Pro Helvetia

📢 Open call: Digital Art Residency in cooperation with transmediale/ This programme offers visual artists from Switzerland the opportunity for a two-month hybrid residency (in Berlin, June 2027 and online). It will be awarded to one individual or collective working in the field of digital art practices, at the intersection of media arts, performance, sound, and moving image. The Digital Art Residency includes an additional production grant of 15,000 CHF awarded to the selected project. The grant supports the development of a new work or the continuation of an existing project, building on the research initiated for the Digital Art Residency. 🔎 This year’s open call seeks proposals offering alternatives to how we understand, respond to, and shape the technological conditions we inhabit. 📆 Application deadline: 28 August 2026 🔗 More information and to apply: https://bit.ly/4gULxDG 📷 Impression of transmediale open studio 2026 © Sylvia Rybak

🔗 Selected artists for a residency at Swiss Institute in New York (Swiss Institute) Each year, Swiss Institute (SI) hosts two visual artists from Switzerland during a three-month residency in partnership with Pro Helvetia. Residents are provided with an apartment a few blocks away from Swiss Institute’s galleries in the heart of the East Village. Through monthly meetings with the curatorial team, artists can consult on various aspects of their practice, conduct research, and develop new work. With Swiss Institute serving as a liaison between the artist and the city’s cultural scene, residents are given the opportunity to live, learn and work in an independent and generative environment. Selected artists in residence 2027: ▪️Mina Squalli-Houssaïni: 📷 2-4: Portrait © Théa Giglio, 2026; Exhibition view, Widows #1, 2026, aluminium, hooks, trichlorethylene print on fabric, thread © Harry Gould Harvey, Fr Moca, Massachussets. ▪️Sandar Tun Tun: 📷 5-7: Portrait © Chloe Tun Tun; Exhibition view, Sandar Tun Tun, Songs of Sown Seeds, Espace 3353, 2024. © Yul Tomatala More information: https://lnkd.in/eck8WY49

Après avoir été chef du service culturel de la Ville de Lausanne pendant huit ans, Michael Kinzer, ancien programmateur (pour Fri-Son, Expo.02 et le Festival de la Cité) a pris la tête de Pro Helvetia – Fondation suisse pour la culture en 2025. Propos recueillis par Emmanuel Grandjean. https://lnkd.in/ehmWZghh

📢 Open call: Frankfurter Seilschaften Frankfurter Seilschaften is a joint mentoring programme by Pro Helvetia and A*dS . Autor*innenverband der Schweiz enabling emerging Swiss authors to participate at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2026. In their respective languages, three former participants provide insight into the Frankfurter Seilschaften programme. Swipe left 👈 to read their thoughts. Thank you Flurina Badel, Joséphine de Weck, and Vera Hohleiter for sharing. Applications for this year's edition are welcome from: ➡️ emerging authors in the first five years of their artistic career or after presenting their work publicly for the first time (no age limit) ➡️ professional writers who identify as FINTA (women, intersex, non-binary, transgender, and agender people) 🎭All languages and literary genres are welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: 1 September 2026 🔗 For more information regarding the criteria and the application: DE: https://lnkd.in/dMu3WGXc FR: https://lnkd.in/dS8TMUm7 IT: https://lnkd.in/dPHTi3R5 EN: https://lnkd.in/d32VaBsN 📷 credits: 1 © Dirk Koy 2 © Jérémie Sarbach 3 © Pierre-Yves Massot 4 © Sung-Jo Bang

🌐 Selected artists for residencies in 2027   The annual residency programme is a cornerstone of Pro Helvetia’s work, providing artists from Switzerland and the regions of the liaison offices the opportunity to spend substantial time in a very different daily context. Residencies normally span up to three months, and offer possibilities for a rich immersive experience and ground for new work, new collaborations and new projects.   🔗 Find more information on residencies, the selected artists and their projects here: https://lnkd.in/ekEJsigT    📅 The call for residencies in Switzerland and the regions of the liaison offices is open once a year, from 1 January to 1 March. _ @Pro Helvetia Cairo - Swiss Arts Council @Pro Helvetia New Delhi - Swiss Arts Council @Pro Helvetia South America   Visuals by Hesign

Within the field of visual arts, Pro Helvetia offers support formats open year-long as well as calls for applications with specific deadlines. Discover here our open calls in visual arts. You are an artist with a connection to Switzerland? Three calls for applications are open until 1 September 2026. 🔍 𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨 provides support for new productions in artistic, documentary or applied photography. Projects can be based on analogue, digital or post-photographic picture practices. https://bit.ly/4l4SHnZ 🔍 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 supports cross-regionally established artists, photographers and architects with professional experience in an institutional setting for a new creation that is being presented for the first time. https://bit.ly/3StGOih 🔍 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 supports cross-regionally established artists, photographers and architects with professional experience in an institutional setting for a new creation that is being presented for the first time. https://bit.ly/4eNnV16 💡An FAQ is also available in the factsheets under 'Additional Information'. Illustration: Eurostandard

What can a river’s flow reveal about the transformations within a society? How do minerals teach us about states of presence? In what way could a plant reveal traces of family memories? These are some of the questions raised by projects supported by Pro Helvetia. Carried out in a variety of formats and on a range of themes, they examine the different elements surrounding us as agents of knowledge, transformation, and connection. They regard humans not as mere observers of this ecosystem, rather as an inherent element of the fabric we call nature. 📷 credits: 1&2: Nile silt fragments resting in the sand, Studio Eidola’s residency project in Egypt. 3: Céline Manz brought to light stories embedded in the landscape in Murmurs of the Pearl. 📷 Detail of the installation Mermaid Forensics at Guangdong Times Museum in Guangzhou in May 2026, as part of Murmurs of the Pearl © Céline Manz. 4: In rīḥa, Hichem Merouche analysed a plant carrying intimate bonds. 📷 Hichem Merouche’s work with plant essences and fragrances. 5: Studio Eidola investigated how clay shapes Egyptian society in Is the Dam High Enough? 📷 Jonas Kissling and Denizay Apusoglu pouring of prototypes during their residency project in Egypt. 6: With Metabolic Cosmopolitics, Francesca Brusa researched environmental art practices linked to oralitures. 📷 A bamboo tribute to elephants in Bhalla, symbolising their connection with local communities. 7: Lessons from birds and collective memories gave form to Dorothy Wong Ka Chung and Benjamin Ryser’s Rockfall and Birdsong. 📷 Video-sound installation shot. Swinhoe’s pheasant photo taken by our collaborator Yuri Pasang at Skadang tribe, Hualien, Taiwan. 8: Matheline Marmy explored the intersections of landscape and geology in Time Capsule. 📷 Matheline Marmy, Untitled 6 (Excroissance), 2026 © Casa Azu. 9: Lithic Alliance investigated the connection between minerals and societ in Healing Extraction. 📷 Land in Alto Paraíso de Goiás, Brazil. 👉 Read more 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eGbRRTeE Pro Helvetia Cairo - Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia Johannesburg Pro Helvetia New Delhi - Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia Shanghai Pro Helvetia South America

Open calls – Game Design Work Grants You can apply for grants for pre-production, production, and post-production. Our support is aimed at emerging talents from Switzerland in the field of game design. Emerging talents are considered professional creatives who have completed their professional training in a relevant field or who founded a company (as a legal entity) less than 7 years ago. 🗓 Deadline: 1 September 2026 More info on all game design funding measures in our info event on 5 August, from 5-6 pm. Please register via link in bio. 📷 Data Orbit & Lucas Manser

🎭🇨🇭 Cette année, la Sélection Suisse célèbre dix ans de présence au Festival Off d’Avignon ! Accompagnée du consul général de Suisse à Marseille, Christophe Vauthey, l’ambassadrice de Suisse en France, Tania Cavassini, est allée à la rencontre des artistes et des équipes qui font vivre cette vitrine de la création contemporaine suisse. Depuis dix ans, la Sélection suisse en Avignon offre aux compagnies suisses une opportunité unique de présenter leurs œuvres au cœur du festival Off Avignon. Portée par Pro Helvetia et Corodis - commission romande de diffusion des spectacles, en collaboration avec les cantons et les villes suisses, la Sélection Suisse favorise les rencontres avec les professionnels du spectacle vivant et contribue au rayonnement de la scène artistique suisse bien au-delà du festival. Jusqu’au 21 juillet, retrouvez la diversité et la richesse de la création suisse contemporaine, entre théâtre, danse et performance : https://lnkd.in/ejGrc_DV #FestivalOffAvignon #PlusQueDesVoisins