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
Stefan Hurtig, Leipzig
Theres Liechti in Winterthur
Karø Goldt in Berlin
Pavel Mendez in Cologne / Cuba
Dr Danièle Perrier in Koblenz
Project Coordinators
Alya Alawadhi, BA in Abu Dhabi
Aphroditi Bodenstedt in Düsseldorf
Jiwon Choi, South Korea / Zurich
Chiara Giardi, MA in Indonesia / San Marino
Xavier Kat in Mexico
Stanlislav Kholodnykh, Lviv / Ukraine
Meng Meng Li, Hong Kong
Raphaëlle Neidhart in Geneva
Leah Studinger & Raphael Reichert in Basel
Pia Wamsler in Vienna
Vivi Zhu in Abu Dhabi / Tokyo
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
Ronja Hensle in Düsseldorf
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, MA in Düsseldorf
PR
Polina Chizhova for International Projects
Dr Andrea Domesle for Switzerland
Pia Wamsler 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
2024
Jiwon Choi (South Korea / Zurich), Daun Kim (Abu Dhabi / South Korea), Lucien Liebecke (Düsseldorf/Halle), Zahira Mozafari (Zurich).
Tokyo team: Ning Zhou, Hal Xing (Xing Hal), Siying Li, YuQi Wang
Collaboration with MA in Curating at Manchester School of Art: Paul Brown, Victoria Fox, Holly Hare, Grace Hill, Mila Januszova.
2023
Melody Brocard (Neuchâtel), Zahira Mozaffari (Zurich / Teheran), Jiwon Choi (Zurich / Seoul), 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
Ueli von Allmen, Interlaken
Yana Bachynska, Lviv
Laura Binggeli and Carola Ketterer-Ertle, Bern
Jana P. Francová and Karin Písaříková, Brno
Maksym Khodak and Maria Noschenko, Kiev
Stanislav Kholodnykh, Kiev
Ok. Video, Jakarta
Ursula Maria Probst, Vienna
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