AATB treat robotics like a material—flexible, unpredictable, almost tender. The duo, Andrea Anner and Thibault Brevet, pushes industrial automation far beyond factory logic, transforming robotic arms into performers, collaborators, and sometimes awkward companions. Their practice merges engineering with choreography: software becomes gesture, precision machining becomes play, and human–machine interaction turns into a staged, slightly uncanny intimacy. By placing robots in everyday, non-industrial contexts, AATB reveal how deeply automation already choreographs our movements and desires.
Their work has been featured at leading international institutions including ZKM Karlsruhe, V&A Dundee, Ars Electronica Linz, New Museum New York, Venice Biennale of Art, Venice Biennale of Architecture, Chengdu Biennale, Unfold X in Seoul, APS in Shanghai, Beijing Art and Technology Biennale. They have been in residence at CERN and Atelier Luma in Arles, and they received the Swiss Design Award in 2021.
As educators, AATB have taught internationally at Seoul Institute of the Arts, Design Academy Eindhoven, HFG Karlsruhe, Iceland University of the Arts, and in Switzerland at ZHDK, ECAL, HEAD, HGK, HKB, and SUPSI. They have been lecturing worldwide.
Current collaborators:
Axel Tanner (University of Zürich, CH)
Guido Randzio (Hamburg, DE)
Florian Paul König (Lucerne, CH)
Past collaborators and interns:
Jan Tempus (ETH, CH)
Matheus Vo Ngoc (University of Zürich, CH)
Edda Rabold (Burg Halle, DE)
Bryan Tredy (Centrale Marseille, FR)
Pablo Aviges (Ecole Boulle, FR)
Manon Olejak (CEPV, CH)
Daisy Chiu (Goldsmiths, UK)
Yifan Shi (University College London, UK)
Vincent Julmy (FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel, CH)
Veronika Marxer (Kingston School of Art, UK)
Severin Göbel-Groß (University of Applied Sciences Dresden, DE)
Samuel Antol (Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava, SK)
Gabrielle Laurin (Arts Décoratifs de Paris, FR)
Nicolas Moreau (EBS Paris, FR)
Aline Abou Serhal (ENSA Grenoble, FR)
