Artist Residency

Since March 2025, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum has been hosting an artist-in-residence programme in its Atelier. This artist-in-residence programme forms part of the Prix Art Humanité. This prize, organised in collaboration with HEAD – Geneva, the ICRC and the Geneva Red Cross, is awarded annually to graduates of HEAD whose work explores the links between artistic creation and humanitarian issues. Designed as a space for experimentation and dialogue, the residency offers artists an environment conducive to research and creation, allowing them to develop and bring new works to life.

Each year, the residency emphasises cultural participation through the co-creation with the public of a work that echoes the Museum’s core question: How does humanitarian action affect us all, here and now?

About the artists

Zahrasadat Hakim

In her work, Zahrasadat Hakim explores the themes of memory, displacement and dreams, shaped by her experience as a migrant woman from Iraq, born in Iran. Her art addresses issues of belonging, identity, care and collective healing, drawing inspiration from personal and shared narratives. By blurring the boundary between reality and imagination, Zahrasadat uses performance, sculpture, ceramics, textiles and video to create immersive spaces. Care – both for oneself and for others – lies at the heart of her practice, which she regards as a tool for empathy and connection. Inspired by the cycles of nature, she reflects on resilience and mutualism, using organic or recycled materials to explore time, migration and sustainability. Based in Geneva, she continues to develop her multidisciplinary practice.

Marc-Arthur Sohna

Winner of the 11th Prix Art Humanité, Marc-Arthur Sohna is a Franco-Cameroonian designer and artist, a graduate of the HEAD - Genève, amongst other institutions.

His work draws inspiration from African mythology and folktales, which he blends with science fiction and popular culture to create alternative worlds. Through installations and performances, he brings to life characters from other worlds, bearing new narratives.

By reinterpreting myths through a decolonial lens, Marc-Arthur Sohna examines our present and the place of marginalised identities. For him, storytelling is a powerful act: a means of resistance, of imagining alternative futures and of giving a voice back to those who have been silenced.

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