Tyra Wigg is a performance artist, choreographer, and dancer from Stockholm and based in Basel. Their work explores desires and problems of the sensing body in relation to its cultural, political, and material surroundings. They’re drawn to how fusions of previously separate fields can open the consciousness for new experiences. Drawing on their background in massage therapy and care work, Tyra is interested in how forms of direct and indirect touch can expand our connection with ourselves and each other.
Currently Tyra is investigating relations between aesthetic production and authorship in the dreaming and waking state. The research is taking form in the solo performance More than a Metaphor which is nominated for the Swiss Performance Art Awards 2026.
Wigg’s performances have been presented at venues and festivals such as Kaserne Basel, MDT Stockholm, Les Urbaines, far° Nyon, Joint Adventures Munich, Schinkel Pavillon Berlin, ROXY Birsfelden, Kunsthaus Baselland, Kunsthalle Basel, Museum Tinguely, Weld Stockholm, Shedhalle Zürich, and Dance First, Think Later Geneva.
As a performer and collaborator, Wigg has worked with Gisèle Vienne, Heiner Goebbels, Shu Lea Cheang, Ernestyna Orłowska, Marina Abramović, Inga Gerner Nielsen, Alexandra Pirici, and others. In 2020, Wigg relocated their homebase from Stockholm, Sweden to Basel, Switzerland. In 2023, they completed an MA in Expanded Theatre at Bern University of the Arts (HKB).
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2026 - Part of POLLEN: Cute and itchy protest dance group in Zürich
2026 Artist in Residence at Fundaziun Nairs
2025 Participant in Transmission Impossible at Festival D’Avignon
2023-24 “LAB-artist” in residence at Kaserne Basel
2021-24 Motherboard member of Blasphemic Reading Soirées- a nomadic platform for queerfeminist reading and discussion culture.
2022 Part of the discursive reflection groups for emerging artists at AUA LAB at Auawirleben, Bern, and Watch&Talk at Theaterfestival Basel.
2021 Participant in DanceWeb Scholarship at Impulstanz in Vienna with mentorship from Anne Juren and Frédéric Gies.
2019-20 Artist in residence at SITE in Stockholm.
Photo: Fabienne Bieri