Salome Schneebeli
Landis & Gyr Stiftung Residency
2026
Salome Schneebeli is a Swiss choreographer and director who lives in Vienna and Zurich. In addition to directing her own pieces as well as choreographing for theater (including the Burgtheater Vienna, Thalia Theater Hamburg, Theater Leipzig, and Schauspielhaus Zurich), music videos, film, and opera, she is a visual artist. Her drawings, installations, and videos, often created in collaboration with the "Morphological Institute" (Schneebeli/Multanen/Wohler), have been exhibited in New York, Tbilisi, Bordeaux, Vienna, Germany, and Switzerland, among other places.
As a performer and dancer, she has collaborated with artists such as Sasha Waltz (Germany), Miranda Pennell (UK), Robert Steijn (Netherlands), Z’ev (USA), Joke Lanz (Switzerland/Germany), David Moss (USA), Fumi Matsuda, Veza Fernandez, and many others. She was an artist-in-residence in Bacau (Romania) and Cairo (Egypt) and won the City of Zurich's grant in 2009, a studio residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2012, and a grant from the Canton of Zurich's Freiraum program in 2021.
Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Switzerland
The Landis & Gyr foundation awards studio scholarships to Swiss artists and cultural professionals in London, Budapest, Sofia and Zug. Its London-based residency partnership with Acme was established in 1987, and provides six month long work/live opportunities for ten Swiss artists per year. Artists are selected for the programme directly by Landis & Gyr Stiftung and must demonstrate a track record of achievement in their field. Over two hundred visual artists, curators, writers, musicians and composers have benefitted from the programme. Residencies are based in Stepney, E1 and are available to Swiss residents only
For more information visit lg-stiftung.ch.
