Maya Schweizer, Before the Rehearsal, 2009, video still. Courtesy the artist.
Maya Schweizer is an artist and filmmaker. Her work has explored themes of immigration, integration and cultural difference in Europe and North Africa. Her film, La Corsa de Venditore, 2008, is about Senegalese street sellers in Florence.
Maya Schweizer was born in France but lives and works in Berlin. She has participated in exhibitions internationally including Of Other Spaces at the Bureau for Open Culture, Columbus, Ohio, USA, (2009) Magellanic Cloud at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2007), Storylines at the Kunstraum Munich and the Kunstverein Göttingen (2006) and she was awarded the Prize of the German Programme at the Oberhausen Film Festival Oberhausen (2006).