Axelle Stiefel

weaves connections across organizations, navigating within and beyond cultural infrastructures. Her research addresses impermanence through the lens of a textile metaphorology, tiding together diverse media. She extends her practice to concept development, design, and consultancy.

She is a founding member of several collaborative initiatives, including the editorial project artist network theory; the collective calling the operator; and vorstellen.network, a performative platform for artist’s exchange.

Recently, she served as an embedded artist and co-curator alongside the group Annexe for the Swiss Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. She is currently contributing artistic expertise to CHUV’s PENbank project, supporting the development of mediation processes that foster a shift in the perception of doctors’ work and lives.

▮iembedded artist projects

Swiss Pavilion exhibition at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale

eflux announcement

eflux editorial phantasma

pro helvetia announcement

PENbank by the Psychiatric Liaison Service of Lausanne University Hospital CHUV

penbank

▮ exhibitions

2022

fantasma

salle crosnier

bern

2020

for

milieu

bern

2019

dépendance de l’air

riverside

bern

2017

das herz

forde

genève

▮ network

artist network theory

Colophon

graphic design by studio daniel rother

typeface adjustments by abc dinamo

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Axelle Stiefel

weaves connections across organizations, navigating within and beyond cultural infrastructures. Her research addresses impermanence through the lens of a textile metaphorology, tiding together diverse media. She extends her practice to concept development, design, and consultancy.

She is a founding member of several collaborative initiatives, including the editorial project artist network theory; the collective calling the operator; and vorstellen.network, a performative platform for artist’s exchange.

Recently, she served as an embedded artist and co-curator alongside the group Annexe for the Swiss Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. She is currently contributing artistic expertise to CHUV’s PENbank project, supporting the development of mediation processes that foster a shift in the perception of doctors’ work and lives.

▮iembedded artist project

Swiss Pavilion exhibition at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale

eflux announcement

eflux editorial phantasma

pro helvetia announcement

PENbank by the Psychiatric Liaison Service of Lausanne University Hospital CHUV

penbank

▮iexhibition

2022

fantasma

salle crosnier

bern

2020

for

milieu

bern

2019

dépendance de l’air

riverside

bern

2017

das herz

forde

genève

▮inetwork

artist network theory

colophon

graphic design by studio daniel rother

typeface adjustments by abc dinamo