Margaux Schwab
Artist in residence, Umeå, 1 April – 30 June 2024
Margaux Schwab, born 1989 in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland, lives and works between Berlin, Germany, and Vevey, Switzerland. She is a cultural producer and curator working at the intersection of art, ecology and hospitality, prioritizing spaces outside the gallery walls. In 2016, she founded foodculture days, a knowledge-sharing platform around food ecologies and politics in Vevey. foodculture days serves as a catalyst for discussions and actions through environmental and social claims, employing a biennale format that hosts a multitude of creative and culinary interventions as well as field-research phases on the territory. foodculture days also lauched in Septembre 2023 an editorial project called Boca A Boca.
Margaux Schwab
For the IASPIS residence, the Swiss-Mexican curator will focuse her research on notions of hospitality, conviviality, and access to the arts where food is considered as a nutritive, conceptual and discursive material. Valorizing kitchens, marketplaces, fields and other public spaces as potent spaces for transmission of knowledge and know-how, Schwab will be interested in how art can re-connect us with these territories in a sensible way.
After graduating with a degree in Hospitality Science from the Hotel School in Lausanne, Switzerland, she moved to Berlin in 2015 where she started working in the cultural field. In 2016, she founded foodculture days, a knowledge-sharing platform around food ecologies and politics in Vevey. In 2023, she started a CAS (Certificat of Advance Studies) in Cultural Politics and Practices at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She is one of the curators of the three years Art & Science research project “Fungi Cosmology” supported by Pro Helvetia. Fungi Cosmology is an international transdisciplinary research-based project with artists, scientists and curators from Brazil, Chile, and Switzerland.