Yan Duyvendak was born in Holland in 1965 and has lived in Geneva and Barcelona. He was trained at the Ecole Superieure d’Art Visuel in Geneva and has worked in performance since 1995. Duyvendak regularly presents his performances at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, the Exit performing arts Festival in Helsinki, Art Unlimited Basel, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Guangju Biennale (2004), the Image Forum, Institute of the Moving Image, Tokyo, the Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, Vooruit, Gent, at the fFstival d’Avignon (2008), or at the Theaterspektakel Zurich. His video work is in numerous public and private art collections, going from the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, to the Museum für Kommunikation, Bern. In 2004, Duyvendak received,  for the third consecutive year, the “Swiss Art Award”, as well as the “Namics kunstpreis fur neue medien”.