Marlie Mul is an artist whose artwork manifests somewhere in between sculpture, painting, fashion, distribution, writing, experiments in branding, the social, and the virtual. She teaches in and co-coordinates the MFA WorkMaster at HEAD (Haute école d’art et de design) in Geneva, Switzerland.

With Harry Burke, she co-edits ground, a counter-institutional fanzine that sets out to look beyond institutions in their current form as dominant frameworks for artistic production, and embraces grassroots political and aesthetic perspectives. In 2018 she published the book CANCELLED, which revolves around her public cancellation of a solo exhibition at GoMa, an art institution in Scotland, in 2017.

Marlie Mul’s work has been shown in group exhibitions such as: The 33rd Biennial of Graphic Arts 2019, Ljubljana; ZHDK, Zurich; Istituto Svizzero, Rome; 49 Nord 6 Est–FRAC Lorraine, Metz; La Panacée, Montpellier; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Kunsthalle Bern; Fridericianum, Kassel; 9th Berlin Biennial; 2014 Taipei Biennial; Swiss Institute, New York; Witte de With, Rotterdam; ICA/Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Sculpture Center, New York, Ballroom Marfa, Texas.

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Arash Fayez is an artist based between Madrid and Barcelona. He has a bachelor in architecture from the university of Soureh (Tehran, Iran) and a Masters in Fine Arts from California College the Arts (San Francisco, United States). Fayez’s practice investigates the condition of displacement in relation to desire where he researches notions such as statelessness, limbo, and in-betweenness. Spanning writing, performance, and video, his projects explore the condition of a mind in limbo as a result of the body in between; or, in other words, the mental and physical states of being in limbo as a result of being between two locations, two cultures, or two identities. His practice looks at the segment that separates these two phenomena and aim its audience to neither one place nor another but to what can be found in between.

His work is primarily based on autobiographical experiences interlaced with fictional and nonfictional content. By employing storytelling strategies, he combines fiction and documentary to construct an emotional landscape that resonates with the in-between. Fayez has presented his projects at venues such as Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); Musée du quai Branly (Paris); the British Museum (London); the Wattis Institute (San Francisco); Asian Art Museum (San Francisco); Württembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart); Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA); Cineteca Matadero (Madrid); and La Virreina Centro de la Imagen (Barcelona). He is currently a fellow artist at the Académie de France (Casa de Velázquez) to develop his new film “A Game of Chess” and a publication “Apolis”.

Last update 9th November 2022

Graduated in Economics from the University of Bologna. In 2007, together with two partners, he created his own brand (‘be kind’) that covers glass design and experimental electronic music events of young Italian producers. In 2011 he moved to Spain and studied photography at Blank Paper school.

In 2014 he opened a space in Malasaña dedicated to young designers (‘Casa Quiroga’), and at the same time decided to form a collective of creatives from different fields and together they founded Espositivo, a contemporary art space that now runs with a renewed team. Within the project emerges La Escuela de Espositivo, a perfect way to spread the new languages of contemporary art from the educational field. The project includes ‘Landa ’, a Master’s of Espositivo, an MA programme directed to visual artists, creatives and designers and shared by renowned professionals and researchers from the current art panorama such as Cristina Garrido, Roberto Ruiz, José Díaz, Sádaba Tourón Collective, Clara Montoya, David Bestué,
Ana Esteve Reig, Kiko Pérez, Blanca Gracia, Federico Clavarino, Mario Espliego, and Mauricio Freyre.
Since then, and with the intention of promoting contemporary creation and contributing to the dissemination of innovative projects from the field of visual arts, Espositivo has become a suitable space from which to generate a continuous dialogue among artists, professionals and the general public. Also, with the start of the new season, Cicchetti and the Espositivo team
seek to create a change in the dynamics of production and consumption, and try to develop more sustainable artistic projects for environmental and economic purposes, pushing artists to work with the environment and with existing materials.

Last update: November 11th, 2019

In 2007 Louis-Charles Tiar founded Madriz and Barcelonés, two cultural magazines in Spain. During his 12-year career as publisher and art director, he navigated them through print media’s post-digital convulsions. He holds an MBA from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and an MFA in Digital + Media from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Louis-Charles now teaches courses on networked media and interaction design at RISD. As an emerging media artist, he designs systems of collaboration and participation that harness the relationships between audiences, participants and authors. His practice incorporates book publishing, photography and web programming.

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Laurent Schmid is teaching and doing research at HEAD–Genève, where he is in charge of the ‘Work.Master’ MFA program – since this summer together with Marlie Mul. As an artist, he develops narrative types of laboratory trials in the field of the grey area of scientific and pseudo-scientific physics, an inquiry into this system as a model of social realities. He manipulates facts from history and science history to reveal unexpected associations, using controversial and even refuted theories from philosophers and physicists.

*lives and works in Bern and Geneva.

Last update: November 11th, 2019