The Artist | Moni Wespi

Choreographer / Visual Artist / Designer (CH&BE)

MONI WESPI is a international choreographer, art director and visual designer. In her choreographic practice, she creates images through radical scenographic choices, combined with her movement research. In 2007, Wespi founded the company LOUTOP, with which she created an entirely new and innovative stage project, that was touring internationally 2007-2014 (250 shows). In 2010 Monika Wespi was awarded the “GRANT” award of Zürich for her work with Loutop. In 2011 she joined the collective “Asphalt Piloten”, an artistic open cell and award-winning company of unbridled artists from different artistic and geographic backgrounds.

Since 2014 she enlargened her artistic career with international collaborations. The choregrapic visualart project MOVING PORTRAIT was born in a collaboration with the videoartist Lucia Gerhardt. Presented and exposed as videoinstallations. Since 2019 the Project starts taking performativ and interactive forms, where audience takes the place of the performer such as MOVING BLING and STEP IN SET and SLOWED LANDSCAPES. Moni Wespi is working from a multidisciplinary approach, elaborating visual concepts for performers, musicians, fashiondesigners and participates on the creation and definition of their visual language/identity, developing costumes/set design and support for videos, photographs and stage projects.

«Mich interessiert die erlebbare, tragbare und begehbare Kunst, die erlebt werden kann und etwas im Betrachter auslöst
und im öffentlichen Raum für alle ist», hält sie fest. Dass diese Kunst für sie auch sozial integrativ sein muss ist, hat sie
bereits in Belgien gezeigt, wo sie Serien in Altersheimen, mit Jugendlichen aus schwierigen Quartieren und intergenerationelle
Porträts gestaltete. In Belgien sei das Förderungssystem für Kunst allgemein und für Kunst mit sozialem Fokus
sehr weit entwickelt, erklärt sie.
«Mein Ziel ist es, nebst meinen visuellen Projekten, in den kommenden Jahren entsprechend auch hier Kunstprojekte in
soziale Institutionen aufzubauen.”
Maja Höhneisen aus meinem Interview aus der Südostschweiz 18.2.2025

Moni Wespi is artist associate at Plusieurs for advising and preproduction support.