We are delighted to cordially invite you to our Open Studios. Our Open Studio will take place at the same time as Mesh festival.

Helen Macdonald (literature, United Kingdom) is the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk, Vesper Flights, and Prophet (co-written with Sin Blanché), and is currently Writer-in-Residence at Atelier Mondial in collaboration with Literaturhaus Basel. Writing across memoir, essays, poetry, and speculative fiction, they explore themes of memory, grief, longing, and our relationship with the natural world. Birds, landscapes, and the lives of animals feature prominently in their work, alongside deeply human questions of loss and belonging. We are thrilled to welcome Helen and invite you to to meet them and engage in conversation about their books, their artistic process, and the stories that inspire their writing.

Lorena Solís Bravo (visual art, Peru/Netherlands) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work moves fluidly between video, sculpture, ceramics, installation, and artistic research. Drawing on queer ecology, speculative storytelling, and close observation of the more-than-human world, she creates poetic environments in which bodies, landscapes, technologies, plants, insects, and memories become deeply entangled. Her practice explores identity not as something fixed, but as a constantly transforming process shaped by relationships, exchanges, and acts of coexistence. Through evocative imagery and carefully crafted material encounters, Solís Bravo invites viewers into worlds where boundaries between human and non-human, fact and fiction, intimacy and transformation begin to dissolve, opening up new ways of imagining how we live together on a changing planet.

When: Thursday, 15 October, 4 - 8pm
Where: Atelier Mondial, Freilager-Platz 9, 4142 Münchenstein

Opening hours: 16.00

Location: Freilager-platz 9