La Becque / Artist Residency announces the laureates of its Principal Residency Program for 2026 and for the first trimester of 2027.
Chosen from over 1,200 applications, seventeen new residency projects will take shape at La Becque in 2026 and into 2027 as part of its Principal Residency Program. The selected visual artists, writers, performers, composers, and sound artists convinced the jury with proposals offering original perspectives on the themes central to La Becque’s programs: the interplay between nature, the environment, and technology, as seen through the lens of artistic practice.
La Becque looks forward to welcoming the following residents in 2026 and early 2027: Nursalim Yadi Anugerah (Indonesia), bela (South Korea), Alice Bucknell (United States) & Sahej Rahal (India), Mélanie Courtinat (France), Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung (Australia/Hong Kong/Germany), Puer Deorum (United Kingdom), Embaci (United States), Shuang Li (China), Yen Chun Lin (Taiwan) & Gediminas Žygus (Lithuania), Mira Mann (Germany), Drew McDowall (United Kingdom), Elif Satanaya Özbay (Netherlands), Zoé Samudzi (United States), Stas Shärifullá (Russia), Ashkan Sepahvand (Germany/United States/Iran), Dania Shihab (Australia) and Jan Vorisek (Switzerland).
The 2026/27 jury brought together a transdisciplinary group of curators, artists, and cultural practitioners: Mohamed Almusibli (director, Kunsthalle Basel), François J. Bonnet (composer and director, INA GRM Paris), Jessica Ekomane (musician and sound artist, Berlin), Stefanie Hessler (curator, writer, and director, Swiss Institute New York), Deborah-Joyce Holman (artist and curator, London), Nora Nahid Khan (curator, editor, and author, Los Angeles), Samuel Leuenberger (director, SALTS Exhibition Space Basel), Boris Magrini (senior curator, LAS Art Foundation Berlin), Fondation Françoise Siegfried-Meier trustee Tamara Jenny-Devrient, La Becque curator Vanessa Cimorelli and La Becque director Luc Meier.
La Becque’s Principal Residency Program emphasizes time for reflection and research rather than production. Deeply convinced of the importance of such phases in the artistic process, La Becque is committed to supporting inquiry, experimentation, and other transitional modes of artistic work, rather than prioritizing finished outcomes.
More information about each of these artists and collectives—and a first glimpse of the projects they will be working on—can be found on La Becque’s website. In 2026, the Principal Residents will be joined by artists participating in La Becque’s ongoing partnership residency programs with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, Images Vevey, and Plateforme 10 (mudac, Photo Elysée, and MCBA). Additional partnerships and guests will be announced later.
La Becque’s next call for applications, for residencies to be held between May 2027 and March 2028, will open in March 2026.