Angela Wittwer News Projects About
Angela Wittwer (*1987, she/her) works in art, publishing and graphic design. For cultural and educational institutions and practitioners she crafts concepts and texts, edits publications, coordinates projects, and designs printed matter as well as digital content.

In her research-based and often site-specific artistic practice she collaborates with other artists and researchers and works in varying media, such as sound, drawing and installation. Currently, she reflects on postcolonial entanglements and fluid subjectivities and co-creates semi-fictional personae merging historical fact with fabulation. Her collaborative works have been part of group exhibitions at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k., Helmhaus Zürich, Kunsthalle Zürich and Theater Basel, as well as at the Contemporary Art Festival Colomboscope.

Since 2011 she has been involved as a co-editor and editor in publications for Maria Eichhorn, Shedhalle Zurich, the Federal Office of Culture, Bernisches Historisches Museum and the Zurich University of the Arts.

Angela Wittwer is a member of the association ‘Das Wandbild muss weg!’, co-artist for ‘Substances’ and co-caretaker for ‘Studio for Memory Politics’. She is based between Jakarta and Zurich.


Monographs
2019
Za'atari. Access Granted
with Eliza I.W.K.B. Soleim (Oslo)
ISBN: 978-82-93369-16-5
Contributions for publications
2022
laying out the sea to the thought
For SCROLL: Projects on Paper (part 3)
With Arham Rahman (Yogyakarta)
Published by Archive Books (Berlin) and in the framework of Colomboscope (Colombo)
Read about the publication

2021
Dan Dia Bilang Gitu
For SCROLL Thru
With Rahmat Arham (Makassar)
Published in the framework of the Digital Program of Colomboscope (Colombo)
Watch the work

2018
Skript
For Dissonance (Issue 142)
With Ricardo Eizirik (Berlin)
Read the work

2018
Wir ist ein Pronomen
For Zine – to March, Clandestine Life of the BoycottGiiirls!
Corner College Press, Zurich
Read the publication's description

2015
Eine langsame, kreisende Annäherung
For Das Dreieck der Liebe. Körperlichkeit und Abstraktion in der Zürcher Kunst / The Triangle of Love. Physicality and Abstraction in Zurich Art
Helmhaus Zurich (ed.)
ISBN: 978-3-85881-506-4

2015
Eine zeichnerische Recherche zu Sexarbeit in Zürich
For Kamion (Issue 1): Aus den Kreisläufen des Rassismus
Editorial and co-editorial work
2024
Widerstände. Vom Umgang mit Rassismus in Bern / Resistances. On Dealing with Racism in Bern / Résistances. Comment aborder le racisme à Berne
Exhibition publication
Bernisches Historisches Museum
More information here

2024
Julia Wolf: Re-Visioning Histories in der Gegenwartskunst. Die Arbeiten von Hiwa K und Petrit Halilaj
ISBN: 978-3-8376-6808-7
More information here

2023
Use it! Work it! Play it!
Nadja Baldini (ed.)
Visit the online publication

2014–2016
blog.zhdk.ch/genderverhandeln
Zurich University of the Arts (ed.)
Visit the website

2013
Magazin 31, 20: JH
Institute for Theory, Zurich University of the Arts (ed.)

2012
Eindeutigkeiten sprengen / Subverting Disambiguities
Anke Hoffmann and Yvonne Volkart for Shedhalle Zürich (ed.)
Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg
ISBN: 978-3-86984-355-1
More information here

2012
Die Zeitkapsel im Wasserfall der Steinach / The Time Capsule in the Waterfall on the Steinach River
Maria Eichhorn, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne
ISBN: 978-3-86335-148-9

2011
Connect. Kunst zwischen Medien und Wirklichkeit / Connect. Art between Media and Reality
Shedhalle Zurich / Swiss Federal Office of Culture (ed.)
Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg
ISBN: 978-3-86984-246-2
Projects
2024–today
Substances
With Stefanie Knobel, Samrat Banerjee (Zurich / Kolkata)
Visit the project website

2022–today
Studio for Memory Politics
With Sandev Handy, Vera Ryser, Sally Schonfeldt, Aziz Sohail (Colombo / Zurich / Karachi)

2021–today
Das Wandbild muss weg!
With Izabel Barros, Fatima Moumouni, Esther Poppe, Vera Ryser, Bernhard C. Schär, (Berne / Zurich / Frankfurt am Main)
City of Berne
Visit the project website
More information on the ongoing exhibition

2018
Read! make it happen
Exhibition and performances
Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta / Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst DAAD Indonesien

2013–2016
Playground Z+
Interdisciplinary events in the public sphere
Zurich University of the Arts

2014–2016
Gender ver/handeln Z+
Interdisciplinary platform and network
Zurich University of the Arts

2015
Showroom International Z+
Interdisciplinary symposium and exhibition
Zurich University of the Arts
Exhibitions (as artist)
2023
A heavy, heavy duty – where the cotton lies
With Stefanie Knobel (Zurich)
Schönau, Wetzikon
See the description

2020
Voices from an Archived Silence
With Rahmat Arham (Makassar)
Theater Basel
Read the publication and the work description, and listen to the listening version

2017
What's Cooking – A re-arrangement
With Stefanie Knobel (Zurich)
Haus zur Glocke, Steckborn

2016
A heavy, heavy duty
With Stefanie Knobel (Zurich)
Les Complices*, Zurich
Read the description

2015/2016
They Printed It! Invitation cards, press releases, inserts and other forms of artistic (self-)marketing
Kunsthalle Zurich

2015
The Triangle of Love. Physicality and Abstraction in Zurich Art
With Martina Baldinger, Alessia Conidi (Olten / Basel)
Helmhaus Zurich
Listen to the audio part

2015
The THERE-THERE School of English DADA presents: DADA PUNKT
With Nina Bandi, Sofia Bempeza, Stefanie Knobel, Vera Ryser, Emre Sarigöl, Sophie Vögele (Zurich / Bern)
Studio One Gallery, London

2014
A drawing research on sex work in Zurich
With Martina Baldinger, Alessia Conidi, La Sposa (Olten / Basel / Zurich)
Les Complices*, Zurich
Read the description

2011
One plus One. Artists' Books
With p.r.o.x.y (Zurich / Paris)
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k.

2010/2011
Hofstettenstrasse
Kunstmuseum Thun
Exhibitions (as co-curator)
2025–today
Voices from an Archived Silence. Transoceanic Exchanges
With Studio for Memory Politics (Zurich / Karachi / Colombo / Melbourne / Jakarta)
Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi
Studio Kayamai, Colombo
See the description

2024–today
Widerstände. Vom Umgang mit Rassismus in Bern / Resistances. On Dealing with Racism in Bern / Résistances. Comment aborder le racisme à Berne
With the association Das Wandbild muss weg! (Berne / Zurich / Frankfurt am Main)
Bernisches Historisches Museum
See the description
Lectures and workshops
2025
Dekoloniale Friktionen und Kritische Fiktionen (Decolonial Frictions and Critical Fictions)
Workshop-seminar
With Stefanie Knobel
Zurich University of the Arts

2019
Kerja-kerja Riset Seniman (Artistic Research)
Lecture for Siku Ruang Terpadu, Makassar

2018
Becoming A Vampiric Time Traveler
For Kaleido Retreat

2016
Lecture for Work, Migration, Memes, Personal Geopolitics
On Curating, Zurich University of the Arts
Part of Manifesta 11 Parallel Events, Zurich

2015
Seminar Gender ver/handeln 1: Stimme
With Andrea Gleiniger, Isabel Mundry, Katharina Tietze, Yvonne Wilhelm
Zurich University of the Arts
Performances and interventions
2016
Textile-disco
With Stefanie Knobel (Zurich)
Les Complices*, Zurich

2015
track to matter to noise
With Nina Bandi, Sofia Bempeza, Stefanie Knobel, Vera Ryser, Emre Sarigöl, Sophie Vögele (Zurich / Berne)
Shedhalle Zurich

2011
Zoom 14
Förderverein Kunstmuseum Thun
Webdesign and coding
2025
memorypolitics.studio

2024
substances.studio

2024
veraryser.ch (Adaption of existing Design)

2021–today
daswandbildmussweg.ch

2020–today
angelawittwer.com

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