Workshop
FATteam
Ursina Gabriela Roesch (she)
director - founder, project manager, artist
zh/ch
Despite resistance and hostility of the art world, Ursina Gabriela Roesch aka urgart was aware of the subversive and socio-political role of art. urgart creates multimedia conceptual art that creates and advances discourse. Already in early years her/his environment was influenced by world art. Ursina Gabriela Roesch finally decided to contribute to the art world as a woman as well as a man (dragking) - the persistent gender discrimination in the trade is a crucial reason for his/her commitment to FATart.
Ursina Gabriela Roesch's role as curator for the Women Power exhibition "144 Zurich Women Artists in Zurich" in 2016 was also inspiring and formative. The exhibition showed how present, yet still exceptional, the topic of women in art is. From the opening speech of Bice Curiger, former curator of the Kunsthaus Zürich:
"(...) We owe this lush and finely ramified overview to Ursina Gabriela Roesch, who has worked with great dedication over the past four months (without salary) to organize and select the works - she deserves applause."
Ursina Gabriela Roesch directs his/her focus on artworks and communication-oriented projects and commissions. See www.urgart.com.
Gesa Röllinger (she/her)
assistant project management
bsl/ch
Gesa studies art history at the University of Basel and has been supporting FATart since April 2022. She has read too many articles in specialist journals and visited too many exhibitions in which female artists are reduced to being wives, mothers, muse, models, assistants or acquaintances. She is fed up with the Western male narrative of art historiography. When Gesa is not submitting seminar papers that are "too monographic and too feminist" to her lecturers, she takes care of FATart's online presence.
Eleonora Stassi (she/her)
curator FATrdv 2024
sh/ch
Eleonora Stassi (*1989) is a freelance curator and Montessori teacher based in Zurich. Her work and research focuses on identity issues, feminism, digital nomadism, post-migration and art as a means of resistance and "visualisation". She developed her MAS project under the title "Curating (Post) Migration". In her practice, she has worked for intercultural organisations and festivals in Zurich, such as ExpoTranskultur and About Us! She is the initiator of the OTO SOUND MUSEUM, the collective ZAIRA ORAM, the MigrationsMuseum Zürich and the project Das feministische Kapital with Collettiva Kuratorinnen www.collettiva.ch. She is co-editor of the OnCurating issue "Work, Migration, Memes, Personal Geopolitics", publishes and presents together with a panel as a parallel event of Manifesta 11. With her pedagogical profile she supports Vebikus - Kunsthalle Schaffhausen in the organisation of mediation events and workshops for different target groups.
Nusa Núñez de La Torre (she/her) digital affairs
zh/ch
With roots in Switzerland, Spain and Peru, Nusa Núñez de La Torre carries the world within her. Her home is where her art is. Literally, because Nusa turns her most private spaces into walk-in luminous installations. She works with sound, light and video technology.
When Nusa is not travelling in analogue, she is in the digital ether. Working online offers Nusa further opportunities to advocate for the visibility of women artists.
Viviana Gonzalez (she/her)
meeting point for women artists* with a migration background ch/at
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Viviana is a Colombian visual artist. Her artistic and investigative work focuses on themes such as the relationships we build with places, cartography and migration, from a postcolonial perspective, and mainly through media such as drawing and installation. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Fine Arts and Cultural and Media Theories at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in cooperation with the Linz University of the Arts. For FATart she is the initiator of the meeting place for female artists with a migration background.
Mona Rosa (she/her)
project co-worker
zh/ch​
Mona Rosa is an artist and audio book producer. She empowers menstruating people to utilise their cycle resources and thus actively shape social spaces.
FAT supports her selectively in various functions.
Lukas Jäger (he/his)
graphic designer
bs/ch
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He is a trained printing technologist and studied visual communication at the University of Design and Art in Basel. Lukas has been responsible for the graphic implementation at FATart since the beginning and is responsible for ensuring that all printed products have a uniform appearance.
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irem güngez (she/her)
Photo and videography
zh/tr
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Irem is an artist and photographer. She originally comes from Istanbul and is based in Zurich. She supports FATart with photography and video documentation.
FATassociation
Noëlle Berger (she/her)
actuary and treasurer
zh/ch
Noëlle Berg (artist's name) is a woman and an artist and does not want to endure, but to act. To expose social conditioning and reference culture with bold poses drive her. The resulting work seeks to enrapture and disrupt, and in hindsight, seduce us to think of things differently and open our eyes to the beautiful and the possible. The engagement for FAT offers Noëlle Berg another opportunity to stand up for these values and concerns. www.noelle-berg.kleio.com
Lisa Spaar (she)
entrepreneur
bs/ch
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"I like people, find injustice unbearable and want to learn more about art. Being a board woman is a great way to combine all that."
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Lisa grew up in the countryside and has been at home on, by and in the water ever since. She has been working for a consulting firm for more than ten years and deals daily with redirecting rusty structures into flowing processes.
Maya Renfer
upport club
bs/uk
Maja holds a Bachelor's degree in Culture, Criticism and Curation from CSM London.
From an early age she was interested in art, but was always disappointed when the number of artists and FLINTAs in art exhibitions could be counted on one hand. In summer 2021, she joined FATart to support socially engaged curatorial work, which represents an essential step towards an inclusive art world.
Gudrun Kruse (she/her)
accounting
zrh/ch
Gudrun met Ursina on a bookkeeping course and that's how she joined FATart. The full-time mother of three children finds working for FATart a great way to balance her everyday life. She also finds it exciting to come into contact with art and to be able to exchange ideas with so many great people. Gudrun supports FATart with the organisation's bookkeeping.