About us

Rembert Biemond was born 1958 in the Netherlands. After completing a bachelor's degree in economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and a masters in management and organisation at Groningen University, he was the manager of a college in his home country from 1983-1987. From 1987-1997 Rembert worked at the Goetheanum, Dornach, among other things as the executive director of the Goetheanum Bühne. In 1997 he started Biemond & Partners Basel, Agents & Consultants under the roof of which PASS, Performing Art ServiceS, the predecessor to CULTURESCAPES was founded. Rembert was managing partner at Unternehmen Mitte, Basel and from 2002-2009 CEO of Lehmann Natur, Mönchengladbach.

Since 2010, Rembert is living in Järna, Sweden with his wife and two children, where he is working as a cultural entrepreneur. At Kulturcentrum Järna he initiated a large-scale exhibition tetralogy under the title ‹See! Colour!›, which included vast light instalations by the american artist James Turrell.

He retains his ties to Switzerland as a board member of the Edith Maryon foundation, the Ackermannshof AG, the Evidenz foundation, as well as the Pro Denkbilder association and as co-founder and founding president of CULTURESCAPES.

Dipl. Ing. (Industrial Engineer)

Born in Dresden in 1943, Michael moved to Basel in1989 after previously living in Zürich and Berlin.

Michael graduated in Technology and Business Administration from the Technical University Berlin and subsequently worked as a director of studies and an assistant lecturer, as well as a consultant and a manager, initially at GDI Rüschlikon and then at the WWZ Forum of the University of Basel. He is currently course coordinator und director of an MBA programme at the University of Basel.

Born 1960 in Bern, Daniela Settelen-Trees has lived in Basel since 1989. After her studies of art history in Bern, Basel and Munich, worked as an art historian in museums, galeries and foundations.

Since 2008 she is the directior of the GGG Atelierhaus in Basel, among other mandates in cultural management, and has published several art books.

Born in Muri AG 1986, has been working for CULTURESCAPES since 2010

Eleni studies Sinology and Slavonic Studies at the University of Zurich. After having received a one-year scholarship, she studied at Chang'an University in Xi'an, China. Previously she spent an exchange year in St. Petersburg, Russia and went to Spain, England and Geneva to practice languages. Several years she participated in the national and international Olympiad in Informatics. She is teaching Chinese at a middle school in Aarau.

Born in Liestal in 1986. Works for CULTURESCAPES since 2010. 

Graduated DMS 3 in Liestal in 2005, commercial apprenticeship in a travel agency in Basel (2005 - 2008). 2008 - 2010 Luisa was working as a commercial employee. Additionally she assisted at several cultural events e.g. JKF Basel, offene Bühne and Bscene. Since 2010 she is a member of the external executive board of Bscene.

English studies abroad in Canada as well as in USA in 2008 and longer travels throughout Asia in 2009.

Born in Waldshut-Tiengen in 1982. Works for CULTURESCAPES since 2009.

During her studies, she completed work placements within the field of exhibitions, including curatorial work for an exhibition project at the University of Frankfurt am Main including the publication of an exhibition catalogue. Eva has also worked as a project assistant for "artsite.tv" in Frankfurt am Main. In January 2009, she successfully graduated from the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main having studied Art History and Cultural Anthropology.   

Born in Berlin 1980, resident in Basel since 2008. Has been working for CULTURESCAPES since 2010.

As the director of the LUMAS Gallery Zurich, she collaborated with international contemporary photographers and was responsible for the gallery public relation & communication.

Masters of Arts in Cultural Athropology and American Studies at the Humboldt University Berlin (2005). Awarded DAAD scholarship to conduct research at the Sorbonne University Paris for master thesis.

Curated various exhibitions and shows including publications for exhibition catalogues and editorial work for cultural organizations like Arte, Berlin University of the Arts and Haus der Kulture der Welt Berlin.

Project Manager for the gallery magazin Art Collector. Founder of Art Plan B - art base for young artists from Berlin, Basel, Barcelona, Baku and Buenos Aires.

Currently postgraduate studies in Cultural Management at the University Basel.

Born in Winterthur in 1982. Works for CULTURESCAPES since 2010.

Student of German Studies, Sinology and Modern History at the University of Zürich. After having received a one-year scholarship, she studied at Yunnan Normal University in Kunming/China in 2007, previously she attended language school of the University of Sorbonne in Paris for six months. Cathrine has assisted in various translation-projects Chinese-German and English-German. She has also done assistance for the festival ‘Winterthurer Musikfestwochen'.

Katharina lived and worked in China between 2000 and 2009.

She has worked as a freelance documentary maker ("My camera doesn't lie"), TV producer and researcher for Austrian broadcaster ORF and other European TV stations, and as a journalist and film festival curator in Beijing.

Born in Leipzig in 1985. Works for CULTURESCAPES since 2006.

She previously completed work placements at the German TV station RBB (2005) and the news agency REUTERS (2005) in Berlin, and as a production assistant at the Neue Theater am Bahnhof Dornach and the Od-theater for the anniversary production of The Abduction from the Seraglio (February/March 2006, Dornach) and the theatre production of Antigone (September/October 2006, Basel) respectively.

Franziska graduated from the University of Potsdam in European Media Science (BA) in September 2007 and has been studying Cultural Management (MA) part time since October 2009.

Born in Basel in 1975. Works for CULTURESCAPES since 2010.

Patrick graduated German studies, art history and English literature studies at University of Basel. He had worked as an assistant director during the season 2005/06 at Schauspiel of Theater Basel before he started his work as a freelance dramaturg - amongst others with: one hit wonder, Krähenbühl & Co and KLARA Theaterproduktionen, at Theater Neumarkt with Anna-Sophie Mahler, ‹X Wohnungen› (Idea and conception: Matthias Lilienthal) in Fribourg, Istanbul and Vienna; production management of Christoph Schlingensief's „Sterben lernen" at Theater Neumarkt/Schauspielhaus Zürich.  

Born in Basel in 1965. Works for CULTURESCAPES since 2008.

Thomas worked at Kaserne Basel until 2001 before becoming a self-employed light and sound technician for various companies, such as Biennale Bern, Anna Huber Company, Christoph Marthaler, and was the technical director of the Music Festival Bern.