Marlene Marti Bürgi and Ramon Iten
Photo: Pati Grabowicz
Marlene Marti Bürgi (b. 1990 in Basel) lives and works in Lausanne. In 2016, she completed a master's degree in museology and collection history at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She works as a curator and art historian on various projects, runs the Bad Posture off-space in Lausanne and regularly writes texts on current exhibitions and artists. In 2023, Marlene Bürgi received a grant from the Gebert Foundation for Culture. As part of this, she is realizing four exhibitions under the title ‘We the Parasites: A Playbook for Complicity’ at the Alte Fabrik and the Kunst(Zeug)Haus in Rapperswil.
Photo: Regula Bearth
Ramon Iten, born 1995 in Zurich, completed his bachelor in fine arts at the Zurich University of the Arts in 2024. In his artistic practice, he deals with topics such as productivity, work and the perception and valuation of time. He often devotes himself to time-consuming tasks that bear fruit beyond traditional measures of productivity. He wants to challenge the idea that the value of our existence is determined by our achievements. In addition to his own artistic work, he is involved in the organization and curation of exhibitions at the off-space The Function and the art association Papillarya, and works as a carpenter/art handler. He stores snowballs from past winters in his freezer.
Project
A central component of the coaching is the to-do list archiving project. The notes collected by Ramon Iten are understood not only as tools of everyday life but also as expressions of individual and societal self-organization. The seemingly mundane lists become testimonies of intention, procrastination, failure, and progress, thus turning into documents of both an artistic and existential engagement with one's own actions. Ramon Iten and Marlene Marti Bürgi rely on an open-ended dialogue. Through regular conversations over the course of the year, they reflect on time, priorities, and the tension between creative freedom and administrative constraints. The mentoring is understood less as guidance and more as a resonance space for questions that are allowed to unfold without seeking quick answers.