Yvonne Apiyo Brändle-Amolo

Yvonne Apiyo Brändle-Amolo: an elected member of the Swiss parliament for the Social democratic party, the CEO of Pan African Women’s Association.

She is best known for her Femme-Artivism which involves using mixed mediums like Swiss yodel, sculpture, video and visual arts to challenge societal identity politics. Ms Brändle-Amolo holds Massachusetts Institute of Technology certificate on Virtual and Augmented Reality studies. Between 2014 to 2019, her short film “Not Swiss Made“ about racism in Switzerland won 18 prices globally starting with the Arte Laguna Video Art and Performance price in Venice, Italy. 

In 2015, she was artist in residence at the Art Olympics Biennale – Kenyan Pavillion in Venice, Italy. Her One Family – human blood sculptures also caused a buzz in 2017 as did her Swiss traditional folks dance intervention which taught traditional Swiss dance to refugees and Swiss people during an organised cantonal Swiss dance festival as a dual integration initiative. 

In 2018 her food intervention The way to an enemy’s heart was part of Ernesto Netos Gaia Mother tree exhibition.

After her post graduate studies as a curator in the Zürich School of Arts, Ms Brändle-Amolo went on to curate a series of social-political lounge interventions called Feminist Salon in 2019 consisting of film, discussions, and performances. She also started a VLOG African Descent for her launch of the United Nations initiative the International Decade for People of African Descent in Switzerland. 

In 2021 she was part of a curating team that organised a 5 day an art projection Fraumunster21, celebrating the 50th anniversary of women’s federal right to vote in Switzerland which won the special architectural price at the ARC Awards 2022. 

Ms Brändle Amolo is currently displaying an XR art piece called “the most disrespected woman is the Black woman” in the exhibition on Zürich and Colonialism curated by the city of Zürich and is an interdisciplinary PhD student on gender and diversity, politics and XR technology at the University of Maastricht.