The event is aimed at the CERN community and CERN Alumni and Retirees, therefore physical attendance will require having a valid CERN access card.
Arts at CERN Talk series - Meet the artists
Arts at CERN is delighted to invite you to the second edition of the Meet the Artists Talk Series, organised in collaboration with the CERN Library.
This event offers a unique opportunity to discover the work of artists visiting and residing at CERN, inviting members of the CERN community to explore, question, and critically engage with the artists’ practices and projects, and the ways in which these are informed by CERN’s research and scientific community.
Monika Emmanuelle Kazi is a Geneva-based French-Congolese artist selected for the two-month Resonance residency programme at CERN. The programme invites artists based in Geneva to expand their practice through engagement with physics and meaningful dialogue with CERN’s scientists, engineers, and staff.
During her residency, Kazi will develop Crystalline Memories, a project that explores the relationship between scientific research, diasporic memory, and mythological imaginaries through glass installations and artist-book making. Developed in dialogue with researchers and experiments at CERN, it reflects on the construction of knowledge, perceptions of the future, and the fragile, transformative nature of memory.
Resonance is a partnership framework between CERN, the City of Geneva and the Republic and Canton of Geneva for 2024-2027.
Nanna Debois Buhl will return to CERN as a Guest Artist from 8 to 15 June, building on a previous residency in 2024.
Nanna Debois Buhl will present two research-based projects that form part of her ongoing research at CERN. Through advanced imaging technologies, one project examines the overlooked ecologies of CERN’s landscape, exploring relationships between living matter, technology, and quantum realities. The other draws on photographic experimentation, historical alchemy, and particle physics – particularly the ALICE experiment – to investigate transformation, material processes, and the visualisation of phenomena that often remain unseen.
The discussion will be moderated by Giulia Bini, Head of Arts at CERN.
We look forward to welcoming you to this opportunity to take part in an open dialogue and reflection at the crossroads of artistic research and scientific enquiry!
A light apéro will be offered at the end of the talk.
Read more:
Resonance: https://arts.cern/resonance/
Monika Emmanuelle Kazi - Resonance announcement: https://arts.cern/monika-emmanuelle-kazi-selected-for-the-second-edition-of-the-resonance-residency/
Nanna Debois Buhl: https://arts.cern/artist/nanna-debois-buhl/; https://arts.cern/nanna-debois-buhls-atmospheric-omens-artistic-speculations-on-climate-futures/
Artist Biographies:
Monika Emmanuelle Kazi, 1991, France
Monika Emmanuelle Kazi is a Geneva-based French-Congolese artist whose practice combines installation, video, performance, and writing. Her work explores memory, domestic space, heritage, and emotion through objects, family archives, and research-based environments she describes as “iso-objects.” Moving between documentary and fiction, she connects intimate personal narratives with broader social and global histories.
Winner of the Kiefer-Hablitzel Art Prize (2021) and the Bally Artist Award (2024), she has exhibited internationally in institutions such as Palais de Tokyo, MASI Lugano, and Kunsthalle Friart. In 2026, she was selected for the second edition of the Resonance residency at Arts at CERN.
Nanna Debois Buhl, 1975, Denmark
Nanna Debois Buhl is a Danish conceptual visual artist working across photography, weaving, installation, film, books, and algorithm-based works. Her practice connects science, technology, and art to explore relationships between micro and macro systems, such as plants, particles, clouds, and digital memory. She combines historical and contemporary technologies to create speculative narratives and alternative histories, often focusing on how knowledge and perception are constructed.
Educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (MFA, PhD) and trained at the Whitney Independent Study Program, she has exhibited internationally at major museums and biennials, and her work is included in significant public and institutional collections.