L’Abri’s project is built through a voluntary approach of partnerships with local cultural institutions, with the intention of creating programming platforms for up-and-coming artists. In this context, L’Abri focuses on creating links between venues and the Associated Artists.
La Bâtie
Festival pluridisciplinaire
Since 2018, L’Abri and La Bâtie have developped a partnership that aims to support emerging artists. Each year, we organise a seminar for L’Abri’s Associated Artists in close collaboration with the festival. Each year, La Bâtie launches a call for project for L’Abri’s residents with the aim of co-producing one or two projects for the next edition.
Emergentia
Création chorégraphique émergente
EMERGENTIA is a platform for contemporary and emerging choreographic creation. The fruit of a collaboration between L’Abri, the Pavillon – ADC and the TU – Théâtre de l’Usine, Emergentia is born from the shared desire to support contemporary and emerging choreographic creation, from the desire to create an open, abundant and generous platform of discovery… The programming, developped jointly by the three venues, combines a mix of local and international pieces as well as the co-production of several local creations through the framework of the festival.
C'est Déjà Demain
Festival de la jeune création
The excitement of first times! The purpose of the C’est déjà demain festival is to present the first projects of new creators from the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Théâtre du Loup, Théâtre Saint-Gervais Genève, L’Abri, and Le Grütli – Centre de production et de diffusion des arts vivants are pleased to come together to present its next edition. Sketches, first drafts, first and second projects, end of master’s studies performances: a compact, diverse and promising program!
Institutional partners
Support per project
L’Abri builds solid partnerships with a variety of international art organisations and artistic networks. This enables Associated Artists to carry out residencies in foreign countries. These partnerships are not unilateral, they function as exchanges: emerging foreign artists are welcomed to L’Abri just as our artists are welcomed abroad. These spaces for dialogue are a fertile meeting ground for artistic and intellectual stimulation, and also facilitate international collaborations between the Associate Artists and the foreign artists hosted at L’Abri.
Réseau Grand Luxe
France, Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Greece
The Réseau Grand Luxe is defined as a platform of artistic exchanges for choreographers who wish to develop new projects. Launched in 2015 and now supported by eight partner structures, the reseau Grand Luxe proposes to provide support for new choreographic creators and their projects.
Its nine partner institutions – the Grand Studio in Brussels, the Centre Chorégraphique National – Ballet de Lorraine, the Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin – CCN de Mulhouse, PÔLE SUD – Centre de Développement Chorégraphique National de Strasbourg, the Teatro Municipal dò Porto, the TROIS C-L | Maison pour la danse, the Freiburg Theater in Freiburg im Breisgau, L’Abri in Geneva and the Onassis Stegi in Athens – have decided to pool their know-how and their teams to serve artistic projects from their territories, which require, at some point in their development, specific and adapted assistance.
Opération Iceberg
France, Switzerland
Initiated and led by the Eurockéennes de Belfort (FR) and La Fondation cma (CH), 13 Franco-Swiss cultural actors are developing an experimental project to support 11 emerging groups who benefit from residencies (Immersions), training (Arrimages), and concerts (Grands bains) thanks to privileged opportunities to meet with technical coordinators, artistic contributors, and new technology communicators.
L’Abri has joined the Iceberg project as a reference structure for Geneva, hosting coaching residencies and proposing an Associate Artist for each season of the project.
Futuros Emergentes
Futuros Emergentes is a project designed in collaboration with REDIV. The Red Iberoamericana de Videodanza, REDIV, is a network of managers, researchers and artists that works transversally through various projects and actions of curating, dissemination, training, management, production and research in the field of video dance.
The collaborative project consists of a series of exchanges of artist residencies between Switzerland and REDIV members as well as digital residencies bringing together the participants via the internet.
Futuros Emergentes was created as part of ProHelvetia’s “To Gather” call for projects, with the aim of fostering a time of critical reflection on the current situation, sharing ideas for more equal forms of exchange between cultures and contexts, and experimenting with new formats of collaboration.
Nau Ivanow
Spain
Nau Ivanow is a performing arts residency space that welcomes and supports young companies in their artistic creation. Their mission is to facilitate the creative process, project mobility and the internationalisation of artists and companies. Nau Ivanow fosters exchanges between artists and seeks to professionalise them, particularly emerging artists. Through the residency programme, the aim is to respond to the difficulties of accessing spaces and working contexts.
Nau Ivanow aims to be an international reference for professionalisation, mobility and residencies for scenic creation. It aims to give artists a foothold and to create a space where communities can experiment with creative processes in a participatory way, either amongst themselves or during meetings between companies and the local area, thereby enhancing the creative process and the reality of the cultural sector.
Kaserne Basel
Switzerland
Kaserne Basel is one of the most important venues for the independent contemporary theatre, dance, performance and popular music scene in Switzerland. Moreover, it is a key partner of the local, national and international theatre and dance scene and, as a co-producer, continuously promotes the development of independent theatre and dance companies, as well as young artists from Basel, Switzerland and around the world. Kaserne Basel is also well known for its concerts featuring internationally and nationally renowned musicians. The Kaserne is also renowned for its concerts with musicians of international and national renown. The programme, which focuses on concert programming, is characterised by an eclectic mix of emerging, promising and innovative groups, as well as those that are already well established.
To provide a place for creative exchange and conviviality, the Kaserne offers a range of residency formats for artists. In collaboration with various partners in Western Switzerland and Ticino (LAC Lugano, Théâtre Sévelin 36, Arsenic, L'Abri, Théâtre St-Gervais Genève, Théâtre du Grütli), three-month research residencies are held at the Kaserne. The aim is to promote artistic exchange between Switzerland's different linguistic regions.
Galerie Rhizome
Algeria
rhizome is a newly established contemporary art gallery in Alger. Functioning as both a commercial gallery and as an independent arts organisation, rhizome works to promote emerging contemporary artists with a focus on art from Algeria and its diaspora.
In collaborating with artists, rhizome works closely with individual approaches and practices to support the realisation of extraordinary projects. rhizome strives to develop its artist roster to include both emerging and established talent. This will form a diverse community that will exchange varied perspectives, bridging the generational gap and promoting mutual learning.
rhizome's participation in the commercial gallery market enables the space to fund its training, mediation and residency projects. The cultural space includes a flat in which residencies are regularly organised.
Festival Nido - Rivera
Uruguay
Nido is a festival of live arts and performance. Around the artistic programme, another group of artists (mainly young artists from South America) is created: invited by Nido, they camp on site, participate in discussions, exchanges and laboratories surrounded and accompanied by an artist mentor.
Campo Abierto is a platform dedicated to stimulating creative thinking and practices from different backgrounds such as education, culture, art or technology. Campo Abierto seeks to put these thoughts and practices to work on the social problems and needs in which the space is situated, with the idea of generating innovative prototypes of life that promote social development. About ten kilometres from the city centre of Rivera and on the border of Livramento in Brazil, the ten hectares of Campo Abierto form a large wasteland of experimentation for new forms of habitat, creation and collective reflection.
Since 2018, L’Abri has been collaborating with Nido to allow several young artist associates to participate in this project.
Om Centru Coregrafic (Cluj)
Romania
The collaboration of L’Abri with OM Centru Coregraphic is an extention of the exchanges initiated in 2019 with the independant cultural scene of the city of Cluj-Napoca in Romania. In the past, L’Abri had collaborated with LaPătrat, as well as with the Fabrica de Pensule/The Paintbrush Factory, the first major collective artistic project in the Romanian cultural scene and a pertinent example of the transformation of an insdustrial building into a cultural space. After the dematerialisation of the Fabrica de Pensule in 2020, L’Abri wished to pursue its relation with the thriving local art scene, made up of a vast network of organisations which share the same interests.
Created by Oana Mureșan (choreographer and danser) in 2022, OM Studio is a choreographic center born out of the need to explore the cognitive and emotional intricacies of dance and to shed a new light on the processes and production of this type of movement in space and time, more specifically on its performative quality and its expressive dimension. The OM choregraphic center provides a thorough mechanism for exploring dance languages through an active approach (production and dance classes) and a generative approch (research and residencies).
Domaine de Kerguéhennec (Bignan)
France
An essential part of the historical heritage of the Morbihan department in Brittany, tha Domaine de Kerguéhennec asserts a singular identity, built on the encounter between historical heritage, nature, and artistic creation. Now a contempory art center, its ambition is to bring together all of its historical, scenic and artistic assets in a cultural approach that is mindful of all audiences. Confirming its vocation to support artistic creation, each year the Domaine welcomes artists in residency coming from a variety of artistic fields, ranging from plastic and visual arts to sound creation and choreography. Practical and research workshops, a dance studio, as well as living quarters are made available to them to support them in their projects.The time spent in residency may be used for research work phases or for completion of creations, as well as to awareness-raising projects within the framework of Artistic and Cultural Education.
Palazzo Trevisan Degli Ulivi (Venise)
Italy
As part of the « New Echo system » program
New Echo System is an annual program of residencies and concerts, and brings together swiss and italian artists from various disciplines.
Presented by the artistic director Enrico Bettinello, and supported by the swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, the third edition of New Echo System is composed of ten events held between January and December 2024.
These events emphasize collaboration between disciplines, from their research phase at the Palazzo, to their performance, either on site or in collaboration with local and international partners.
The 2024 edition of New Echo System opened with the residency of the swiss artist Salômé Guillemin Poeuf and the italian musician Anaïs Drago, which took place between the 15th and 20th of January, with its final performance on Friday, January 19th, at the Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi.
Azkuna Zentroa Alhondiga (Bilbao)
Spain
Azkuna Zentroa is the Bilbao Centre for Contempory Society and Culture, with a local and international vision, open to dialogue with different communities of audiences. Here, culture is experienced as a practice, a process and a space for experiments.
The organisation works with people, artists, agents and artistic communities, as well as hybrid, multilateral programming models that favour the everyday dimension of the contemporary in order to reach all communities of audiences. Azkuna Zentroa pays particular attention to current Basque creation and to feminist perspectives in art, with mediation and education as ways to generate critical knowledge and transform society through art and artists.
