Sasha Huber

Switzerland

Sasha Huber

Sasha Huber was born in Uster in 1975. She is an internationally recognized artist and scholar with Swiss-Haitian roots. She completed a Master’s degree in Visual Culture at the Aalto University in Helsinki and is doing post-graduate work in artistic research at the Zurich University of the Arts. Sasha Huber lives and works in Helsinki.
Huber’s artworks engage with the politics of memory and colonial vestiges in the modern environment. She uses various media, including installations, video, performance, and photography to draw attention to the complexity of historical and social contexts. Her works have been exhibited internationally and have received much recognition for their artistic quality as well as for their political relevance and critical stance. Most recently, Huber was part of the exhibition Stranger in the Village: Racism through the Prism of James Baldwin in the Aargauer Kunsthaus. In Leukerbad, her portrait made of staples, The Firsts – James Baldwin, has been displayed on the shutters of the ‘Burg Hüsli’ house since 2018.


Stranger in the Village. Katalog. Scheidegger & Spiess 2024
You Name It. Mousse Publishing 2022
Rentyhorn. Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma 2010

Sasha Huber will visit her Baldwin portrait and reflect on her engagement with James Baldwin as part of the James Baldwin Feature.

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29th Leukerbad International Literary Festival: 6.20.–22.2025