ongoing
selected works

hot spots in a cool place
2025

newspaper, performance, 30’
Postcard picture point, hot off the press. Double-sided. How beautiful we have it here. Chirping alpine meadows masked by the hum of server racks and digital beeps, some cooling fan winds caress your cheeks. Late at night: up and down, up and down, guard the hollow — a simple exercise in patience. A nation puts its faith in the mountains.

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basic mechanics
2023-2024

publication, performative practice



The collective basic mechanics is Maud Gyssels, Isabelle Weber and cris e. emmel, working with words and performance, researching the basic mechanics of “resting”.



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06.2_faule-bunker
2023

video, 11’



This work takes findlings and sightings from high altitudes, dispersed like military missiles, and found in the crevices of alpine rock formations and turns them into a fragmentary collection of traces.

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clouds nest like cysts on the soft tissues of their hosting milieu
2022


multimedia-installation with performance, soundpiece, animated videos (7‘, 3.5‘, 3.5‘) and sculptural elements in silicone, fabric and plexiglas.Your mine-eyes mirror a milieu: a dark site on remote control. A blob of ether, a cloud of confusion, yellow dust sets onto a murky swamp. The granular, hissing, forms a riverbed to flush out data mines’ pixel. Hot spots in a cool place: the datasphere is alive with corporate chunks of imperial extraction. “Dig that bit there, coin!” And in that necrotic foggy zero-energy state, you and I have never been so close.

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bergamot leather scent
2022

text, performanceThe work starts with leather chaps that I’ve found in a vintage store in Brussels. They evoked memories of my grandfather, a blacksmith, and imaginative memories of my grandmother, which I’ve never met, but from whom I’ve inherited my red hair. 

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tears to your ears (you do not have)
2022

5-channel videoinstallation with smartphones (each around 2‘), beeswaxA text in five chapters shown on five smartphones that are held by beeswax fingers. The text speaks of the intimacy between device and user, the materiality of the digital and the network, that is, with its zoomed-in, up-close videos, a glitchy pixel performance.

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How close can I come before your skin starts burning?
2021

performance, video, 13’
The work takes a found, porous object as a starting point for a poetic-materialistic examination of a disrupted environment. Seemingly solid objects burst at the slightest touch in their porousness into the smallest pieces, constantly changing their state of aggregation, always transforming. 

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Ocean Currents
2020

installation, textile print, 3-channel-video, 15’The work takes the ocean as an example to think about changing ecologies, more-than-human coexistence, and past and future modes of aging. It follows three different protagonists: an exhausted, bleached out coral, some singing sirens and an oyster. 

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Much analysis is about how to freeze the present: A granular idea
2019

aluminium, cement, publication, sandbags, steel,video, 52’No above, just endless surface and what lies underneath: From zero it‘s only possible to go further into the negative. Changing into ground view; underneath the rollsurface; the volumes are hidden in the sub-surface. The work looks top down, in direction of conservation and recording moments of the present, at the global ups and downs of landmasses and the idea of the granular. 

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Isabelle Weber
born in Lucerne, CH
lives and works between Brussels, BE and Switzerland.

e-mail
socialsIsabelle Weber's work spans video, CGI and 3D animation, installation, sculpture, performance and text. Her artistic practice explores geopolitical circumstances and the distribution of wealth in relation to raw materials, resource extraction, technical devices and digitality. She is currently working on various projects, including a video installation about the Bread from Twann with Alexandra Baumgartner. One of her current projects, ‘Die Alpen sind hohl’ takes the Réduit national as the starting point for a feminist, anti-nationalist and postcolonial examination of the Swiss ideological belief in the mountains.
She works as a freelance artist and is active with the collectives basic mechanics and office in Brussels.



upcoming
news2026, oct-nov
upcoming residency with office at wpZimmer workspace performing arts, oct-nov, Antwerp (BE)

2026, nov
Le goût du futur, group exhibition Werkbeiträge, akku Emmen, Lucerne (CH)


grants 
residencies
awards

2025
Selective Cultural Funding of Canton Lucerne, work grant for «Le goût du futur» with Alexandra Baumgartner, Lucerne (CH)

2024
participation in Sound Image Culture, platform for the development of audiovisual projects, Brussels (BE)

2024
residency with basic mechanics at the green corridor, Brussels (BE)

2023
Selective Cultural Funding of Canton Lucerne, research grant for «Die Alpen sind hohl», Lucerne (CH)

2023
in:dépendance UCJ ETH Zurich residency, Furka Pass, (CH)

2020
award solo exhibition, Kunstmuseum Olten at JKON, Olten (CH)



exhibition
(selection) 2025    
Le goût de futur, exhibition with Alexandra Baumgartner, cabane B, Bümpliz, Bern (CH)

2025    
I’m very into you too with office, SVĚTOVA 1, Prague (CZ)

2025    
hot spots in a cool place, Performance  at migma Performancetage, Bell-Areal, Kriens (CH)

2023    
Basic Mechanics, performativ exhibition-launch of a self-published booklet with Maud Gyssels and cris e. emmel, Spare Wheel, Brussels (BE)

2023    
clouds nest like cysts on the soft tissues of their hosting milieu, group exhibition achtmal neu plus zweimal paris, B74 Raum für Kunst, Lucerne (CH)

2022    
bergamot leather scent as audio piece, laverie sentimentale, Arnhem (NL)

2022    
Listening Group N°35, video piece with Jan-Pieter ‘t Hart, with OUTLINE-collective, A grey space in the middle, Den Haag (NL)

2022    
tears to your ears (you do not have), group exhibition Displays Of Affection with Eisenbricht, attheoff.space, Zürich (CH)

2022    
Ocean Currents in Akwatik, The One Minutes, Premiere im Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (NL) and at KINEMASTIK International Short Film Festival, Malta (MT)

2021    
Ocean Currents, solo exhibition, Dienstraum Kunstmuseum Olten, Olten (CH)

2020      
Much analysis is about how to freeze the present: A granular idea, JKON, Olten (CH)





collective
curation
other 2020-2024
KEINRAUM: curator, production. KEINRAUM  is currently in residence ath Schlossallee Munich with Büro Gradezza. Check out our archive: keinraum.ch

2023-today
basic Mechanics: Collective with cris e. emmel and Maud Gyssels, researching the basic mechanics of “rest/resting” with performance, text, installation and self-publishing.

2024-today
office: queer collective that works and organizes workshops, bars, publications and performances around dyke*bars. First iteration 2024 „Office Crush“ at au JUS, Brussels, second iteration 2024-2025 on invitation of the Goethe Institut Brüssel on the retrospective of Ulrike Ottinger at CINEMATEK Brussels, with „Freak City“ 2025 at Les Grands Carmes. „I’m very into you too“ at kvír vědomostí Festival of Queer Knowledge, SVĚTOVA 1 Prague in June 2025. 2026 at KASKO Basel during Luststreifen Festival.



Access full CV in German.
I work on graphic design and visual identities for various things such as restaurants, publications or the nightlife collective dauwtrip.

I am open for bigger or smaller collaboration and commissions in the various fields I work in. Happy if you reach out :)



               











Die Alpen sind hohl
2023-ongoing

research, performance, sculpture, film/video
The Alps are hollow, in their cavities echoes a rotting ideology. At the heart of this project is the question of the Swiss belief in the mountains: as it upholds both a physical and mental barrier, the construction of national identity and fictitious common origin, and of a flourishing economy.



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Le goût du futur
2023-ongoing

artistic research, collaboration, video, installation
Le goût du futur is an ongoing artistic research project by Alexandra Baumgartner and Isabelle Weber which explores the nature of time through an archaeological artifact from the Neolithic period – the Bread of Twann – and questions the conventional understanding of foodstuffs as inanimate goods.



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watch bird
ongoing

artistic research, video, text,
installation
A research on urban pigeons, representative architecture, surveillance, bird's-eye view and collective unrest.





Schmitte, bergamot leather scent
ongoingAn attempt on memory: heavy cigar smoke, steel and dust. decade old dust. some half emptied pots of hoof balm. old beer bottles lined up on top of the locker, their caps arranged in a heart shape around the calendar model. Draft horses, leather harnesses, and horseshoes of various sizes, more or less neatly arranged by the name of the horse: Mandy, Sandal, Perama, Red Ray, Smockey Tack, Bob Royal, Nuages.




office
2024-ongoing
dyke* bar, workshops, audio pieces, publications, installation of our love-letter archive


office is a bureau full of dykes* + their crushes and friends, appearing in different places in Brussels and elsewhere. Inspired by past and present lesbian bars, it is a space for queer and trans people to exchange, talk, flirt, write, watch movies and dance together. office are mara ittel, isa weber, cris e. fidelis, ros del olmo and dagmar dirkx.

upcoming:

office will be in Basel end of August, Luststreifen x KASKO Basel

office will be in a 5-week residency at wpzimmer, Antwerp in October/November 2026



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dauwtrip
CGI images, graphic design, visual digital identity for the nightlife collective dauwtrip.



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© Isabelle Weber 2026