Bérénice Gaça Courtin, a multimedia artist originally from Paris, divides her time between Geneva and Paris. After obtaining a Master’s degree in Contemporary Applied Arts from the Massana School in Barcelona and studying Visual Arts in Geneva at the HEAD School, she specialised in textile arts, audiovisual arts and performance.
For the past four years, she has been researching the history of her grandfather, Kazimierz Gaca, a Polish resistance fighter during the Second World War who worked with the ENIGMA machine.
She is interested in all forms of resistance and, through her art, weaves a fabric in which hidden codes evoke encrypted messages, drawing a parallel between the digital Jacquard loom and the ENIGMA machine, pioneers of the computer.
She directed an experimental film performance on this subject in collaboration with other artists, which was presented at the La Alternativa festival at the CCCB in Barcelona. In 2023, she created an installation for the Centre Pompidou in Metz, exhibited in the Capsule du Musée, as well as at the Octobre Numérique festival in Arles.
She is currently working on a project combining traditional techniques and new technologies, which was exhibited at Milan Design Week in April 2024 and at the Fabienne Levy Gallery in Lausanne, Switzerland, as part of a group exhibition. In 2025, she participated in a group exhibition at the Kunsthalle in Trier entitled Resistance through Textile Art.
https://www.berenicecourtin.com
Conference Speaker (Sheffield)
Israac, Sheffield