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Substances Projects Publications About the artists
The projects under the title Substances originate from Stefanie Knobel or from collaborations between Stefanie Knobel and Samrat Banerjee or Angela Wittwer. Substances will be home to further projects in changing constellations in the future.
Works by Stefanie Knobel
Scores for a Ganges River Dolphin and a Textile Worker #1–2 (2024 / 2025)
The Soaking Space (2022)
hereish and nowish (2017)
warp and weft (2017)
Interfacing the non- #1–3 (2018 / 2019)
A mani­festation for the quasi-public #1–5 (2018 / 2019)
TipTui – Performance Undercover (2019)

Works by Stefanie Knobel and Angela Wittwer
A heavy, heavy duty (2016 / 2023)

Works by Stefanie Knobel and Samrat Banerjee
Oh my silly, silly, silly mind! (Text, 2017)
Stefanie Knobel is an artist who works with the body, language, and spatial situations. Since 2016, her research has focused on cotton, global capitalism and (colonial) interdependencies between Switzerland and India, which she places in relation to current issues such as species extinction. This has resulted in numerous performances and installations, which she presents in international contexts. For example, the installation A heavy, heavy duty, 2016 (with Angela Wittwer), the live installation hereish and nowish and the installation warp and weft (both Helmhaus Zurich, 2017), the performance series A manifestation for the quasi public #1–5 (6. International Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Living Room at Art Basel, OnCurating Project Space, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Center for Contemporary Art Ancient Bath Plovdiv, 2018/2019), the installation Interfacing the non- (OnCurating Project Space Zurich, Digital Ecologies Plovdiv and Kunstkasten Winterthur, 2018/2019), the installation Tip Tui – Performance Undercover (Raum*station Zurich and Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, 2019) and The Soaking Space [der Einweichraum], which she opened at the Neuthal Museum in 2022. The Aargau Board of Trustees honored her performance video La molécule (in the screen) in 2019, her video L’OPOPONAXin 2022, and her current performance work Scores for a Ganges River Dolphin and a Textile Worker in 2024, which will be further developed in 2025 for the group exhibition “The Poverty Business. Art Is A Class Act!” In 2021, together with Samrat Banerjee, she founded The Institute for Plant, Animal and Human Migration, a participatory format that looks at migration from a symbiotic relationship with plants and animals. She is currently working with Russian and now Berlin-based curator Maria Sarycheva on re:cast, a 15-month co-creation project. Since 2013 she has been involved in various lecturing and jury activities at the Zurich University of the Arts, the F+F School of Art and Design, the Swiss Performance Art Award and others. She is currently preparing her site-specific solo exhibition for the Volkart Haus in Winterthur, which was the headquarters of the Volkart brothers from 1905 to 1928 and now belongs to the Volkart Foundation and houses the Coalmine – Raum für Fotografie.

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Angela Wittwer works in art, publishing, and graphic design. In her research-based and often site-specific artistic practice, she collaborates with artists and researchers, reflects on postcolonial entanglements, history(ies), and fluid subjectivities, and creates semi-fictional personas that blend historical fact with fabulation. In 2020, in collaboration with Rahmat Arham (Makassar, Indonesia), she developed Dan Dia Bilang Gitu , an audiovisual work that confronts the colonial involvement of two Swiss natural scientists with the anti-colonial resistance of Colliq Pujié, a Buginese intellectual. Dan Dia Bilang Gitu was shown at Theater Basel in 2020 and was part of the contemporary art festival Colomboscope in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2022, as well as laying out the sea to the thought, a printed contribution with Arham Rahman (Yogyakarta, Indonesia). In 2019–2025, as part of a transdisciplinary team with Izabel Barros, Fatima Moumouni, Esther Poppe, Vera Ryser, and Bernhard C. Schär (Bern/Zurich/Frankfurt), she facilitated the removal of a mural with colonial-racist depictions from an elementary school in Bern and its recontextualization in an ongoing exhibition at the Bernisches Historisches Museum (Das Wandbild muss weg!). Since 2022, together with Sandev Handy (Colombo), Aziz Sohail (Karachi/Melbourne) and Vera Ryser (Zurich), she has been part of the Studio for Memory Politics, a transdisciplinary collective of cultural practitioners engaging in long-term projects that foster a shared language to address and complicate global power dynamics and memory politics. Since 2011, she has co-edited and contributed to publications for Maria Eichhorn, Shedhalle Zurich, the Federal Office of Culture, Bernisches Historisches Museum and Zurich University of the Arts, among others. She lives and works in Jakarta and Zurich.

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