Embassy of Foreign Artists is launching a new cycle of Art&Science residencies (2026–2028) around the cross-cutting theme of imagination in research processes.
For more than ten years, the Embassy of Foreign Artists (EOFA) in Geneva has been hosting artists in residence and promoting collaborations between art and science. From 2026 onwards, the programme will be rolled out on a new basis, centred on the cross-cutting theme of imagination — considered to be an essential driver of thought, creativity and research. This cycle of residencies will run for three years (2026–2028), with three three-month sessions, and will be open to new scientific, academic, medical, technological and industrial partners.
At a time when generative technologies are revolutionising the way we think and create, the role of human imagination is becoming a field of exploration common to all disciplines. With imagination in research processes as its guiding principle, the programme invites participants to explore together:
- the role of intuition in scientific and artistic research;
- how images, representations and metaphors influence the construction of knowledge;
- the links between natural, visual and digital languages, between reason and sensitivity, between formula and form.
Residency periods are September to December 2026; February to April 2027; and February to December 2028.
Applications can be made from professional artists from all backgrounds engaged in an artistic research project in any field (visual arts, dance, theatre, music, writing, comics, cinema, etc.), whose project would benefit from the cutting-edge research conducted by the partner laboratories.
The artist will receive
- accommodation in a private room with access to the areas shared with other residents,
- a residency stipend of 1,400 CHF per month,
- mediation and communication support provided by EOFA,
- pairing with a scientist within their research project, and
- access to equipment and data depending on the laboratories.
