Bast Hippocrate is a Swiss artist of African descent, gay, and a second-generation immigrant.
His practice is characterized by the staging of raw and magnetic bodies, where vulnerability, physicality, and porosity intertwine with societal and interpersonal themes. Through an approach based on autofiction, he explores human relationships and the way our intimate stories resonate collectively, building bridges between the micro and the macro, between the personal and the political.
After a self-taught career, he obtained a Bachelor’s degree from La Manufacture HES-SO Lausanne in 2019.
His creations, notably LoveLettersOrNot (2021) and Joyaux lourdement sous-estimés (2025), tenderly and intensely question intimacy, the complexity of relationships, and the management of individual trauma.
Bast Hippocrate develops his projects at the crossroads of dance, performance, and storytelling, often drawing on pop music and autofictional narratives.
He regularly collaborates with artists such as Géraldine Chollet, Simone Aughterlony, and Valerie Reding, while pursuing research that aims to create spaces for sharing, listening, and resonance, where bodies become territories of connection and transformation.
