Resident

Marina Skalova
From 28 October to 16 December 2020

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Biography

Marina Skalova is a poet, translator, and playwright. Born in Moscow, she studied philosophy in Paris and in Berlin before settling in Switzerland in 2013, where she earned a degree from Bern University of the Arts HKB. She is the author of the bilingual collection Atemnot (souffle court) (Cheyne, 2016), the musical, poetic and political text Exploration du flux (Seuil, 2018), and the play La chute des comètes et des cosmonautes (L’Arche, 2019), which has been performed in Geneva, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna.