Tyra Wigg is a Basel-based performance artist and choreographer whose work explores desires and problems of the sensing body in relation to its cultural, political, and material surroundings. Drawing on their background in massage therapy and care work, Tyra makes performances that center the supporting relations that are needed to hold complexity.
Currently Tyra is investigating the temporality of a so-called failed performance and dissects the psychological paradox of exposure. The research is taking form in the performance PERFORMANCE which is nominated for the Swiss Performance Art Awards 2026.
Tyra 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, Tyra 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