Hi! I am Alexandra. I use
photography as a tool within my research-led practice, converging documentary
approaches and artistic interpretations.
In my most recent projects, I delve into the intricate entanglements of vegetal and human life. Examining relationships between humans, plants and landscapes, I navigate the emotional and political realms of biodiversity loss, resource management, agriculture, food, and knowledge production.
I develop long-term projects that evolve over time and adapt to different formats and modes of presentation. In recent years I have co-created transdisciplinary spaces for participative experiences and site-specific interventions with a range of artists, practitioners and experts across the fields of art and agriculture with the aim of tasting, listening, learning and sharing together.
In my most recent projects, I delve into the intricate entanglements of vegetal and human life. Examining relationships between humans, plants and landscapes, I navigate the emotional and political realms of biodiversity loss, resource management, agriculture, food, and knowledge production.
I develop long-term projects that evolve over time and adapt to different formats and modes of presentation. In recent years I have co-created transdisciplinary spaces for participative experiences and site-specific interventions with a range of artists, practitioners and experts across the fields of art and agriculture with the aim of tasting, listening, learning and sharing together.
︎︎︎ Co-founder of Institut Plapamco - Plants, People and More Cohabitation, association for artistic projects in political ecology.
︎︎︎ Member of near. Swiss association for contemporary photography.
︎︎︎ Member of near. Swiss association for contemporary photography.
Selected Exhibitions
TBA, w/Seraina Grupp, Farngut, 18. October 2025. Grossaffoltern, Switzerland.
Groupshow: It Was All Fields Once, SEED CARRIERS, curated by NEWROPE/ETHZ, TRACK, 3. - 12. July, 2025.
Brussels, Belgium.
Le goût du futur, w/ Isabelle Weber, Cabane B, 3. - 12. July 2025.
Bern, Switerland.
Groupshow: Ein Garten ist ein Garten ist ein Garten, Nidwaldner Museum Winkelriedhaus, 28. June - 5. October 2025.
Stans, Switzerland.
Spill the beans! + How lika a leaf I am, foodculture days biennial, June 2025.
Vevey, Switzerland.
How like a leaf I am, w/ guests, Photoforum, September - November 2024.
Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.
Le champ de blé planétaire (pilote), foodculture days, 2022-23.
Vevey, Switzerland.
TBA, w/Seraina Grupp, Farngut, 18. October 2025. Grossaffoltern, Switzerland.
Groupshow: It Was All Fields Once, SEED CARRIERS, curated by NEWROPE/ETHZ, TRACK, 3. - 12. July, 2025.
Brussels, Belgium.
Le goût du futur, w/ Isabelle Weber, Cabane B, 3. - 12. July 2025.
Bern, Switerland.
Groupshow: Ein Garten ist ein Garten ist ein Garten, Nidwaldner Museum Winkelriedhaus, 28. June - 5. October 2025.
Stans, Switzerland.
Spill the beans! + How lika a leaf I am, foodculture days biennial, June 2025.
Vevey, Switzerland.
How like a leaf I am, w/ guests, Photoforum, September - November 2024.
Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.
Le champ de blé planétaire (pilote), foodculture days, 2022-23.
Vevey, Switzerland.
Groupshow: Mostra di piante, di storie, di mostre, Villafredda, 2023. Tarcento, Italy.
How like a leaf I am, Aterraterra LAB, 2023. Palermo, Italy.
Groupshow: Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie 2022. Heidelberg, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
How like a leaf I am, Club 44, 2021. La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
Groupshow: Alt +1000 Festival de Photographie, 2021. Prairie Chaubert, Switzerland.
Groupshow: Prix Photoforum 2020. Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.
Groupshow: Verzasca Foto Festival 2020.Sonogno, Switzerland.
Lumix Festival For Young Visual Journalism 2020, Hannover «New Perspectives on Documentary Practices», curated by Iris Sikking (canceled)
Plat(t)from 2020, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
How like a leaf I am, Aterraterra LAB, 2023. Palermo, Italy.
Groupshow: Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie 2022. Heidelberg, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
How like a leaf I am, Club 44, 2021. La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
Groupshow: Alt +1000 Festival de Photographie, 2021. Prairie Chaubert, Switzerland.
Groupshow: Prix Photoforum 2020. Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.
Groupshow: Verzasca Foto Festival 2020.Sonogno, Switzerland.
Lumix Festival For Young Visual Journalism 2020, Hannover «New Perspectives on Documentary Practices», curated by Iris Sikking (canceled)
Plat(t)from 2020, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Interventions + Talks
Du champ à la culture: Savoirs situés, diversité cultivée, Dialog with seed expert Adèle Pautrat (Seeds4All) and farmer Gérald Huber (Bio Vaud/GIREB). foodculture days, Vevey, June 2025.
Petites graines à haut risque : Les OGM 2.0 face à la souveraineté alimentaire, Dialog with climatologist and former National Council for the green Party Valentine Python. foodculture days, Vevey, June 2025.
Experiencing the Planthroposcene, Eventseries (workshops and talks) with Photoforum Pasquart and guests Aterraterra and Botanischer Garten Bern. Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, Fall 2024.
Du champ à la culture: Savoirs situés, diversité cultivée, Dialog with seed expert Adèle Pautrat (Seeds4All) and farmer Gérald Huber (Bio Vaud/GIREB). foodculture days, Vevey, June 2025.
Petites graines à haut risque : Les OGM 2.0 face à la souveraineté alimentaire, Dialog with climatologist and former National Council for the green Party Valentine Python. foodculture days, Vevey, June 2025.
Experiencing the Planthroposcene, Eventseries (workshops and talks) with Photoforum Pasquart and guests Aterraterra and Botanischer Garten Bern. Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, Fall 2024.
Sowing the future: rights and access to seeds interdisciplinary dialogue with guest speakers Dr. Fulya Batur, Dr. Christophe Golay, and Jean-Marc Louvin moderated by Alexandra Baumgartner. foodculture days, Vevey, June 2023.
bread eaters: chapter 1, dialogue and pic nic with wheat breeder Nicole Bischofberger (gzpk) on the experimental wheat field of Alexandra Baumgartner. In collaboration with keinraum artspace, Lucerne, June 2021.
bread eaters: chapter 1, dialogue and pic nic with wheat breeder Nicole Bischofberger (gzpk) on the experimental wheat field of Alexandra Baumgartner. In collaboration with keinraum artspace, Lucerne, June 2021.
Education
MA Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Bern, from Fall 2022.
BA Camera Arts, Photography in the context of art, design, media, and society, Lucerne School of Art and Design, 2019.
Exchange Semester, BA Photography, Royal Academy of Art in the Hague, 2018.
BA Middle Eastern Studies and History, University of Zurich, 2017.
MA Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Bern, from Fall 2022.
BA Camera Arts, Photography in the context of art, design, media, and society, Lucerne School of Art and Design, 2019.
Exchange Semester, BA Photography, Royal Academy of Art in the Hague, 2018.
BA Middle Eastern Studies and History, University of Zurich, 2017.
Awards + Residencies
ON FORESTS Residency, 2024 - 2025
︎︎︎ Istituto Svizzero Roma + Wyss Academy For Nature
Atelier Flex, 2024
︎︎︎ Direktion für Bildung und Kultur, Kanton Zug
Art Residency in Cairo, 2023
︎︎︎ Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
Art Residency in Cairo, Aug. 2021 - Feb. 2022
︎︎︎SKK Art Residency (City of Lucerne)
Förderbeitrag 2021
︎︎︎ Direktion für Bildung und Kultur, Kanton Zug
Promotion of Aspiring Photographers, 2020
︎︎︎ Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
runner-up UNSEEN dummy-award 2019
︎︎︎ UNSEEN Amsterdam
ON FORESTS Residency, 2024 - 2025
︎︎︎ Istituto Svizzero Roma + Wyss Academy For Nature
Atelier Flex, 2024
︎︎︎ Direktion für Bildung und Kultur, Kanton Zug
Art Residency in Cairo, 2023
︎︎︎ Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
Art Residency in Cairo, Aug. 2021 - Feb. 2022
︎︎︎SKK Art Residency (City of Lucerne)
Förderbeitrag 2021
︎︎︎ Direktion für Bildung und Kultur, Kanton Zug
Promotion of Aspiring Photographers, 2020
︎︎︎ Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
runner-up UNSEEN dummy-award 2019
︎︎︎ UNSEEN Amsterdam
Collections
City of Biel, Kanton Zug
Commissions
NZZ, Die Zeit, Neue Luzerner Zeitung, 041 Kulturmagazin
City of Biel, Kanton Zug
Commissions
NZZ, Die Zeit, Neue Luzerner Zeitung, 041 Kulturmagazin