Presentation by Dominique Koch

On Friday May 23, MAPS+S (Master of Arts in Public Spheres + Sound) is delighted to welcome Dominique Koch for tutorials with students. The day will conclude with a public presentation by the artist.

Friday May 23 at 4.30pm at Movimax (Route de l'Ancien Sierre 9, Sierre)

"In my work, I’m interested in bringing together different forms of knowledge through conversations with people from diverse disciplines and backgrounds, to collaboratively explore questions about our being in the world. These conversations are an integral part of my practice, often culminating in film and sound installations as well as objects. I like to describe my installations and work cycles as 'thinking laboratories'. My most recent project — also a film and sound installation currently in development — draws on a scientific source: the cosmic sound horizon. It will be an invitation to go on re/searching for other possible meanings and interpretations of what we perceive by shifting our attention to the sonic and the vibrancy of matter, always in flux. It thus invites all of us to experiment with speculative accounts and to rethink the human being within an entangled and vibrant potency." Dominique Koch

Biography

Dominique Koch ('1983) lives and works in Basel. From 2004 until 2011 she studied photography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig.
Recent solo exhibitions include: We Can’t Be Anything but Edible at Aterraterra Lab Palermo (2023) and Moving Knots Across Strings at MASI Lugano (2022).
Her works were presented in various group exhibitions at, among others: ArtLab Buenos Aires (2025), Fondazione MAST Bologna (2024), Museum Tinguely Basel (2023), Radius Delft (2025 & 2022), Schlossmuseum Linz (2022), CCCB Barcelona (2021) & Azkuna Zentroa Bilbao (2022), Shedhalle Zürich (2020), Istituto Svizzero di Roma (2020), Lagos Biennial II (2019), A Tale of a Tub Rotterdam (2019), Frankfurter Kunstverein (2019), EKKM Tallinn (2018), Kunsthalle Mainz (2017), Copenhagen Contemporary (2017).
Dominique Koch received a residency at CERN Geneva and ALMA/ESO Chile in 2024 and was a resident in the La Becque Main Residency Programme in 2022.