Duo Bottasso

About

Duo Bottasso & Rickard Eklund are two of the four artists selected for Nonagon's residency program 2025. During their two-week residency at Svanö, they collaboratively created a new audiovisual work tailored specifically for the cistern. Duo Bottasso, working with sound, and Rickard Eklund, creating visuals, responded to the unique acoustics and atmosphere of the space, crafting a piece that directly engages with the cistern's distinctive environment. Their work will be presented for the first time to an audience in the cistern at Nonagon Festival 2026.

Biography

Duo Bottasso (IT) is an interdisciplinary music ensemble founded in 2007 by brothers Nicolò and Simone Bottasso. Based in Rotterdam, they create work at the intersection of Italian folk tradition, contemporary composition, audiovisual performance, and free improvisation. Over nearly two decades, Duo Bottasso has developed an artistic practice rejecting genre boundaries, encompassing acoustic instrumentation (violin, tenor d’amore violin, diatonic accordion, trumpet), live electronics, video mapping, archival research and site-specific performance. Projects range from concert hall presentations to immersive installations, from cinema works to community collaborations. At Nonagon Festival 2026, they will perform the audiovisual piece created together with Rickard Eklund during their Nonagon residency at the cisterns in 2025.