Camille Kaiser (b. 1992 in Geneva) is an artist, researcher and cultural worker based in Geneva, Switzerland. She graduated from HEAD-Geneva with a MAFA orientation Critical Curatorial Cybermedia studies in 2016 and has recently completed a Certificate of Advanced Studies in archive science at the University of Bern.

Her artistic practice unfolds through long-term research projects concerned with the entanglement of intimate archives and their relation to institutional archives of a similar place and time. It involves archive-thinking and archive-making as a space for artistic practice through gestures of writing, collecting, assembling and filming. Engaging in a feminist and decolonial perspective of history and memory, her work addresses the politics and aesthetics of the archive, the museum as a political and diplomatic site, and of the artwork/art object as an agent of (post-)colonial tensions. It is presented within installations that integrate film, text, sound, as well as printed images that (re)present and (re)create both real and imagined archival documents. She has carried out her projects in France, South Africa, Switzerland and Algeria, developing research within national archives, regional archives, diplomatic archives, museum archives, community archives and military archives.

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Camille Kaiser’s Deep-Dive into Archival History, Bubblegum Club, June 2024
Camille Kaiser, passé désarchivé, Le Courrier, April 2023
publication small gestures, grand gestures, Verlag für moderne Kunst Vienna, 2023

2025
Ces voix qui m’assiègent… – collective show, Institut français d’Alger
Second impressions, duo show with Jamal Nxedlana, Valentin61 Lausanne

2024
Des Seins à Dessein – collective show, Espace Arlaud Lausanne
La Grande Distribution – collective show, Espace Ruine Genève
Ces voix qui m’assiègent… – collective show, Cité internationale des arts de Paris
Research residency with Pro Helvetia Johannesburg, Johannesburg and Cape Town
Reimagining heritage, archives and museums – collective show, Homecoming Centre Cape Town

2023
Photographies en bord de mer (Alger, 1962) – solo show, Cité internationale des arts de Paris
Sounds on set – sound piece, Display Berlin
Research residency with Ville de Genève and Fondation Simón I. Patiño, Cité internationale des arts de Paris
Bourses de la Ville de Genève 2023 – collective show, Centre d’art contemporain de Genève
Colonial Endurance – collective show, Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam
Love Stories (double trouble) – collective show, Espace 3353 Genève
Les travailleuses de la mer – solo show, FMAC Genève
small gestures, grand gestures – solo show, Aargauer Kunsthaus
small gestures, grand gestures – publication, Verlag für moderne Kunst & Aargauer Kunsthaus

2022
Lucid Dreams – duo show, Tunnel Tunnel Lausanne
Entangled Events – collective show, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen
at.tending – DEARS issue n°4, Zürich
Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner – Special Prize, Swiss art awards Basel
et l’histoire commence ici – solo show, Dunant Museum Heiden

2021
Résidence secondaire – residency and duo show, Display Zürich
it won’t be silence – duo show, Centre d’art Neuchâtel
it almost felt like the voice of a close friend – collective show, Genève
today i left home and – fiction book, Monroe Books, Berlin
Project Atelier – residency, Stiftung BINZ39 Zürich