Antoine Simeão Schalk

Curator — Independent Curator

Antoine Simeão Schalk (any pronouns) is a Swiss-Brazilian curator based in Geneva and Berlin, working within the intersection of visual and sonic practices. He has worked as performance curator for FdS – Festival artistique des affects, des genres et des sexualités in Lausanne, a platform to discuss body politics and shifting identities. Bodies as possible sites for political imagination have constituted one of his axis of research, whether in exhibition or in performing art spaces. He has curated projects with the participation of artists such as Davi Pontes, Wallace Ferreira, Young Boy Dancing Group, Aun Helden, Ashkan Sepahvand, Catol Teixeira or Luis Garay. His curatorial projects have unfolded in spaces such as Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Zurich), ii magazine (Rome), La Rada (Locarno), Urgent Paradise (Lausanne), Arsenic (Lausanne), Théâtre Sévelin 36 (Lausanne) or Casa da Escada Colorida (Rio de Janeiro). He is a 2023 recipient of the curatorial research grant by ProHelvetia, a 2023 fellow at Istituto Svizzero in Palermo, Sicily, and a 2024 research fellow at CASTRO - Contemporary Art Studio Rome.