Valérie Niederoest (they/them) and Valerie Reding

Photo: Valérie Niederoest

Cultural manager, program designer for dance and music, musician (Meril Wubslin / Echappées.ch). Valérie was responsible for the programming of the Club Le Romandie in Lausanne, for the administration of the Compagnie Philippe Saire, and until May 2023 she was co-director of the Sévelin 36 theatre. She is familiar with the networks of contemporary dance organisers in Switzerland and Europe. Inspired by queer and ecofeminist approaches, Valérie is an advocate of a collaborative and listening-based approach to labour and social relations.

Photo: Valerie Reding

Valerie Reding lives and works in Zurich as a transdisciplinary artist. After training in ballet and modern dance in Luxembourg, she studied architecture and media art in Zurich, Vienna and San Francisco, worked internationally as a make-up artist and created her drag alter-ego VulVenim - a seductive shapeshifter. Today, she combines all these experiences in her eclectic artistic practice, which combines movement, performance, photography, video, text, installation and curatorial practice. Valerie is also the creative director of WET DREAMZ - a queer-feminist community event with various artistic interventions celebrating all bodies and identities. Fascinated by the complex entanglements of the body, human psychology, interpersonal relationships and the systems of power that permeate our societies and identities, Valerie explores the potential of vulnerability, autofiction, transformation and camp to work with an intersectional approach to questions around subjectivity and relationality.