Artists in residence

VISUAL ARTS
PAINTING + SCULPTURE

Corinna Gosmaro’s work focuses on reflexions about human being as a global entity and his timeless characteristics. Her practice is based on the expression of a cognitive and psychophysical process activated through the interactions with her environment.

Pauline Gosselin is an interdisciplinary artist from Germany. She studied painting and graphic arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe and was a master student of Leni Hoffmann. Her practice combines installation, performance, video, photography and drawing. Her work explores surveillance, social systems, the body, desire, security, apocalypse and forms of control. Moving between reality, fiction and autobiographical material, she develops humorous and provocative visual worlds. She frequently works with large scale installations, physical performances and everyday materials. Her work examines how social structures, collective fears and personal experiences affect and shape the body.

VISUAL ARTS
SCULPTURE

The practice of Kevin Gotkovsky is about the production and conversation of sculptures, embodying the hypotheses of a central question: how to move the generic state of an object to a form of allegory? Looking to characterize the moments when an object is absorbed by an environment to become part of a landscape, Kevin Gotkovsky tries to reintroduce narrative potentialities within generic forms.

Hidden behind the three thick roots of the Aristotelian poetic genres’ family tree; the tragedy, comedy and the epic, one finds their often-forgotten sibling, the parody. Scarcely addressed by Aristotle himself, at least in the surviving literature, the French literary critic Gérard Genette sat out to reclaim the parody into the literary fold with his 1982 seminal work Palimpsests: La Littérature au second degré. Genette presupposes two modes of production that engenders parody, namely imitation and transformation, and it is the latter which seems to best describe the process behind Axel Gouala’s metamorphic sculptural objects.

Where Ulysses recalls the Odyssey, or plaster copies their marble originals, Axel Gouala humorously transforms materials much more familiar to the denizens of the 21st century: plungers playing palms, palms playing coatracks, a mop turned snake slithering away from its bucket.

It is precisely the intimacy with which we greet these familiar materials and made-to-be-held design objects that makes the viewing of Axel Gouala’s works an almost haptic affair.

– Extract, text by Gustav Elgin, Be Magazine 28, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.

Benjamin Goubet was born in 1995. He graduated from HEAD – Geneva in 2021, and lives and works between Paris and Geneva .
 

His film work explores the melancholy of cities, portraying nihilistic youths doomed to an inescapable fate. Within this melancholy vision of the contemporary, he infuses the imagination produced by his generation, bringing the poetic and the fantastic into suffocatingly realistic worlds. In this way, he achieves a rare blend of formalism and emotion. He works on waiting rather than action, using the time of inaction to capture presences.
 

His film Anabase (2021) has attracted attention at a number of international festivals, including Winterthur, Côté Court and San Sebastian IFF, where it won a special mention from the jury. 
He is currently developing a digital film project, SkyGirls, which won the Upcoming Lab prize at the Solothurn Film Festival.