Mayana Redin
Mayana Redin
Mayana Redin
Mayana Redin
Mayana Redin
Mayana Redin
Mayana Redin
Mayana Redin
Granita
Mayana Redin
Mayana Redin
Mayana Redin
Mayana Redin
Mayana Redin
Mayana Redin
Mayana Redin
Granita bar
Granita bar
Percy Nortey
Percy Nortey
Percy Nortey
Percy Nortey
Percy Nortey
Percy Nortey
Percy Nortey
Granita bar
Granita bar
Celia Hug & Florian Schärer
Celia Hug & Florian Schärer
Celia Hug & Florian Schärer
Celia Hug & Florian SchärerOpen Studios & Film Program
We cordially invite you to the Open Studios with our current guest artists, followed by a film night curated by Katalin Deér (artist and co-founder of the Atelierhaus Stiftung Sitterwerk) as part of Sitter-Ciné.
5–8:30 p.m.: Open Studios with Percy Nii Nortey and Mayana Redin & Wax Kiosk by Silas Moser, Carla Scholl, and Katharina von Koss, with drinks and a happening (Atelierhaus)
6 p.m.: Sitter Walk with Celia Hug & Florian Schärer exploring river and book landscapes (meeting point at the blue crane near the pool)
Starting at 6 p.m.: Bar & Badi (food from 7 p.m.)
8:30 p.m.: Sitter-Ciné – Open-air cinema at the bathhouse
Angertal, Aglaia Konrad/Willem Oorebeek, 2011
Sittertal mon amour, Michel Auder, 2026
Film, Mayana Redin, 2026
Seestück, Asi Föcker, 2026
Mayana Redin is a guest artist at Sitterwerk from June through the end of August (in cooperation with Pro Helvetia). The Brazilian artist, researcher, and professor of Visual Arts at UFMG (University of Minas Gerais) explores in her work humanity’s cosmogonic, technical, and artefactual imaginaries of humanity using three-dimensional forms and the dialogue between image and sculpture to create scenes, installations, and objects. In recent years, she has been investigating the relationship between cosmic imagination and its material orientation in space. In the guest studio, she is showing, among other things, fragments of an installation made of wax channels and Plexiglas tubes through which a fuse burned, as well as sketches of the tube formations. The film recording of this—the actual artistic work—will be on view on 26 August.
Also through an open call by Pro Helvetia, multidisciplinary artist Percy Nii Nortey from Kumasi, Ghana, is a guest artist at Sitterwerk from July through the end of August. In his work, he explores identity, labor, and materiality, blurring the lines between installation, performative objects, and moving sculpture. Rooted in personal history and Ghana’s socioeconomic conditions, his practice seeks to decolonize minds, empower Black communities, and reclaim agency over the narrative. Percy frequently engages local workers in his creative process through projects that repurpose second-hand fabrics—distributing them, collecting them after use, and transforming them into artworks—to highlight the significance of labour and its role in society. In the guest studio, Percy presents newly created, large-format textile works made from recycled wax-print fabrics from Indonesia, the Netherlands, and Ghana, which were sewn together on site.
In August, this year’s winners of the Next Generation Sustainability Award (NEXA) spent a month in residence in the Sittertal. The award was granted for the third time by the HGK Basel as part of the FHNW Sustainability Week. The two winning projects will be presented during the Open Studios:
Although aluminum can be recycled with virtually no loss, the process consumes large amounts of energy. The “Wax Kiosk” project by Silas Moser, Carla Scholl, and Katharina von Koss explores how aluminum extrusion profiles can be joined together in an energy-efficient and user-friendly way: using wax. Presented as a staged kiosk, this functional project creatively brings the principle of circular connection to life—aluminum and wax can be separated without damage by applying heat.
Graphic designers Celia Hug and Florian Schärer explore the relationship between human infrastructure and protected natural areas. On a joint walk along the Sitter River, they draw a connection to their book project “Pioniere im Fluss – Atlas of Switzerland's Floodplains” and offer insights into their design practice, which straddles cartography and critical design.