Works by Stefanie Knobel
Untitled (2025)
seeping in (2025)
The House (2025)
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
A Cotton Conversation (2025)
Oh my silly, silly, silly mind! (Text, 2017)

Samrat Banerjee is an Indian-born artist and dramaturge based in Zurich, Switzerland. Master of Fine Arts of Zurich University of the Arts. His research-based practice encompasses creative writing, poetry and video. He is interested in a critique of anthropocentric values that shape and define our relationships by engaging with questions about humanity’s shared relation to materiality. In 2021, he founded together with Stefanie Knobel at Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, The Institute for Plant, Animal and Human Migration. Recently he has been a Pro Helvetia resident at Palazzo Trevisan in Venice. His latest video-essay, Mangrove Futures has been shown at 2023 at Cinema Gallegiante in Venice.

Stefanie Knobel (lives and works in Zurich) is an artist working with body, poetry, and spatial situations. Her practice engages choreography, installation, and archives, focusing on precise gestures and movements that emerge from long-term research processes.

She studied Applied Theatre Studies at Justus Liebig University Giessen and completed her Master’s degree with a focus on choreography and performance in 2012. She also holds a BA in Dance Studies as well as German Language and Art History, and has pursued further training in archival studies.

Since 2016, her work has centered on cotton, textile production, and transoceanic connections, examining the (colonial) interdependencies between Switzerland and India. She situates this research within broader ecological and socio-political contexts, including questions of species extinction and more-than-human actors. Her work has been presented internationally at institutions such as FRAC Lorraine, Künstlerhaus Bremen, among others. From 2020 to 2023, she developed a series of collaborative works with Samrat Banerjee at Gessnerallee Zurich and Shedhalle Zurich. Recent projects include the solo exhibition On Surfaces and Structures (2025) at Coalmine, Winterthur, which features the spatial intervention Untitled, the performance video seeping in, the performance The House, and the printed conversation A Cotton Conversation (with Samrat Banerjee). A video work based on the site-specific performance The House is currently in development.

Within her ongoing performance practice, she continues to develop the series Scores #. Scores for a Ganges River Dolphin and a Textile Worker #1 and #2 were presented at Helmhaus Zurich in 2025 and at Aargauer Kunsthaus in 2024. Alongside her artistic practice, Knobel has been active in teaching and as a jury member since 2013, including at Zurich University of the Arts and the F+F School of Art and Design. She has also served on juries such as the Swiss Performance Art Award (2021–2024).

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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 a one-year 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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