Artist Conversation with Nicole L’Huillier and Nina Emge – on Listening

Venue: Exhibition


On the occasion of her exhibition Canción de Amor, Nicole L’Huillier invites artist Nina Emge to join her in conversation. The conversation will be moderated by curator of the exhibition Yasmin Naderi Afschar.

Connected through a longstanding artistic exchange and friendship, the two artists will reflect on their shared interests in sound, listening, resonance and collective forms of experience. The conversation will explore their artistic practice, focusing on questions of vibration, embodiment, technology and alternative forms of sensing and connection.

Through a dialogue between two artists whose practices engage deeply with sound and listening, the conversation will consider how artistic processes can expand our understanding of environments, relationships and forms of communication. Together, L’Huillier and Emge will discuss the ways in which artistic works can create spaces for encounter, resonance and transformation.

Nicole L’Huillier (born in 1985 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in Berlin) is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher working at the intersection of art, science and technology. Her work encompasses installations, sound and vibration sculptures, performances and experimental compositions. She studied architecture at the Universidad de Chile and was awarded her PhD in 2022 at the MIT Media Lab. Her honours include the MIT Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts and a fellowship from the DAAD’s Berlin Artists’ Programme. Her works have been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale (2024), the Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2025), the Bienal do Mercosul (2025), the Kunsthalle Bern and the Ming Contemporary Art Museum in Shanghai. She conducts research and teaches at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.

Nina Emge (*1995, Zurich) is a Zurich-based artist who reflects on the social dimensions of sound, voice, silence and listening practices. At the heart of Emge's work are themes such as decentralization, collaborative working methods and redistribution. This can be seen in her installations and drawings, which reflect her research and archival work, as well as in the production processes of her artworks. Emge is an active member of the Transnational Sound Initiative. Emge's work has been exhibited at the Biennale Son, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Lagos Biennale, Kunsthaus Zürich, WAF Vienna, Kunsthalle Zürich, Kunsthalle Bern, Goethe-Institute Paris, La Loge Brussels, Istituto Svizzero Rome, Istituto Svizzero Palermo, Halle für Kunst in Lüneburg, Frac Bretagne + Centre culturel suisse de Paris, Uferhalle Berlin, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Helmhaus Zürich and other national and international institutions. Emge is part of the Art in Space and Time chair at ETH Zurich.

• Language: English
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