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Release day for former Australian residents Judith Hamann (.hamann) and James Rushford (.p.rushford), whose new album ‘M...
02/06/2026

Release day for former Australian residents Judith Hamann (.hamann) and James Rushford (.p.rushford), whose new album ‘Midmeste’ is out today as a new Black Truffle release developed in collaboration with La Becque Editions.

Developed during residencies at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart () and La Becque in 2023, ‘Midmeste’ is the duo’s first collaborative release. Performed on cello and a variety of pipe organs, the album unfolds as a spacious and sometimes unsettling exploration of alternative tunings, psychoacoustic phenomena, and the physical properties of their instruments.

The work also integrates recordings made during Biennale Son () on the organ of the Basilica of Valère in Sion, Switzerland — the world’s oldest playable organ, built in the early 15th century. Amplified creaks, bellows, breaths, and resonances become part of the composition itself, grounding the music in the bodies of the performers and the specific site of its making.

Across its forty-minute span, ‘Midmeste’ moves through fragile harmonics, drifting melodies, dense resonances, and near-silent passages, weaving together rigorous sonic exploration with an unapologetic embrace of beauty.

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1-3: Judith Hamann & James Rushford, ‘Midmeste’, Biennale Son, Sion, 2023, photo Laura Morier-Genoud ()
4: Judith Hamann & James Rushford, ‘Midmeste’, Black Truffle & La Becque Editions, 2026

Last week, we welcomed Brussels-based curator, editor, and writer Yann Chateigné Tytelman () to La Becque for a short re...
26/05/2026

Last week, we welcomed Brussels-based curator, editor, and writer Yann Chateigné Tytelman () to La Becque for a short residency, where he developed a novel-in-progress exploring the concept of night. We look forward to sharing more about this project soon.

Yann Chateigné Tytelman’s practice unfolds across exhibitions, publishing, sound, and research, often exploring listening, memory, collective narratives, and the porous boundaries between artistic disciplines.

In 2023, he co-founded Celador (.space), a co-operative space in Brussels “for doing things with words.” Since 2021, he has been guest curator of Country SALTS near Basel () and serves as a PhD supervisor at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (). He is a faculty member of KASK’s Curatorial Studies in Ghent (). His projects include exhibitions and collaborations with institutions such as KANAL–Centre Pompidou in Brussels (.centrepompidou), the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal (), Bergen Kunsthall (), CAPC in Bordeaux () and MACBA in Barcelona ().

Alongside his curatorial work, Yann Chateigné Tytelman develops a strong editorial and writing practice, engaging with forms of storytelling, archives, and speculative modes of exhibition-making.

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Yann Chateigné Tytelman, La Becque, 2026, photo Aurélien Haslebacher

This Wednesday, we were delighted to host the launch of Volume 6 of the ‘On Words’ collection at La Becque, during an ev...
22/05/2026

This Wednesday, we were delighted to host the launch of Volume 6 of the ‘On Words’ collection at La Becque, during an evening organized in collaboration with SIK-ISEA (.ch).

Bringing together Swiss artist Mai-Thu Perret (), French artist Isabelle Cornaro (), Swiss artist and filmmaker Pauline Julier (), and French-Moroccan artist Latifa Echakhch (.echa), the conversation explored artists’ speech, writing, and different ways of documenting artistic practices.

The evening also included a presentation of the publication by Sarah Burkhalter (.b.carroll), a roundtable moderated by Julie Enckell (), with contributions from Vanessa Cimorelli (), and a welcome by Luc Meier ().

‘On Words’ is a series of interviews with contemporary women artists co-published by SIK-ISEA and Scheidegger & Spiess ().

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‘On Words’ with Mai-Thu Perret, Isabelle Cornaro, Pauline Julier and Latifa Echakhch, La Becque, 2026, photo Aurélien Haslebacher

(🕸️𝑻𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒉🕸️)Tender Mesh welcomes Andrea Carrillo (), a Mexican artist and researcher whose practice operates at the...
21/05/2026

(🕸️𝑻𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒉🕸️)
Tender Mesh welcomes Andrea Carrillo (), a Mexican artist and researcher whose practice operates at the intersection of moving image, installation, performance, and prose. Through humor, desire, archival materials, and fiction, her work develops counter-narratives that destabilize the ideological and power systems underpinning Western imaginaries, blurring the boundaries between chronicle and speculative fiction.

Her work has been presented at Museo Jumex () and Centro de la Imagen () in Mexico City, Espacio Odeón in Bogota (), and Tenerife Espacio de las Artes in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (), among others, and has been supported by the Magnum Foundation in New York (), FONCA, and the Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo () in Mexico City.

Andrea will join the fellowship for a research residency at La Becque in Switzerland () before the project moves to its final phase at Espacio Odeón in Bogota ().

(🕸️𝑻𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒉🕸️) is supported and sponsored by Pro Helvetia () through the Synergies grant program.

Credits
1: Andrea Carrillo, design Catalina Moreno
2: Andrea Carrillo, ‘Plano afectivo’, 2018
3: Andrea Carrillo, ‘Flickering Trophies I’, 2025
4: Andrea Carrillo, ‘Safety Blue’, 2024, in collaboration with Melissa Herrada
5: Andrea Carrillo, ‘Los colores del viento’, Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo (), Mexico City, 2021

(🕸️𝑻𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒉🕸️)Tender Mesh welcomes alfatih (), a Swiss artist whose work investigates the logic and quiet failures of...
19/05/2026

(🕸️𝑻𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒉🕸️)
Tender Mesh welcomes alfatih (), a Swiss artist whose work investigates the logic and quiet failures of everyday systems through interactive installations, video, and time-based technologies. Probing routines, behavioral patterns, and the desire for visibility, alfatih builds situations where audiences become unwitting participants in the very structures being examined.

alfatih’s practice has been presented at Kunsthaus Langenthal (), Swiss Institute in New York (), MASI Lugano (), Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg (), Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva (), and Haus der Elektronischen Künste in Basel (), among others.

alfatih will join the fellowship for a research residency at La Becque in La Tour-de-Peilz () before the project moves to its final phase at Espacio Odeón in Bogota ().

(🕸️𝑻𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒉🕸️) is supported and sponsored by Pro Helvetia () through the Synergies grant program.

Credits
1: alfatih, self portrait, design Catalina Moreno
2: alfatih, ‘The Secret to Tax Evasion, and Other Life Wisdoms’, Kunsthaus Langenthal, 2026, photo Cedric Mussano
3: alfatih, ‘The Switch’, CIRCUIT Centre d’Art Contemporain Lausanne (.lausanne), 2025, photo Aude Mayer
4: alfatih, ‘Music for Horses on the G String’, La Becque, 2025, photo Aurélien Haslebacher
5: alfatih, ‘switzerland’, 2024, courtesy of the artist

(🕸️𝑻𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒉🕸️) is hosted by three organizations whose situated practices form the web that sustains this fellowship. ...
18/05/2026

(🕸️𝑻𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒉🕸️) is hosted by three organizations whose situated practices form the web that sustains this fellowship.

is a non-profit platform dedicated to fostering experimental and interdisciplinary artistic practices. Since 2011, Odeón has collaborated with artists in the co-production of site-specific projects that engage critically with contemporary cultural, political, and social contexts. Through exhibitions, curatorial projects, and communal practices including workshops, cooking sessions, study groups, and other gatherings, Odeón serves as a catalyst for collective participation and critical inquiry, centering non-hierarchical curatorial models and collaborative exercises in autonomous world-building. The platform is directed by Tatiana Rais ().

is an artist residency located on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, dedicated to fostering focused, experimental work at the intersection of nature, environment, and technology. Residents benefit from an exceptional site and infrastructure, whether their project is focused on in-depth research or on production. La Becque dedicates particular attention to projects exploring the ever more intertwined notions of nature, the environment, and technology, themes that feed into all disciplines of the arts and that artists are among those best equipped to address. 𝑻𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒉 is supported by Vanessa Cimorelli (), curator at La Becque.
buzon (Daniela Gutiérrez-González + Sebastián Mira .y2k) is a curatorial duo whose practice explores post-digital culture and the evolving definitions of shared temporality, hapticality, and screen-based experience. Through a hybrid, embodied, and affective curatorial approach, their work generates autonomous spaces of self-governance and (ex)intimacy, interrogating how bodies and technologies co-produce new forms of relationality in contemporary digital landscapes.

(🕸️𝑻𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒆𝒔𝒉🕸️) is supported and sponsored by through the Synergies grant program.

Today, we introduce Alice Bucknell (), who is in residence at La Becque through July as part of our Principal Residency ...
13/05/2026

Today, we introduce Alice Bucknell (), who is in residence at La Becque through July as part of our Principal Residency Program.

Alice Bucknell is a North American artist and writer based in Los Angeles whose work uses game engines and speculative fiction to explore video games as tools for engaging with complex systems, relationships, and knowledge structures. Their practice addresses the limits of scientific thinking, the imaginative potential of play, and ecological perspectives challenging binaries such as human versus environment. Bucknell is the founder of New Mystics (.xyz), a platform that investigates the intersections of magic and technology and organized ‘New Worlds’ at Somerset House Studios ().

Their work has been presented internationally at venues including Copenhagen Contemporary (), the Venice Architecture Biennale (), and the Centre Pompidou in Paris (). Their writing appears regularly in ArtReview (), frieze (), and e-flux architecture (e_flux). They currently teach at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles ().

Credits
1: Alice Bucknell, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, Paris, 2025, courtesy Chanel, photo Matthew Avignone, image courtesy the artist
2: Alice Bucknell, ‘Small Void’, developed through the Collide residency program between Arts at CERN and Copenhagen Contemporary, 2025, image courtesy the artist
3: Alice Bucknell, ‘Nightcrawlers’, commissioned by the Centre Pompidou, 2025, image courtesy the artist
4-5: Alice Bucknell, ‘Staring at the Sun’, commissioned and coproduced by the EPFL CDH AiR program 2024, ‘Enter the Hyper-Scientific’, 2024-25, image courtesy the artist
6: Alice Bucknell, ‘The Alluvials’, 2023, image courtesy the artist

(Updated post) On May 20, we look forward to welcoming Swiss artist Mai-Thu Perret (), French artist Isabelle Cornaro ()...
12/05/2026

(Updated post) On May 20, we look forward to welcoming Swiss artist Mai-Thu Perret (), French artist Isabelle Cornaro (), Swiss artist and filmmaker Pauline Julier (), and French-Moroccan artist Latifa Echakhch (.echa), to La Becque for an event organized in collaboration with SIK-ISEA (.ch) around the launch of Volume 6 of the ‘On Words’ collection.

Initiated from a shared interest in writing and storytelling, ‘On Words’ is a series of interviews with contemporary women artists co-published by SIK-ISEA and Scheidegger & Spiess (). On the occasion of this new volume, the four artists will gather for a conversation on artists’ speech and the ways of documenting it – a topic that also resonates with the practices and research currently unfolding at La Becque.

The evening will include a welcome by Luc Meier (Director of La Becque, ), a presentation of the publication by Sarah Burkhalter (Head of the French-speaking office of SIK-ISEA, .b.carroll), and a roundtable discussion with Mai-Thu Perret, Isabelle Cornaro, Pauline Julier and Latifa Echakhch, moderated by Julie Enckell (art historian and co-director of the ‘On Words’ collection, ), with contributions from Vanessa Cimorelli (curator at La Becque, ), followed by an apéritif.

Free admission upon registration via [email protected].

Credits
1: Mai-Thu Perret, photo Annik Wetter
2: Isabelle Cornaro, photo Annik Wetter
3: Pauline Julier, photo Nikita Thévoz
4: Latifa Echakhch, photo Sébastien Agnetti

Today, meet French industrial designer Christopher Santerre (), who will be in residence at La Becque throughout the mon...
11/05/2026

Today, meet French industrial designer Christopher Santerre (), who will be in residence at La Becque throughout the month of May as part of our partnership with Plateforme 10 ().

Based in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques region, Christopher Santerre graduated from ENSCI – Les Ateliers in Paris (). His practice combines desirability, sustainability, and local craftsmanship, with particular attention to the environmental impact of objects.

In 2016, he co-founded L’Increvable, a company developing a durable, repairable, and upgradeable washing machine, a project selected for the Rising Talents Awards at Maison & Objet () in 2017. In 2019, he launched his own design studio, specialising in the development of low environmental impact products. His projects include the ‘Moonbikes’ electric snowmobile, the ‘Rivoli’ electric bicycle for Voltaire (.cycles), ‘Reus’eat’ biodegradable cutlery, and the ‘Karbikes’ intermediate vehicle. In 2025, he was a finalist for the Agora Grant for Design with the research project ‘Set & Setting’.

Credits
1: Christopher Santerre, courtesy of the artist
2: Christopher Santerre, ‘Moonbikes, 2019, photo Jour Blanc Studio / Moonbikes
3: Christopher Santerre, ‘Terminal, 2020, photo Christopher Santerre
4: Christopher Santerre, ‘Joe’, 2025, photo Christopher Santerre
5: Christopher Santerre, ‘Karbikes’, 2024, photo Christopher Santerre
6: Christopher Santerre, ‘Reus’eat’, 2022, photo Christopher Santerre
7: Christopher Santerre, ‘Capic’, 2025, photo Christopher Santerre
8: Christopher Santerre, ‘Voltaire’, 2024, photo Voltaire Cycles
9: Christopher Santerre, ‘Élévation’, 2024, photo Christopher Santerre
10: Christopher Santerre, ‘Zeste’, 2019, photo Zeste
11: Christopher Santerre, ‘L’Increvable’, 2017, photo Mario Simon Lafleur

Congrats to former resident Jenna Sutela () for her installation ‘Aeolian Suite’, presented at the Pavilion of Finland d...
06/05/2026

Congrats to former resident Jenna Sutela () for her installation ‘Aeolian Suite’, presented at the Pavilion of Finland during the 61st Biennale di Venezia ().

Commissioned by Frame Contemporary Art Finland () and curated by Stefanie Hessler (), Director of Swiss Institute in New York and member of the jury of La Becque’s Principal Residency Program, ‘Aeolian Suite’ transforms the Pavilion of Finland into an immersive soundscape shaped by the elemental forces of the wind.

The exhibition features five sonic-kinetic sculptures arranged in a circle, each embodying a different Venetian wind. Combining sound, movement, scenography, and environmental research, the installation explores the cultural, emotional, and ecological dimensions of wind, while reflecting on unpredictability, climate instability, and the limits of control.

The presentation coincides with the Pavilion of Finland’s 70th anniversary in 2026 and will be accompanied by a publication edited by Stefanie Hessler, featuring newly commissioned texts by Hessler, Jenna Sutela, and former residents Elvia Wilk () and Gary Zhexi Zhang ().

‘Aeolian Suite’ is on view at the 61st Biennale di Venezia from May 9 to November 22, 2026.

Credits
1, 3: Jenna Sutela, ‘Aeolian Suite’, Finnish Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia, 2026, photo Clelia Cadamuro
2, 4, 5: Jenna Sutela, ‘Aeolian Suite’, Finnish Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia, 2026, photo Ugo-Carmeni

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