Since March 2024, Mohamed Almusibli has been the new Director and Chief Curator of Kunsthalle Basel. Almusibli previously served as co-founder and curator of the independently operated art space Cherish in Geneva. His curatorial work is characterized by a sensitive engagement with contemporary artistic positions. He has demonstrated a close connection to artists of our time, an innovative perspective on the use of new technologies, and a keen interest in bridging the local and international art scenes.

François J. Bonnet is a Franco-Swiss composer and electroacoustic musician based in Paris. In addition to being the Director of INA GRM (Institut national de l’audiovisuel / Groupe de Recherches), François J. Bonnet is also the author of several books published by Urbanomic. He wrote the manifesto The Music to Come, published by Shelter Press in 2020, and the co-edited the SPECTRES series of publications, a joint project of INA GRM and Shelter Press.

As a musician, Bonnet often works under the project name Kassel Jaeger. He has collaborated with artists such as Oren Ambarchi, Giuseppe Ielasi, Stephan Mathieu, Stephen O’Malley, Jim O’Rourke, Akira Rabelais, James Rushford or Gisèle Vienne. While his own music has been played in renowned venues and festivals all over the world, François J. Bonnet has been working closely with groundbreaking composer and electronic music pioneer Eliane Radigue, and has been performing regularly her composition in concert.

Born in Geneva, Vanessa Cimorelli graduated from HEAD – Geneva in visual communications and from the University of Lausanne (UNIL) in literature, linguistics and social sciences. She then continued her studies with a Master CCC at HEAD. Currently curator at La Becque and member of the Extra.Collective, she is developing an approach that explores notions of corporality, storytelling and virtual spaces, at the crossroads of curatorial, political and artistic perspectives. Sensitive to experimental and collaborative formats, she designs exhibitions, events and encounters that encourage dialogue between disciplines.

At the same time, she conducts research that feeds her projects, exploring in particular the ways in which affects influence the reception of artworks and participate in the construction of collective narratives. To this end, she draws on critical approaches from cultural studies, feminist theory and critical thinking on technology. Through this dual theoretical and curatorial approach, she is interested in the conditions of emergence of works and the power structures that run through artistic and curatorial practices.

Jessica Ekomane is a French-born and Berlin-based electronic musician and sound artist. She creates situations where the sound acts as a transformative element for the space and the audience. Her quadraphonic performances, characterized by their physical affect, seek a cathartic effect through the interplay of psychoacoustics, the perception of rhythmic structures and the interchange of noise and melody. Her ever-changing and immersive sonic landscapes are grounded in questions such as the relationship between individual perception and collective dynamics or the investigation of listening expectations and their societal roots.

Her work has been extensively presented in festivals, venues, contemporary art spaces and museums across the world such as Radio France, CTM festival, Berghain, Cafe OTO, Hamburger Bahnhof, Reina Sofia, Art Basel, KW, Villa Massimo…

Stefanie Hessler is a curator, writer, editor, and the Director of Swiss Institute in New York. At Swiss Institute, Hessler has co-curated solo exhibitions by Ali Cherri, Lap-See Lam, and Raven Chacon, as well as initiated the curatorial project Spora, which invites artists to transform the institution through what she calls “environmental institutional critique.”

Previously, as the Director of Kunsthall Trondheim in Norway, Hessler co-led the exhibition Sex Ecologies and edited the accompanying compendium on queer ecologies, sexuality, and care in more-than-human worlds (with Seed Box and MIT Press, 2021).

Selected projects as an independent curator include the 17th MOMENTA Biennale, Sensing Nature, Montreal; Joan Jonas: Moving Off the Land II, Ocean Space, Venice; the symposium Practices of Attention, 33rd Bienal de São Paulo; the 6th Athens Biennale; and Tidalectics, TBA21–Augarten, Vienna. Hessler is the author of Prospecting Ocean (MIT Press, 2019), and has edited over a dozen volumes.

She is a founding committee member of the New York chapter of the Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC), and forms a part of the On Seeing editorial collective between The MIT Press and the Brown University Library.

Deborah-Joyce Holman is a multidisciplinary artist based between London and Basel. The practice of Deborah-Joyce Holman is concerned with the relationship between popular visual cultures and capital and the intertwined politics of representation. Holman contrasts the exploitative potential of how images collide with capital with approaches of artistic and cinematic subversion, repetition and refusal using differing approaches across media such as video, sculpture and painting.

Their work has recently been shown in many institutions around the world, including Kunsthalle Bern (2023, Oregon Contemporary, Portland (2023), Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2022), 7th Athens Biennial (2021), La Quadriennale di Roma (2020) and Auto Italia, London (2019), among others.

From 2020 to 2022, she worked at East London arts organisation Auto Italia first as Associate Director. They were the founding director of 1.1, a platform for early-career practitioners in arts, music and text-based practices, with an exhibition space in Basel, Switzerland, which ran from 2015 to 2020.

Deborah-Joyce has curated the 2018 and 2019 annual group exhibitions for the arts and music festival Les Urbaines in Lausanne, presenting newly commissioned works by over 15 international artists.

Tamara Jenny-Devrient has worked as a production manager for artistic projects in Switzerland and abroad for many years. She has collaborated with the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles on various projects, before taking on production duties for the Festival Images Vevey. Over the course of her career, she had developed a particular affinity for and experience in staging the production of monumental installations and events in public spaces.

She currently works as a freelancer and carries out various mandates for cultural institutions in French-speaking Switzerland. She is also vice-president of the Board of the Fondation Françoise Siegfried-Meier.

Nora Nahid Khan is a curator, editor, and author of critical texts on digital visual culture, software politics, and the philosophy of emerging technologies. She is the former executive director of the Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism in Los Angeles, which publishes the X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal. In 2020, she curated the exhibition Manual Override at the Shed in New York, working with artists Sondra Perry, Morehshin Allahyari, Simon Fujiwara, and Martine Syms.

She frequently publishes in journals such as Artforum and Art in America and has written essays commissioned for major exhibitions at the Serpentine Galleries, Chisenhale Gallery, and the Venice Biennale. Her practice extends to a wide range of artistic collaborations, including screenplays, librettos, and films.

The first former resident to join the jury of our Principal Residency Program, Nora N. Khan maintains several direct links with Switzerland, thanks in particular to the 2024 edition of the Biennale de l’image en Mouvement, organized at the Centre d’art contemporain de Genève, which she is curating with Andrea Bellini.

Leuenberger has over 25 years of experience in the visual arts bridging commercial and curatorial sectors. He is the founder and director of SALTS, a non-profit exhibition space in Birsfelden and Bennwil, Switzerland, which aims to promote interdisciplinary exchange and dialogue with emerging artists.

He is the curator of Art Basel’s Messeplatz Project and the Art in Public Space Project with Globus in collaboration with Fondation Beyeler. From 2016-2023 he was the curator of Art Basel’s Parcours sector. He has contributed widely to international exhibitions and programs including Centre Pasquart (2018), Bienne, Salon Suisse–Pro Helvetia, Venice (2017); Les Urbaines, Lausanne (2015); and 14 Rooms, Basel (2014).

Previous roles include arts advisor with Frahm Ltd in London; assistant curator at Kunsthalle Zurich; and Post-War & Contemporary Art Specialist at Christie’s Auctioneers in Zurich and Stephen Friedman Gallery in London. He was a committee member of Kunstkredit Basel (the nation’s oldest City Arts Council) from 2015-2020. He is currently an external Mentor at Institute Kunst Gender Nature (HGK) in Basel.

Born in Ticino (Switzerland), Boris Magrini studied art history at the University of Geneva and received his PhD from the University of Zurich.

Former head of Program and curator at HeK (House of Electronic Arts Basel) and current curator at LAS Art Foundation in Berlin, Boris Magrini has organized numerous exhibitions that promote transdisciplinary dialogues between artistic practices and sciences, and that address the economic, cultural and political implications of the development of artificial intelligence.

Among the exhibitions he has curated are Radical Gaming (HeK, Basel, 2021), Entangled Realities. Living with Artificial Intelligence (HeK, Basel, 2019), Future Love. Desire and Kinship in Hypernature (HeK, Basel, 2018), Hydra Project (Sonnenstube, Lugano, 2016) or Grounded Visions: Artistic Research into Environmental Issues (ETH, Zürich, 2015-2016). He has also published texts in various publications and his book Confronting the Machine: An Enquiry into the Subversive Drives of Computer-Generated Art (Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2017) offers an unconventional perspective on digital art and its relationship to technology and society.

Luc Meier studied international relations in Geneva. He then spent over ten years abroad, working on cultural projects in Japan and in the United States. From 2008 to 2012, he developed swissnex San Francisco’s and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia’s common art and technology program and directed it out of San Francisco.

Upon his return to Switzerland in 2013, he coordinated the curatorial development of ArtLab at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, and was its director of programs until June 2018. A programmatic and architectural initiative, ArtLab brings together art, science and technology in an exhibition infrastructure designed with architect Kengo Kuma. Since August 2018, Luc Meier is the director of La Becque | Artist Residency.