Pauline Boudry and Giuliana Beya Dridi

Foto: Bernadette Paassen

Pauline Boudry works with installations that choreograph the tension between visibility and opacity. Her films (produced in an artists’ duo with Renate Lorenz) capture performances in front of the camera, often starting with a song, a picture, a film or a score from the near past. They upset normative historical narratives and conventions of spectatorship, as figures and actions across time are staged, layered and re-imagined. Their performers are choreographers, artists and musicians, with whom they are having a long-term conversation about the conditions of performance, the violent history of visibility, the pathologization of bodies, but also about companionship, glamour and resistance. Their work has been recently shown at MUAC Mexico, 35th São Paulo Art Biennal, Crystal Palace/Reina Sofia Museum Madrid, Centre Pompidou Paris, Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Whitechapel Gallery London, New Museum New York, Julia Stoschek Collection Berlin or the 58th Biennale di Venezia (Swiss Pavillon). Pauline Boudry has been teaching art practice at the Weissensee Kunsthochschule in Berlin, ZHDK Zürich and is currently teaching at HEAD Geneva. www.boudry-lorenz.de

Foto: Vivi Stucki

Giuliana Beya Dridi (*1997 in Bern) explores topics such as migration, border politics, and belonging in her artistic practice. She studied Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and at the Haute école d’art et de design Genève (HEAD), where she graduated with distinction. In 2023, she was awarded the ZHdK Förderpreis. Her artistic work has been exhibited at venues including Kunsthalle Bern. In addition to her artistic practice, she pursues curatorial projects and organized the evening event series accompanying the exhibition “Widerstände. Vom Umgang mit Rassismus in Bern” ("Resistance. Dealing with Racism in Bern") at the Bern Historical Museum. In 2025, she received the studio grant from the Binz39 Foundation.