A network of art houses

ArtHouse Circuit

A project for an open network of lived-in art houses: places where art, even before it is exhibited, is lived.

Lived-in art houses are places where contemporary art becomes part of everyday life and the home opens up to meet the public.

Here art is met at the scale of a room, in the light of a window, beside everyday objects. Visitors are welcomed as guests and can approach the works through conversation with those who live in and run the house. A way of inhabiting art built on closeness, hospitality and time.

The project

On 12 November 2026 Nellimya Arthouse launched ArtHouse Circuit, a project to connect lived-in art houses in Switzerland and beyond.

The invitation is addressed to places that host contemporary art exhibitions and, according to their own calling, artist residencies, workshops and encounters.

In this first phase we are identifying like-minded houses to contact personally. The aim is to get to know one another and to build relationships between those who live in the houses and run their activities, the artists who spend time there and their respective audiences.

The circuit will take shape through these encounters and the first collaborations.

What could grow from it

Every art house has its own identity: a history, a rhythm, a way of welcoming people. Collaborations will grow out of dialogue, respecting each house’s autonomy and possibilities.

With each house, we will discover together what kind of relationship makes sense to build. Some possibilities:

• introducing the artists each house welcomes to the audiences of the others;
• hosting an artist or a project from another house, for an exhibition, a residency, a workshop or an encounter;
• telling the stories of the houses and their activities on the Nellimya website and in its Journal, helping them become known beyond their own region;
• imagining projects, exchanges and routes together between houses in different places.

And what we cannot yet imagine, we will discover by talking.

The houses in the circuit

Here we will present the houses that choose to take part in the circuit: their history, their activities and how to get to know them.

The page will grow together with the relationships and shared projects.