Workshop 3 — Socially Engaged Art: What is out there?
What forms of socially engaged art can we further develop or initiate together?
Share what you’re working on. Discover what others are doing.
Join us for an Open Practice Picnic in Platzspitzpark (near the pavilion): We’ll be sharing not only food, but also our projects.
Following our previous discussions about the why and how, we’ll now focus on what’s already happening: making current projects, initiatives, and practices visible, connecting them, and developing them further together.
You can present your work, gain insights into other practices, and see what conversations or perhaps even collaborations arise.
Please bring an A4 or A3 sheet with images and information about your work or projects -past or ongoing, and hang it directly in our instant gallery in the park.
If you cannot attend in person, you may submit a single image including your name, project title, year, and (if needed) a link to: [email protected]
We look forward to seeing you and to many new insights!
🗓️When: Friday 17 April, 18:00–20:30.
📍Where: Platzspitz Pavillon (behind Landesmuseum), 8001 Zürich
Socially Engaged Arts: How?
Workshop 2: Socially Engaged Art – How
How does Socially Engaged Art work in practice? What methods, formats, and experiences exist? Bring a tool, leave with a whole toolbox. 🧰
(✅Registration link in my profile bio - free entrance!)
In this second workshop of the series Socially Engaged Art, we turn to the how. Participants are invited to bring the tools, methods, and experiences from their own practice — and to discover those of others.
Through exchange, discussion of best practices, and reflection on ethical questions, we will begin to build a shared catalogue of approaches to socially engaged art: gathering tools, key principles, and open questions for the future.
🗓️When: Friday 27 March, followed by an apéro
📍Where: Projektraum 13, Dynamo. Wasserwerkstrasse 21, CH-8006 Zürich.
Registration at: https://eventfrog.ch/en/p/art-exhibitions/other-art-events/socially-engaged-arts-how-tools-methods-and-experiences-7427731322632726863.html
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The programme Socially Engaged Arts: Why – How – What aims to create contact zones and invites collective reflection on socially engaged arts today.
Its point of departure is the exhibition Violent Holes by Raphael Perret and his collaboration with Club La Fafa — a socially engaged artistic practice in dialogue with society and transformation.
In three workshops — Why, How, What — we will jointly explore, visualise, and discuss how art can have an impact within communities and across different creative fields: as a form of participation and change. The workshops are conceived as a laboratory for exchange, questions, and new perspectives.
The workshop is aimed at everyone who is interested in the interplay between art and society, works artistically in a socially engaged way, or is curious and wants to exchange ideas, think together and develop new concepts.
Wir laden dich ein zum Austauschabend und Podium
Lebendiges Kulturschaffen – was brauchen migrantische Communities?
Der Anlass findet zweisprachig Deutsch-Englisch statt.
25. März 2026, Heiliggeistkirche Bern
18.30 - 19.30 Uhr: Austausch/Open Space und Imbiss
19.30 Uhr: Podium mit
- Ursina Anderegg, Gemeinderätin/Direktion für Bildung, Soziales & Sport
- Nataliia Hradanovych, Living Room
- Lara Sutter, Satellites of Art
- Swiss African Forum
- Migrantische Kulturgruppen
Lara Sutter von Satellites of Art ist Teil des Podiums. Ihr Statement zu offeneren und inklusiven Räumen für migrantische Kulturschaffende findest du in den Slides. 🫶
@satellitesofart
Freu dich auf eine spannende Diskussion und Austausch.
#offenekirchebern #festivalderkulturenbern #community #kulturinbern
Visit and guided tour in dialogue with the artist of the current exhibition ‘Violent Holes – Approaching the Unspeakable’ by Raphael Perret at Kupper Modern.
📅Dates/Time:
Thursday, 26 February 2026, 18:30 – 19:30.
Thursday 26 March 2026, 18:30 – 19:30.
‼️Free registration links in Bio
📍Location: Kupper Modern, Zwinglistrasse 10, 8004 Zurich
The artist Raphael Perret has a socially engaged practice in which he dedicates himself to a single theme over extended periods. The current exhibition ‘Violent Holes – Approaching the Unspeakable’ at Kupper Modern features works created in collaboration with members of Club La Fafa (French colloquial for ‘the family’) over the past six years. Club La Fafa was founded in 2018 to explore coexistence between people with and without a recent migration background through relational aesthetics and improvisational practices.
In various formats, the physical traces, as well as the experiences of the unbearable and unspeakable left behind by the violence of global conflicts and disasters, are explored. During a guided tour, we will discuss with Raphael his work and practice.
Socially Engaged Arts: Why – How – What
Workshop 1: Why do we work in socially engaged ways? Finding a common vision.
(Registration link in my profile bio - free entrance!)
If we step into the future, how does socially engaged art look? What have we achieved, and how did we get there? In the first workshop of the series — Socially Engaged Arts – Why do we work in socially engaged ways? Finding a common vision — we imagine ourselves in 2036 in order to define the path we want to take today toward the future of socially engaged art.
When: Saturday, 21 February 2026, 3 - 6 pm, followed by an apéro
Where: kupper Modern, Zwinglistrasse 10, Zürich, CH
Registration at: https://eventfrog.ch/en/p/art-exhibitions/culture/socially-engaged-art-why-developing-a-shared-vision-7427272621245359664.html
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The programme Socially Engaged Arts: Why – How – What aims to create contact zones and invites collective reflection on socially engaged arts today.
Its point of departure is the exhibition Violent Holes by Raphael Perret and his collaboration with Club La Fafa — a socially engaged artistic practice in dialogue with society and transformation.
In three workshops — Why, How, What — we will jointly explore, visualise, and discuss how art can have an impact within communities and across different creative fields: as a form of participation and change. The workshops are conceived as a laboratory for exchange, questions, and new perspectives.
We, Lara Sutter and Nadja Baldini, understand our curatorial practice as socially engaged mediation. Together with Raphael Perret, we take up existing threads and create an open space for exchange among diverse artistic circles — to listen, reflect, and develop new insights. A temporary space at Kupper Modern for lost and new connections.
The workshop is aimed at everyone who is interested in the interplay between art and society, works artistically in a socially engaged way, or is curious and wants to exchange ideas, think together and develop new concepts.
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Upcoming Workshops
HOW? – Friday, March 27 / 4–7 PM
WHAT? – Friday, April 17 / 4–7 PM
Hormuz is a small island
off the southern coast of Iran
a place of salt winds, blinding light,
and mountains made not of stone,
but of red earth.
Three months before the massacre in Iran,
a torrential rain fell on Hormuz’s Red Soil Mine.
The hills dissolved into crimson rivers,
and those rivers poured into the sea
until the water itself turned the color of blood.
The world called it a natural spectacle.
A strange beauty.
A sea of red.
three months later, the same image returned
this time not made by rain,
but by hands that had forgotten how to be human.
When Iranians rose peacefully,
asking only for a life of freedom —
they were met by what many have described as one of the most brutal crackdowns in the nation’s modern history.
Protesters were hunted in the streets.
Bodies fell.
Blood ran through gutters,
across sidewalks,
into silence.
The rain of Hormuz had become a prophecy.
The photographs taken here in 2014 hold this same terrible contradiction:
white animals—symbols of innocence
standing inside a factory soaked in red.
Beauty inside blood.
Life inside a wound.
This is Iran
a people of extraordinary gentleness
living inside a machinery of cruelty.
@larasutter@satellitesofart
✨ In collaboration with Arrière-plan : atelier du mouvement @atelierarriereplan , we invite you to the vernissage of our upcoming exhibition at Arrière-plan : atelier du mouvement in Biel.
This collective exhibition brings together four artists from Iran whose practices differ widely in subject matter, medium, and approach. Landscape, environmental issues, inner worlds, and questions of culture and gender coexist in the space without being unified under a single theme.
Discover the works of four contemporary artists, each exploring distinct subjects and perspectives:
Arezou Mafi
Alireza Memariani
Akbar Rafiei
Taraneh Sadeghian
Curated by @larasutter .
📅 7 February 2026
🕒 17:30hr
📍 Arrière-Plan. Rue Haute 33A ¾ . 2502 Biel/Bienne (entrance behind the tower).
#ContemporaryArt #Vernissage #Biel #ArtExhibition #artistsperspective
