SaturneCV
Overview

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.




































picture ©flynn meyer
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)


RESIDENCY
2024  Migros-Kulturprozent Sparx (CH)


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


PUBLICATION + 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




picture ©Flynn Meyer