Maëlle Cornut is a Swiss visual artist and artistic researcher. She holds a MFA of the CCC research-based master program from the HEAD – Haute École d’Art et de Design de Genève.
Her practice is focused on generative approaches and oriented towards hope and living together. As a science-fiction passionate, she sees literature as a tool for thinking about the present world and our future. Nourished by collaborations with different spheres of society, she is particularly inspired by the scientific community. She sees the processes of mutualism and symbiosis as inspiring relational modes in the face of the ecological, social and societal crises with which we are confronted.
She activates various mediums depending on the situation and her researches materializes in in situ installations, highlighting specific issues of the places.
She currently holds a PolArts grant (Pro Helvetia and Swiss Polar Institute) for the art/science project «Intertwined destinies, glaciers and their companion species» conducted in tandem with Dr. Gianalberto Losapio from the University of Lausanne.
Selection of recent artistic activities
- 2023, Embodied Landscape, Villa Renata, Basel, CH
- 2022, Art x Science Talk, with Dr Gianalberto Losapio (UNIL), DOCK, Basel, CH
- 2022, Prix Fondation Irène Reymond
- 2021, Alliances, outdoor solo show, University Hospitals Geneva, CH
- 2021, Workshop and mediation residency, CRAC Alsace, France
- 2021, Womanhouse, Manoir de la ville de Martigny, CH
- 2019, Futurs Incertains, Musée d’art de Pully, CH
- 2018, Mass in Motion Residency, Matza Aletsch, Aletsch Glacier, CH
- 2017, Jungkunst, Winterthur, CH
- 2016, Accrochage [Vaud 2016], Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, CH