Tensions and theatricality take centre stage in the projects curated for STAGE Bregenz by internationally acclaimed curators Hana Ostan-Ožbolt-Haas (Slovenia) and Camille Regli (Switzerland). They have selected galleries and artists for two special curated sections.

Camille Regli is an independent curator. She’s the co-founder and co-director of KRONE COURONNE, a centre for contemporary art in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, and a member of the curatorial group Collectif Détente. She has collaborated with institutions such as Kunsthaus Biel/Centre d‘art Bienne, FMAC (Collection d’art contemporain Ville de Genève), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and Centre d‘art contemporain Genève. Her curated section “Spectāre” addresses the inherent theatricality of STAGE Bregenz’s setting, revealing the mechanisms that shape, activate and perform space. Bringing together a selection of artists who come into dialogue with the notion of performativity—through language, sound, film, painting, sculpture, props, and characters— Spectāre provokes questions on the performative dimensions of objects, bodies and space, and blurs the lines between the observer and the observed.