Incorporating drawing, video, sculpture, sound and installation, Hunter Longe's (*1985 in Oakland, California, US, lives and works in Geneva) artworks are profoundly influenced by the properties and transformations of the materials that he uses. They often feature actual elements from the distant past yet anachronistically evoke possible futures and temporal slips through, their unusual material combinations and their speculative character. By appropriating stories and apparatuses from the sciences and conflating them with the oneiric, esoteric and counter-cultural, his work questions distinctions between the living and the non-living and alludes to an underlying sentience and sensitivity that exceed the human realm.
Hunter Longe has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts, San Francisco, and a Master of Fine Arts from Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam. Recent solo and duo exhibitions have been at Kunstraum Memphis, Linz (2026); SALTS, Basel (2025); 427, Riga (2024); Kunsthaus Langenthal (2023); Last Tango, Zurich (2023); Sonnenstube, Lugano (20230; Et al. Gallery, San Francisco (2018); LambdaLambdaLambda, Pristina (2017); Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen (2017). His work has been included in group exhibitions at Bex Art Triennial, Bex (2026); MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (2025); Lateral, Rome (2025); Centre d’art de Neuchâtel (2024); Soft Opening, London (2024); Istituto Svizzero, Rome (2022); Krone Couronne, Biel/ Bienne (2022); Smallville, Neuchâtel (2021); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (2021); Musée Cantonal de Géologie, Lausanne (2019).
In 2021, a book of his writing and drawings titled DreamOre was published by Coda Press, and he was a winner of the Swiss Art Awards. In 2024-25 he was a fellow at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome.
Aio Frei (*1982, Zürich) is a non-binary sound artist, relational listener, sonic community organizer, collaborator, sonic researcher, record store co-operator, graphic designer, experimental, stone enthusiast and co-founder of oor records/oor saloon. Their practice consists of listening workshops, research-based listening performances, essayistic djing, semi-modular synthesis, various forms of microphony and free electroacoustic improvisation. Recent exhibitions and performances have been at Haus fur Kunst Uri (2026); Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (2025); Kunstverein Braunschweig (2024) Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerpen (2022); Motel Campo, Genève (2022); Klang Moor Schopfe Festival, Gais (2021); Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2019); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2017).
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","description_long":"8 :00 pm - Sound performance by Janiv Oron
Basel-based artist and composer Janiv Oron will present a sound performance in response to the collaborative sound installation created with Hunter Longe for his Halle Nord exhibition. Incorporating ambient sounds captured around Halle Nord with an electromagnetic field recorder, a hydrophone, and a geophone, the performance blends these ethereal sounds, tuned and stretched, with compositions of oscillating frequencies.
8 :45 pm - Sound performance by Aio Frei and Hunter Longe
Hunter Longe and Zurich-based sound artist Aio Frei will present a new adaptation of their collaboration Seemingly Solid State, inspired by the formation of limestone, its living underwater origins, its use in concrete, and its dissolution. Various stones, fossils, sediments, and chemical reactions are transposed into a multilayered sound performance.
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