About
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an· other here is a nomadic residency program that supports practitioners in the performing and visual arts. By facilitating local mentorship at both the production and curatorial levels, the residency enables participants to build thorough connections with the territory where it takes place.
The format of each edition will be based on the partnerships we establish. Still, our primary focus will always be the same: ensuring the work and living environment is tailored to the practitioners we host.
Within that framework, the public events at the residency foster a connection between the artistic projects and local spaces. Each of these moments is crucial to creating democratic, open environments that enable the public to engage with, reflect on, and discuss the projects with current art practitioners.
Extending this approach, an· other here supports artistic initiatives in temporary spaces while fostering a lasting community that continues to evolve year after year.
Edition IV
· Residency ·
This fourth edition is a collaboration between an· other here (France, Germany), KOMMET art center (France), Institut für Alles Mögliche (Germany), and Polynome collective (France, Germany).
From October to November 2024 four artists are hosted for a research and working period, in a dual geography. The Berlin-based artist Gisèle Gonon will reside in a rural house in Auvergne Rhône-Alpes (Montbrun-les-Bains, France), while the Lyon-based artists Julie Escoffier and Pierre Boggio will reside in the Institut für Alles Mögliche studios (Berlin, Germany).
Each residency team is committed to supporting research and creative production in their respective territories. Over the course of two months, these artistic practices dedicated to rural and urban resilience will unfold, resonating with the elusive, the invisible, the inaudible, the obvious, and perhaps the deviant.
In partnership with
In collaboration with
As part of Résonance program of the 17th Lyon Biennale 2024
Sponsored by
· Exhibition ·
For their second collaboration, an· other here nomadic residency and KOMMET art center present the collective show “le geste du commun” in Lyon. Following a cross-residency between France and Germany, artists Pierre Boggio, Julie Escoffier and Gisèle Gonon unveil the results of their research carried out in Berlin and in the Drôme village of Montbrun-les-Bains.
Through installation, sound, ceramics and graphic design, the three artists explored acts of resistance, reparation and social and ecological reinvention. Through engaging and participatory practices, this exhibition invited us to rethink the ways in which we build community, valuing interactions, transmissions and sensitive experiences.
· Workshops & Public Program ·
In November 2025, a series of workshops and gatherings will be held in Berlin, bringing together art practitioners, researchers, and audiences around the project’s themes. Through participatory practices, die geste des gemeinsamen (le geste du commun) proposes to us the rethinking of the dynamics of collaboration and possible forms of social transformation. By combining urban and rural contexts, the project questions the ways in which art can contribute to shaping spaces for dialogue, resistance, and collective reinvention.
This Berlin program will take place over a convivial day at the Institut für Alles Mögliche. Audiences are invited to attend a presentation of the workshops led by artist and curator Cleo Wächter at the Bona Peiser socio-cultural space. Researchers Nadine Wanono and Côme Ledésert will offer a participatory lecture based on minor gestures, exploring empowering constraints and generating improvised intelligence. This will continue with a collective listening of Gisèle Gonon’s piece Dissidences des Champs, followed by a discussion of her 2024 research on queer lives in rural areas. To conclude, a video produced by Lam Son Nguyen at KOMMET will be screened, reviewing the results of research conducted by artists-in-residence in Montbrun-les-Bains (Drôme-Provençal) and Berlin.
Supported by
In partnership with
Edition III
From December 2, 2022 till February 26, 2023 the Bärenzwinger in collaboration with an• other here opens its house with two artists who have been appointed through an Open Call to develop winter-proof projects over a processual exhibition and winter residency on site. Over a period of three months, Sujatro Ghosh and Stephanie Imbeau will develop performative and in-situ installations, and enter into a dialogue with each other, strengthening and enabling both collective and solidarity-based approaches.
Stephanie Imbeau’s work investigates how people seek community, personal safety and a place to belong. She uses representations of monumental and fragile houses, exploring their duality, both restful and transient.
During her residency, she invites us to shed our certainties and rethink these multi-layered spaces that interweave our lives with those of others. Winter is often a time of rest and retreat, but also of reactivating the ‘preserved’. The act of retrieving dehydrated, frozen and pickled food is not only a practical way of bridging the hibernation of plants and animals, but also becomes an act of embodying memories. Sujatro Ghosh will touch upon various forms of preservation, the social and political aspects of food and the coming together over and through food as part of the three-month residency.
In collaboration with and supported by
Edition II
· Residency ·
Following its 2020 edition in Berlin (Germany), the nomadic art residency an• other here moves to Montbrun-les-Bains (France) from September to October 2022.
This program is the result of a collaboration between the collective of art workers Polynome (Marseille, France) and an• other here.
Proximity has constantly been at the center of human and societal concerns. Although analyzed in a spatial context, its current counterpart, “contemporary proximity”, introduces the idea of a breakdown of the physical, to the benefit of more immediate human relations, consumption, exchanges and services. This proximity generates cultural and economic mutations to the detriment of a sustainable relationship with the local, henceforth involved with the global. Proximity outlines will be studied within an• other here, through the prism of experiments and artistic forms. Visual artist Dounia Chemsseddoha and multidisciplinary artist Lisa Hoffmann have been selected to develop projects conceived in relation to the residency space as well as locally, while seeking to integrate their own ethics of proximity.
In collaboration with
Institutional partners and sponsors
Media Partner
Local partner
As part of Résonance program of the 16th Lyon Biennale 2022
· Exhibition ·
The nomadic residency program an· other here allowed artists Dounia Chemsseddoha and Lisa Hoffmann to meet with local residents and explore the village of Montbrun-les-Bains in Drôme provençale. Dounia investigates artisanal practices inherent to a local nature, using ritual as a means to reveal their ancestral virtues. Lisa articulates photographic and textual gestures as formal vectors to trace manifestations of the invisible. Together they sediment with the non-human, reveal the fragile, the moving and sometimes the intangible. Through sculpture, installation and photography, Dounia Chemsseddoha and Lisa Hoffmann unveil at KOMMET the results of their research generated on this territory and transcribe the contours of this bucolic environment.
Curated by Livia Tarsia in Curia and Émilie d’Ornano
Supported by
Edition I
In an era of deep changes, spatial perceptions are more prevalent within our shelters, and they alter our conception of the living and work places. Confronted by multiple boundaries, we were encouraged to explore the meanings of home and other everyday spaces, condensed in our nearby environment. This resonated with the practice of many artists, as their working habits were disrupted and had confronted them even more with the notion of concealment. Whether it was the inaccessibility of their production sites or their exhibitions venues. They experienced their living spaces intensely, transforming them into a receptacle of contestation, (re)invention and creation, bringing out new time-spaces. These engaged habitats indistinctly juxtaposed individual (mental), relational (to others) and historical spaces translated in the frame of the residency an• other here by artists Asìs Ybarra, Laure Catugier, Alan Affichard and Aiko Shimotsuma.
The 2020 edition took place in a private home on the outskirts of Berlin. In that familiar habitat the artists researched, conceptualised and realised site-specific projects. According the needs of each of them, production and curatorial supports were provided. Considering the pandemic, an• other here undertook to conduct meetings and events adapted to the circumstances.