Meet the Team

We are mostly a young team of Cultural Managers, Curators, Historians of Art and Media, Artists and Designers. You can contact us at info@videocity.org.

 
 

Head Curators and Directors

Dr Andrea Domesle, Director in Switzerland and Germany, Co-Director in Austria

Dr Walter Seidl, Co-Director in Austria

Polina Chizhova, MSc, and James Stephen Wright, MA, Curators and Co-Directors of Videocity UK

 

Research Associates

Theres Liechti in Winterthur

Fabienne Schoch in Basel

Karø Goldt in Berlin

Pavel Mendez in Cologne / Cuba

Project Coordinators

Alya Alawadhi, BA in Abu Dhabi

Aphroditi Bodenstedt in Düsseldorf

Chiara Giardi, MA in Indonesia / San Marino

Xavier Kat in Mexico

Raphaëlle Neidhart in Geneva

Pia Wamsler in Vienna

Vivi Zhu in Abu Dhabi / Tokyo

Gyo Yoon, MA in Seoul

Artist Liaison

Utopia Today – Aphroditi Bodenstedt in Düsseldorf

Simply Nature – Ronja Hensle in Essen

Project Manager NRW

Aphroditi Bodenstedt in Düsseldorf / Ratingen

 

Translators

Polina Chizhova, MSc in Edinburgh / Newcastle / Geneva

Olga Lezynska, MA in Düsseldorf

 

Editors

Ronja Hensle in Düsseldorf

 

Bookkeeper

Johannes J. Helbling in Basel

 

Photographers

Berthold Müller in Arlesheim

Dirk Wetzel in Basel

Louise Martig in Bern

Jürgen Völkl in St Pölten

 

Social Media Manager

Sabine Merkens, BA in Düsseldorf

 

PR

Polina Chizhova for International Projects

Dr Andrea Domesle for Switzerland

Olga Lezynska for Agenda Entries

Dr Walter Seidl for Austria

 

Technician

James Stephen Wright, MA in Newcastle

 

Design

 Giulianna Kyara Cuc in Vienna – team page illustrations

Thomas Dillier in Basel

Eylem Yildiz in Zurich

Interns

2024

Alizée Werthmüller

Geneva Young Curator Group

2023

Melody Brocard (Neuchâtel), Zahira Mozaffari (Zurich / Teheran), Jiwon Choi (Zurich / Seoul), Lisa Kleiner (Basel), Sofia Cerri (Fribourg), Véronique Bestenheider (Morges), Alizée Werthmüller (Fribourg/Geneva).

2022

Sophie Edmondson (Manchester), Gernot Grofics (Vienna), Joe Lang (Manchester), Lynn Murphy (Manchester), Georgie Parker (Manchester), Eylem Yildiz (Zurich), Vivi Zhu (Abu Dhabi).

2021

Linda Christa Bill, BA (Bern), Aphroditi-Marie Bodenstedt (Düsseldorf), Allen Campos (St. Pölten / Vienna), Rahel Christen, BA (Basel and Lucerne), Anne Cuzon (Paris), Johannes J. Helbling (Basel), Alexie Kahn (Vienna), Xavier Kat (Tehuantepec, Mexico), Giulianna Kyara Cuc (Vienna), Dilda Kulmagambetova, (Saint-Denis / Almaty), Olga Maria Lezynska, BA (Düsseldorf / Münster), Sabine Merkens, BA (Düsseldorf), Fabio Merstallinger (Vienna), Raphaëlle Neidhart (Geneva / Neuchâtel), Lucie Pavy (Lyon / Toulouse / South Africa), Lia Quirina (St. Pölten), Margot Raffy, BA (Lyon / Saint-Denis), Fabienne Schoch (Basel), Giorgia Spina, BA (Aesch near Basel), Viola Victoria Voldrich (Vienna), Daria Wechsler (Lucerne), Eylem Yildiz (Zurich), Alessandro Zarola (Basel).

2020

Alya Alawadhi (Abu Dhabi), Hortense Albisson, BA (Lyon / Paris / Trentino), Seyma Bayrak, BA (Krefeld), Polina Chizhova, MSc (Edinburgh), Anne Cuzon, BA (Paris), Chiara Düblin, BA (Basel), Chiara Giardi, BA (San Marino / Zurich), Simone Guardi, BA (Ticino), Roberta Guzzetti, PhD (Würzburg, Saronno), Regina Heinzelmann, BA (Frankfurt), Inna Humeniuk, BA (Stuttgart), Meng Meng Li, BA (Chicago), Aline Lusser, BA (Allschwil near Basel), Miriam Pinoccio, MA (Rome / Palermo), Leoni Bianka Reiber (Bochum), Laura Rehme, MA (Hamburg), Lia Quirina (St. Pölten / Vienna), Michelle Sacher, BA (Olten), Valentina Sankolli-Peduzzi, MA (Bern / Ticino), Fabienne Schoch (Basel / Lucerne), Dina Spielmann (St. Petersburg / Potsdam), Lea Sigmund, BA (Lörrach), Ning Zhou (Shanghai).

Guest Curators

 

Yana Bachynska, Lviv

Jana P. Francová and Karin Písaříková, Brno

Maksym Khodak and Maria Noschenko, Kiev

Stanislav Kholodnykh, Kiev

Dr. Toni Stooss, Bern

Dr. Robert Sorg, Bern

Collaborations

 

Copa & Sordes, artist duo, Basel

Frank Eckhardt, curator, Dresden

ETAGE, artist duo, Stuttgart

Sibylle Feucht, curator, Bonn

Todd Forsgren, MA, Montana, USA

Pascal Lampert, Sta. Maria Val Müstair  

Chantal Molleur (White Frame), Basel

Mag. Ursula Maria Probst, Vienna

Dr Christoph Schneider, curator, Freiburg in Breisgau

Dr Nicoletta Torcelli, curator, Freiburg in Breisgau

Anmari Wili, Basel/Rotterdam

Zeus B. Held, musician, Freiburg in Breisgau

Former collaborations

 

Eleonor Beale, London

GEDOK Stuttgart

Igor Grubic, artist and film producer, Zagreb

Elisabeth Höller, Christina Böckler and Luise Hoyer, curators trio, Duisburg

Sophie Kauffenstein, curator Strasbourg