CV — Saturne

Saturne (b. 1994 in Paris; lives and works in Switzerland) is an artist, model and performer whose practice encompasses context-specific performance, dance, acting, as well as video, photography and installation. In addition, Saturne often works collaboratively. In 2024 they funded a party collective centring trans + gender-non-conforming performers and audience.

Their interventions in existing economies of value surface the unacknowledged work in the making of more just inclusive institutions and a more just civil society. Working extensively with their own image, Saturne currently focuses actively on creating alternative models and narratives in the collective system of representation.

EDUCATION
2023 MA in Fine Arts – Institut Kunst, HGK, Basel (CH)
2020 BA in Video and Photography – Gobelins, Paris (FR)
2019 Exchange programme – China Academy of Art, Hangzhou (CN)

PERFORMANCES
2025 Fresh Window for Lara & Noa Castro Lema – Museum Tinguely, Basel (CH)
2024 They Performed What They Promised – Hafé Containeré, Basel (CH)
2024 Money$exchange – Humbug, Basel (CH)
2023 Transcorporation Launch Gala – Sophiensaele, Berlin (DE)
2023 Put your money where your mouth is – Kunsthaus Baselland (CH)
2023 Who am I, when you can’t see me? – Kunsthaus Baselland (CH)
2022 Comfort Zone – Fondation Beyeler, Basel (CH)
2021 Transition, in the absence of a body – ACT Festival, Biel (CH)

SCREENINGS
2023 Homografia Festival – Bruxelles (BE)
2023 In der Spülmaschine – Die Mini Küche, Basel (CH)
2023 Starsign Screenings – Amore, Basel (CH)
2019 FUSE Festival – Karlovac (HR)
2019 Unseen festival III – Cavtat (HR)
2019 FeKK Ljubljana Short Film Festival – Ljubljana (SL)

STARRING
2023 Songs From Within, directed by Nefeli Chrysa Avgeris
2023 regarding the future I have nothing to say, directed by Saturne in collaboration w/ Li Tavor

EXHIBITIONS
2023 Festival Les Urbaines – Pyxis, Lausanne (CH)
2023 El Gran Grito – Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz (CH)
2020 Mémoire – Douanes de Paris, Paris (FR)
2017 Sur Rendez-Vous – Arnaud Deschin Galerie, Paris (FR)

RESIDENCIES
2024 Migros-Kulturprozent Sparx (CH)

AWARD
2019 Best Cinematography – FUSE Festival, Karlovac (HR)

PUBLICATIONS + PRESS
2023 Raubgut oder Souvenir? Das Kunsthaus Baselland vermisst zwei Objekte
Basler Zeitung, Basel (CH)
2023 I Hear a New World! Revamping Public Programming with Joy
Edited by Chus Martínez
Published by IAGN HGK Basel FHNW and Fondation Beyeler