Committees and juries
Committee of experts
The committee of experts is made up of 13 members with in-depth knowledge in their respective field. It assesses multi-year support agreements worth more than CHF 50,000 as well as applications for support above CHF 50,000 that are not appraised by a jury. The board of trustees appoints the committee’s members for a four-year term of office. Each member may be re-appointed once.
Stefan Humbel
Literature
President
Giulia Bini
Cultural Economics / Design
Rares Donca
Performing Arts / Dance
Anja Dirks
Performing Arts / Theatre
Ane-Christine Liske
Performing Arts / Theatre
Camille Luscher
Literature / Translation
Chrissie Muhr
Design
Joyceline Rudaswiga
Music
Gordan Savicic
Interdisciplinary Projects and Digital Culture
Nicholas Schärer
Musik
Samuel Schellenberg
Visual Arts
Juries
Pro Helvetia may resort to the services of a jury for the assessment of projects or applications for support. The Board of Trustees appoints the jury’s members for a limited period of four years.
Design
- Maddalena Casadei
- Masha Gard
- Josef Kaiser
- Genia Mineeva
- Franziska Steiner
Game Design
- Valentina Birke
- Sandro Heuberger
- Marija Ilic
- Julia Kenny
- Frank Meijer
- Doug North Cook
- Natasha Skult
- Gareth Williams
Global Network & International Affairs
Synergies
- Jazmin Alder
- Giulia Bini
- Tegan Bristow
- Aneja Urvashi
Literature
Literary creation grants
- Francesco Biamonte
- Sigrid Brinkmann
- Renzo Caduff
- Bérénice Capatti
- Daniele Cuffaro
- Stefan Humbel
- Loreto Nuñez
- Ana Sobral
Comic creation grants
- Philippe Duvanel
- Yves Nussbaum
- Marie Schröer
Music
Pop, Jazz, Global
- Chantal Bellon
- Daniel Fontana
- Oriana Cid-Wilkinson
- Nicholas Schärer
Zeitgenössische Musik
- Leo Dick
- Christophe Fellay
- Anya Leveillé
- Susanne Peters
Fast Forward
- Michal Brenner
- Marine Picard
- Irene Rossi
- Oskar Strajn
Performing Arts
- Rares Donca
- Silja Gruner
- Guillaume Guilherme
- Anne-Christine Liske
Venice Biennials
Biennale Arte 2024
- Ursula Biemann
- Riccardo Lisi
- Federica Martini
- Yvette Mutumba
- Rein Wolfs
Biennale Architettura 2025
- Anna Heringer
- Barbara Holzer
- Torsten Lange
- Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
- Evelyn Steiner
Biennale Arte 2026
- Federica Chiocchetti
- Ann-Kathrin Eickhoff
- Vittoria Matarrese
- Domagoj Smoljo
- Anahita Vessier
Visual arts
- Madeleine Amsler
- Kathrin Bentele
- Claus Gunti
- Lucie Kolb
- Nicolas Raufaste
- Shirana Shahbazi
External experts
On request, external experts advise the head office in specific matters where additional specialist knowledge is required. The board of trustees appoints each expert for a limited period of four years.
Denise Bertschi
Photography
Tiziana Conte
Performing Arts (Italian-speaking Switzerland)
Marco de Mutiis
Photography
Gabrielle Schaad
Architecture
Anshika Varma
Photography