier Wren (CH), a collaboration between EL Moutanakil (Algeria), Nomads production (Tunisia), Sable & Chaux (CH) musicians, music management
08/2023 Projekt Musica Transalpina: Matthias Klenota (D), Eva Saladin (CH) (Violine), Marc Pauchard (CH) (Zink), Giovanna Baviera (LUX) (Gesang, Viola da Gamba) und Halldór Bjarki Arnarson (ISL) (Cembalo)
01/2023 Michael Kleine* (D), visual artist, director and set designer; Roman Lemberg* (D) Performer, musician and music dramaturge, composer and arranger
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