Margaux Schwab
Biography
Margaux Schwab (*1989, Switzerland/Mexico) lives and works in Vevey, Switzerland, after spending ten years in Berlin, Germany. Her work explores the ecologies and politics of the living through food and its imaginaries. In 2017, she founded foodculture days, a platform for knowledge sharing, which she has directed ever since. The initiative encompasses research, educational, and editorial projects, as well as a biennial festival in public space.
Schwab holds a Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Cultural Politics from UNIL/EPFL and is a guest lecturer in the Co-Create programme at the Basel Academy of Art and Design, Switzerland. She is currently one of fifteen fellows in the European Socially Engaged Arts Alliance Fellowship.