Sasha Huber is the festival artist for the Molde International Jazz Festival 2026.

The Møre og Romsdal Kunstsenter and the Molde International Jazz Festival are proud to present Sasha Huber as the festival artist for the Moldejazz 2026.

Sasha Huber is Swiss-Haitian visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland, whose work is closely interwoven with activism, particularly around decolonization, historical memory, racial justice, and the politics of public monuments and place names. Her artistic practice serve as a form of intervention aimed at exposing and repairing the ongoing effects of colonialism.

Huber describes many of her projects as “reparative interventions.” She investigates how landscapes, monuments, glaciers, mountains, and public names preserve histories of colonialism and racism. Her work asks the important question of who is remembered, who is forgotten, and how public memory can be reshaped.

Bridging past and present, she works with archival material through a multifaceted practice encompassing reparative interventions, film, photography, and collaboration. The staple gun, a recurring tool in her work, functions as a potent symbol of both violence and repair, serving as a means to metaphorically mend the fractures left by colonial histories. Her artistic research has notably contributed to the Demounting Louis Agassiz campaign, which seeks to critically re-evaluate the racist legacy of the glaciologist Louis Agassiz and its continued presence in contemporary public memory.

Sasha Huber was born in Eglisau, Switzerland in 1975. Following in the footsteps of her maternal grandfather—a self-taught artist who co-founded an art centre in Port-au-Prince in 1944—she initially trained as a graphic designer before pursuing a career as an artist. After completing a preparatory course at the Zurich School of Design, she earned a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design (1991–1996). She later obtained a Master’s degree in Visual Culture from Aalto University (2002–2006). In 2017, she began a PhD in artistic research jointly conducted at the Zurich University of the Arts and the University of Arts Linz.

Huber’s work has been presented in numerous solo exhibitions, including at Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam (2021); The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2022); Autograph, London (2022); and the Turku Art Museum, Turku (2023). Her work has also featured in major international exhibitions, including the São Paulo Biennial (2010), Sydney Biennale (2014), Venice Biennale (2015), and Helsinki Biennial (2023), as well as exhibitions at Aargauer Kunsthaus (2023), Kunsthaus Zürich (2024), and Ferme-Asile, Sion (2024).

Her achievements have been recognised with several distinctions, including the State Art Prize of Finland in 2018. Since 2022, she has held a multi-year Artist’s Grant from the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (2022–2026).