Anna Meschiari, born in 1987 in Ticino, Switzerland, lives and works in Occitania, France, since 2014, when she graduated from the École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués in Vevey. With a degree in Anthropology (Université Jean Jaurès, Toulouse) in 2024, she is also co-director of RIGA (Saint-Pierre-de-Trivisy, Tarn), an associative project offering creative residencies in the field of contemporary art. Her work is based on visual content linked to coding – itself linked to archives, architecture or textiles – which she slides from one medium to another.
Her work and publications have been shown at Club 44, La Chaux-de-Fonds (2024), the Centre de la photographie de Genève (2024), the Bob Calle Documentation Center, Carré d'Art - Musée d'art contemporain de Nimes (2023), and the Musée départemental du Textile de Labastide-Rouairoux (2023), Galerie Mercier & Associés, Paris (2021), Kunsthaus Zürich (2019), Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2019), Fondazione Ratti, Como (2018), Fotomuseum Winterthur and Biennale de la photographie de Mulhouse (2016). In 2023, she joins Documents d'Artistes Occitanie. In 2024, she wins the Medicis Occitanie prize and is selected for a residency at the Villa Médicis in Rome.
Solo shows
2024
Les dialogueur.euse.x.s, Club44, La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH)
Souple, Pamela Artist-run space, Nîmes (FR)
2023
Flying Carpet, centre de documentation Bob Calle, Carré d'Art - Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes (FR)
Fibrilles, Musée Départemental du Textile du Tarn, Labastide-Rouairoux (FR)
2021
Dressing, Blauer Montag, Toulouse (FR)
2019
Open studio, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Studios, Moscow (RU)
2018
pierre-feuille-ciseaux, Espace Lawrence Durrell, Sommières (FR)
AHAH, PAC Aussillon (FR)
2017
A come Arcipelago, Casa Pessina, Ligornetto (CH)
2016
Are We Alone?, Green Hill Gallery, Berlin (DE)
Are We Alone?, Residency, DISPLAY, Berlin (DE)
Are We Alone?, Mulhouse Biennial of Photography, Public Library of Mulhouse (FR)
2013
At Once, Warsaw Photo Days, Galeria 27, Warsaw (PL)
Group shows
2021
Pages Blanches, Galerie Mercier, Paris (FR)
2019
Fly me to the Moon. The Moon landing: 50 years on, Museum der Moderne Salzburg (AT)
Pages Blanches, Nanjing Arts Institute (CN)
Fly me to the Moon. The Moon landing: 50 years on, Kunsthaus Zürich (CH)
2018
Laboratorio Aperto, Asilo Sant'Elia, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como (IT)
Pages Blanches, Galerie La Place, Barcelona (ES)
2017
I was a galactic wienerli, Le Salon, Espace Abstract, Lausanne (CH)
Swiss Art Awards, Hall 3, Messe Basel (CH)
Plat(t)form, Portfolio viewing, Fotomuseum, Winterthur (CH)
2015
5 Jahre, exp12, Berlin (DE)
Trees, Rolla Foundation, Bruzella (CH)
Near at Free, Geneva (CH)
2014
From one place to another…, 6th European Month of Photography, exp12, Berlin (DE)
Archive, with Yann Haeberlin and Simon Rimaz, exp12, Berlin (DE)
The smell of dust, audiovisual performance, Lugano, Florence (FR)
Tokyo Art Book Fair 2014, Tokyo (JP)
Je l'aime en pièces, Diploma show, Espace Doret, Vevey (CH)
exp12&Guests, slideshow, exp12, Berlin (DE)
The smell of dust, audiovisual performance, São Paulo (BR)
Near by Night 7, projection, Lausanne (CH)
2013
Rock Your Dummy Prizes, Le PhotoBookFest, Paris (FR)
Bergen Art Book Fair, Bergen (NO)
Tokyo Art Book Fair 2013, Tokyo (JP)
La nuit des images, slideshow, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (CH)
The Flood Wall I, slideshow, Mulhouse Biennial of Photography, Mulhouse (FR)
Near by night 6, Near guest at exp12, Berlin (DE)
Der Raum dazwischen, Berlin (DE)
HER, Rolla Foundation, Bruzella (CH)
Grants & Nominations
2024
Prix Occitanie Médicis (FR)
2023
Aide à la production, La Région Occitanie (FR)
2019
Aide à la production, La Région Occitanie (FR)
Aide Installation Atelier, DRAC Occitanie (FR)
2018
Grant, UBS Culture Foundation, Zürich (CH)
Work Grant, Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council (CH)
2017
Swiss Art Awards, OFC, Bern (CH)
2016
Révélation livre d'artiste ADAGP - Multiple Art Days, Maison Rouge, Paris (FR)
Production grant, Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council (CH)
Aide Individuelle à la Création (Grant for creation), DRAC Occitanie (FR)
2015
Promotion for aspiring photographers, Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council (CH)
Residencies
2024
Villa Médicis, Rome (IT)
Club44, La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH)
2023
centre de documentation Bob Calle, Carré d'Art - Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes (FR)
2022-23
centre d'art Le Lait, Musée départemental du textile, Tarn (FR)
2020
AFIAC, Revenir au monde, Viterbe (FR)
2019
Garage Studios, Pro Helvetia, Moscow (RU)
2018
How to begin, XXIV CSAV – Artists Research Laboratory, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como (IT)
Collège Gaston Doumergue, Sommières (FR)
2016
DISPLAY, Berlin (DE)
Publications
Flying Carpet, Boabooks, Genève, 2023
Signes sans sens gris pâle presque blanc toujours les mêmes, editorial project by Stefania Meazza, France, 2020
Fly me to the Moon. The Moon landing: 50 years on, Kunsthaus Zürich, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, 2019
How to begin, Fondazione Antonio Ratti & Compagnia, Como, Italy, 2019
Swiss Art Awards 2017, Federal Office of Culture, Bern, Switzerland, 2017
I was a galactic wienerli, exhibition newspaper, Le Salon & Espace Abstract, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2017
A come Arcipelago, exhibition catalogue, Museo d'Arte Mendrisio, Switzerland, 2017
Are We Alone?, Artist's Book, edition of 200, France, 2016
Trees, exhibition catalogue, Rolla Foundation, Bruzella, Switzerland, 2015
Constellations Photographiques, Anne Immelé, Médiapop Editions, Mulhouse, France, 2015
Article 60, N° 3-4-6, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2015
Do Not Walk Outside This Area (Athens), Artist's Book, edition of 30, France, 2014
Atlas, Artist's Book, edition of 10, Switzerland, 2014
Der Greif #7, Five-years-anniversary-issue, Germany, 2013
At Once, Artist's Book, edition of 50, Switzerland, 2013
Her, exhibition catalogue, Rolla Foundation, Bruzella, Switzerland, 2012
Education
2021 - 2024
Bachelor Anthropology, Jean Jaures University, Toulouse (FR)
2012 - 2014
Advanced Studies in Photography, Ecole supérieure d’arts appliqués, Vevey (CH)
2009 - 2012
Communication Design, University of Applied Sciences, HTW, Berlin (DE)
2006 - 2008
Federal VET Diploma in Photography, Ecole d’arts appliqués, Vevey (CH)
Collections
Artothèque du Lot, Cahors (FR)
Artphilein Foundation (LI/CH)
Centre de documentation Bob Calle, Nîmes (FR)
EQ2, Valais (CH)
FRAC Bretagne (FR)
Mulhouse Public Library (FR)
Museum of Boken Relationships, Zagreb (HR)
Rolla Collection, Bruzella (CH)
Swiss National Library, Bern (CH)
Zines of the Zones, Nantes (FR)
Private collections, France, Germany, Switzerland
Collaborations
RIGA, Saint-Pierre-de-Trivisy (FR, since 2021)
Display, Marie DuPasquier, Berlin & Zürich (2024)
FLARE, Photoforum Pasquart, Biel, Searcher in Digital Space (2019)
Spazio Lampo, Chiasso (2017)
exp12/exposure twelve (2010-2016)
Article 60, Lausanne (2015)
Head Cinema, Geneva (2013-2014)
Martin Schick (2013)
Giacomo Hug, London (2012)
Sophiensaele, Berlin (2011)
HAU, Berlin (2011)