Works by Stefanie Knobel
Untitled (2025)
seeping in (2025)
The House (2025)
Scores for Classed Bodies #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, Switzerland. Her artistic practice combines embodied research, spatial installation, choreography, and (performance) video. Her work investigates local histories and colonial transoceanic entanglements between Switzerland and the Indian subcontinent that continue to be carried through bodies, landscapes, and materials. Drawing on archives, cultures of remembrance, and questions of reparation, she approaches these histories through her own body and through the specific spatial situations in which they unfold. Knobel studied Applied Theatre Studies as well as Choreography and Performance at Justus Liebig University Giessen, where she completed her MA in 2012. She previously earned a BA in Dance Studies, German Literature, and Art History from the University of Bern. In 2025, she completed further professional training in archival studies. Her work has been presented internationally at venues including FRAC Lorraine, Gessnerallee Zurich, Künstlerhaus Bremen, and Kunsthaus Aargau. Upcoming presentations in 2026/27 include the Bengal Biennale. Recent projects include the solo exhibition On Surfaces and Structures (Coalmine – Raum für Fotografie, 2025), which will be further developed through an extensive artist publication project, her co-creation project re:cast, her ongoing collaboration with Samrat Banerjee (A Cotton Conversation, The Institute for Plant, Animal and Human Migration) and the ongoing performance series Scores for Classed Bodies (2024–). Knobel has received numerous grants and awards for her artistic work, including support from the Aargauer Kuratorium, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, and the City of Zurich. Alongside her artistic practice, she heads the Remembrance Culture for the City of Wetzikon. She has also taught and served as a jury member at institutions including Zurich University of the Arts and F+F School of Art and Design. From 2021 to 2024, she served on the jury of the Swiss Performance Art Award.

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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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