Joseph Baan (b. 1990, lives and works in Zurich) is an artist and educator whose practice engages in art, performance, education and collaboration as ways of forging creative resurgence. They are interested in the complexities of collectivity and in the possibility of establishing forms of solidarity that do not homogenize, but affirm difference. Their current research investigates the political currency of incoherence and performative strategies of ambiguity, dissociation, and conflict, asking what aspects of performance might angle towards liberation or a negotiation of the constraints that one is born into.

Upcoming exhibitions and performances include: Structures of Unfeeling at BINZ39 and Tanzhaus Zürich (2024); Bl0Wn at Time Crystals, Amsterdam (2024); Mit dem Löwen Tanzen at Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (2024); Say Crack Again at UP ON Festival, Chengdu (2025). Recent performances and exhibitions include The City of Zürich Art Grant at Helmhaus, Zürich; Bl0Wn at Perrrformat, Zurich (2023), at Drifts Festival Helsinki (2023), and at Tanzhaus, Zurich (2023); Queer Trust, Shedhalle, Zurich (2022); Burner, A Shop Called Life, Rotterdam (2022); Weathering, Titanik Galleria, Turku (2021); Werkschau 2021, Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich (2021); Nieuw & Meer, Amsterdam 2020); and Versed in the Void, De Slopera, Rotterdam (2020). Baan has been awarded the City of Zürich Art Grant in 2024 and won the Audience Award at the 2023 Swiss Performance Art Awards.