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17 projects

Hägendorf 2100 · Primarschule Hägendorf

Collaborate · Community mural

Hägendorf 2100

What will our village look like in 2100? Around 250 pupils of Hägendorf primary school imagined its future — and painted it together as a 6 × 8 m mural in their school.

2026Realised
Hägendorf 2100 — Aldgate Edition · Toynbee Hall, London

Collaborate · Public projection

Hägendorf 2100 — Aldgate Edition

A site-specific public projection outside Toynbee Hall in East London: the participatory utopian mural of 250 Swiss village children, translated into an urban context — part of Backyard Biennial 2026.

2026Realised
Imagine the Future of East London · street exploration

Collaborate · Workshop

Imagine the Future of East London

An evening workshop at Whitechapel Gallery: participants take on roles, explore the streets of Aldgate and invent — then disrupt — utopias for East London. Open to all, wacky ideas welcome.

2026Realised
melt dome olten · Olten, CH

Create · Social sculpture

melt dome olten

A temporary dome on Olten’s Platz der Begegnung: three and a half weeks of readings, concerts, workshops, discussions and participatory theatre with around forty invited guests — free to all, in public space.

2024 — ongoingActive
Leuchtzug Zukunft · Ittigen → Bantigen, Bern

Create · Light procession

Leuchtzug Zukunft

Thirty people carry a glowing advertising balloon from Ittigen to Bantigen near Bern — a light procession, inspired by Sisyphus, about the shared effort of shaping the future.

2025Realised
Ursprung · Neubad, Lucerne, CH

Create · Mural

Ursprung

108 circles in 108 hand-mixed blue-green tones on the 15 × 12 m wall of the Neubad in Lucerne — painted together with 27 volunteers who answered an open call.

2022Realised
Mitte · Piz Uter, Zuoz, CH

Create · Light installation

Mitte

A glowing light body on the 2,907 m summit of Piz Uter, pulsing every night from July to October — carried up and down the mountain by volunteers.

2022Realised
Big Swing · Lucerne, CH

Create · Interactive installation

Big Swing

A swing for seven: people of all ages can only reach the ceiling if they swing together.

2023Realised
Sprossen · Steinhausen, Zug, CH

Create · Participatory installation

Sprossen

Visitors burn prayers, wishes and blessings into wooden stakes and drive them into the ground of Steinhausen — where they will slowly turn into soil.

2024Realised
Slow Walking · Zurich, CH

Collaborate · Performance

Slow Walking

Ten minutes, one narrow lane, no words: a group moving as slowly as possible through Zurich — a gentle disruption of the city's rhythm.

2023Realised
Love Truck · Viscosistadt, Emmenbrücke, CH

Collaborate · Action

Love Truck

An old Saurer military truck, painted with a LOVE flag by a group of art students and turned into a rolling manifesto — with 1970s music on board.

2020Realised
5 Tage einfach leben · Plaffeien, CH

Collaborate · Social experiment

5 Tage einfach leben

Five strangers, found with a wooden sign at Swiss train stations, spent five days together in an alpine hut in midwinter — simply being and living.

2021Realised
One · Emmenbrücke, CH

Create · Light installation

One

A pulsing light body, an OM tone at 432 Hz and meditations on Persian carpets — during which the light followed the artist's heartbeat.

2022Realised
Vision · Olten, CH

Create · Works on paper

Vision

Four pastel works, 150 × 150 cm each, based on images that appeared during sunset meditations in the forest.

2020Realised
© 2026 Studio Portmann — Yannick PortmannLondon · OltenBuilt in real space