Stephan Zimmerli (FR, 1976)

Residency period: May 2025

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Based in Paris, Stephan Zimmerli is an artist, architect, scenographer, and musician. For the past twenty-five years, his transdisciplinary practice has taken shape at the crossroads of architecture, theater, and music, with visual art as its central discipline. At the heart of these overlapping fields, drawing has developed into a daily practice and the foundation of a personal art of memory — a mnemotopy orbiting around recurring themes such as time, reminiscence, atmosphere, and mental space.

A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-Belleville, Zimmerli completed his diploma project at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio (Switzerland), in Peter Zumthor’s studio. His practice now crystallizes around the design of narrative and sonic architectures — mental spaces and studioli — brought to life through drawing performances, placing the thinking hand at the core of a reflection on exile, resilience, and the reconstruction of memory.

For this residency, the spaces are made available to mudac by La Becque with the support of Nestlé.

Stephan Zimmerli, photo Sarah-Laure Estragnat