
Interview
with Aqui Thami and Amanda Michalopoulou
Friday, 10th of February, 2.30pm
For the feminist free school at Sister Library we invite women from different walks of life to share with us their work and process and provide important tips and information for women who aspire to join similar area of practice. For this iteration artist Aqui Thami will be in conversation with writer Amanda Michalopoulou. Sister Library is an international project in Mumbai run by women writers. The interview session will be an online live event with an audience on site. All are welcome to attend, listen and discuss literature, narrative choices and the power of words. There will be Greek tea and biscuits.
CURRENTLY GUESTS AT ATELIER MONDIAL
- Amanda Michalopoulou (Writer in Residence) from Athens, Greece
- Aqui Thami (in cooperation with Pro Helvetia India) from Bombay, India
- Joaquina Salgado (in cooperation with Pro Helvetia South America) from La Plata, Argentina
- Michelle Marie Letelier from Rancagua, Chile and Berlin, Germany
- Caspar Fairhall from Perth, Western Australia

ATELIER MONDIAL IN THE CMS-MAGAZINE RADAR NR. 5
Travel around the world with artists from Atelier Mondial
The fifth issue of the CMS magazine RADAR is entirely dedicated to the exchange programme Atelier Mondial and lets former scholarship holders tell about their experiences.

Grant Holders
2023
The Atelier Mondial Juries met at the end of August 2023 and awarded 15 artists from the region of Basel/South Baden/Solothurn/Alsace a work stay abroad: From a total of 109 applications received, four juries in the fields of visual arts, literature, dance and fashion & textiles have selected the following artists for an Atelier Mondial Fellowship 2023:
Berlin (January - June 2023) | Sandra Knecht |
Berlin (July - December 2023) | Gerome Gadient |
Antofagasta (October - December 2023) | Jan van Oordt |
Buenos Aires (SKK-Atelier) | Franziska Baumgartner |
Jerewan (July - December 2023) | Vincent Gallais |
Cape Town / South Africa (July - December 2023) | Elena Margarete Baier |
New York (February - July 2023) | Raphaël Bachir Osman |
Paris (July - December 2023) | Marlijn Karsten |
Paris (April - December 2023) | Othmar Farré & Isadora Vogt |
Travel Fellowship | Laura Haby |
Research Fellowship for curators and cultural mediators of all disciplines | Len Schaller |
Oaxaca (July - August 2023) | Miriam Barth |
Travel Fellowship | Kihako Narisawa |
Paris (January – March 2023) | Mariann Bühler |
Atelier Mondial is an international scholarship programme that offers artists in the fields of visual arts, literature, fashion & textiles as well as dance & performing arts the opportunity to spend several months working in one of ten partner countries. Once a year, these 14 scholarships are announced for application in the Tri-Regio, plus a travel scholarship for a free project. The studio scholarships consist of a contribution to the cost of living as well as free use of a studio with a flat or a studio on site.
We would like to thank the partner institutions worldwide for their inspiring cooperation and the sponsorship for their support.