LAB Artists

Alma Toaspern is a choreographer, dancer, and musician. In 2024, she held a choreographic residency at Danish Dance Theater in Copenhagen and was selected as a pitching artist at the German Dance Platform. She has worked internationally with artists such as Tim Etchells & Vlatka Horvat, Ioannis Mandafounis, Trajal Harrell, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Tilman O’Donnell, Bobbi Jene, Claire Vivianne Sobottke, and with institutions like the Royal Danish Orchestra and Sinfonieorchester Basel. Together with Christophe Wavelet, she co-developed and performed in a large-scale reconstruction of Oskar Schlemmer’s works, shown at venues including CND Paris, Beirut Art Center, and PACT Zollverein.

Her work often explores the dissolution of boundaries between artistic disciplines. She is currently focused on the embodied relationship between movement and sound. In 2020, she co-founded the interdisciplinary company toaspern|moeller with composer Mathias Monrad Møller, creating works at the intersection of dance and music - (co-) produced and funded in Switzerland, Germany and Denmark.

From 2018 to 2022, Alma was a core member of Corpus as part of the Royal Danish Ballet. Between 2023 and 2025, she is a guest artist at Ballett Basel and Danish Dance Theater.

She studied contemporary and classical dance in Frankfurt/Main and completed the Research Cycle at P.A.R.T.S. Brussels in 2014. 

After studying psychology and art history at the University of Bern (2014), Julian Vogel specialized in the discipline of diabolo at the Academy of Circus and Performance Art in Tilburg, from which he graduated in 2019. Since then, he has been working on CHINA SERIES, a collection of performances, installations, and videos centred around the diabolo, which he crafts himself from ceramic. With this interdisciplinary project at the crossroads of circus, performance, and visual arts, he was a laureate of Circus Next 2020/2021.

Based in Basel, Julian Vogel is involved in various European artistic projects as an author, performer, producer, or sound designer. He co-founded the company Trottvoir (2012) and KLUB GIRKO (2017), with which he created several works. He has also collaborated with Compagnie sh. and Panama Pictures, where he is also associated artist since 2021. In 2023, he founded his own company, Cie. unlisted.

In 2024, Les SUBS in Lyon commissioned him to create their summer scenography: CRESCENDO, a monumental 9 meter high and 70 meter long artwork made up of a hundred ceramic tubes. That same year, Julian Vogel created CERAMIC CIRCUS, a solo performance where circus and ceramics collide. As part of this creation, he developed a close collaboration with porcelain manufacturer REVOL, which is committed to producing and recycling the plates used in the show. The projects, CERAMIC CIRCUS and CHINA SERIES, are currently touring in Switzerland and across Europe.

Natascha Moschini is a performer and dance artist whose work engages with the ethical, poetic, and political dimensions of the human body. She explores how societal power structures manifest in and through the body, rendering (in)visible forms of dependency physically perceptible. Her practice—grounded in movement, spatial intervention, and conceptual inquiry—questions systems of inequality and unfolds at the intersection of performance, drawing, and interdisciplinary research.Moschini develops choreographic and dramaturgical forms that critically examine the role of the body in society. Her work combines keen observation with a nuanced sensitivity to interpersonal tensions.

In 2022, she received a development grant from the Performing Arts Committee of Basel-Landschaft and Basel-Stadt, and launched a collaborative research project exploring dramaturgies of fear.

Moschini participated in the “danse et dramaturgie” program and the “handle with care” laboratory within the Swiss theater network. She was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude (2016) and an Associated Artist at Dampfzentrale Bern (2020/21). Recent residencies include La Ma Residency (Italy), Studio Meridional (France), and Raumstation (Germany). In 2024, she received a work grant from the Landis & Gyr Foundation.

Pat Homse was worn in La Pampa, Argentina. They developed an early interest in visual arts. Despite facing economic challenges, they honed their skills through independent workshops before pursuing formal studies at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella under Professor Inés Katzenstein. In 2021, Homse received a scholarship to study at the Institute Art Gender Nature (IAGN) at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel FHNW, graduating with an MFA in 2023. They concurrently began a BA in Arts and Design Education at IADE within the same institution. Their artistic practice spans sculpture, performance, painting, video, and drawing, engaging with decolonial and queer theory while critically examining western art history. By analyzing identity and societal constructs, their work seeks to challenge historical power dynamics and advocate for greater inclusivity and diversity in art.

Her practice circles around listening. Around multi-sensory listening, while embracing interspecies kinship, ecological and historical inquiry and inner perception in relation to collectivity. She creates for public spaces, or work shown in the context of visual arts or in music and theatre venues where she stages carefully researched environments to provoke interactions, blurs and unexpected intersections in auditory encounters.

Rahel collaborates with various artists, researchers and communities, including the Japanese sound artist Tomoko Hojo and the German director Sylvi Kretzschmar. Her work has recently been shown at Oto Museum Zurich (2024), Ocean Space Venice (2023), Festival Klang Moor Schopfe (2023) and Komaki City Library Japan (2022). She released sound works with Nonclassical UK, Dasa Tapes GR, and Line Sound Art Editions L.A.

During her LAB residency she researches around underwater sound, holding your breath, sonic resistance, oxygen, plant photosynthesis, membranes and porosity and invites to join her through workshops, open trainings and listening sessions.