Committees and juries
Committee of experts
The committee of experts is made up of up to 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
Anne-Marie Arioli
Performing arts
Ane-Christine Liske
Performing arts / Theatre
Camille Luscher
Literature / Translation
Chrissie Muhr
Design
Jocelyne Rudasigwa
Music
Nicholas Schärer
Music
Samuel Schellenberg
Visual arts
Nadia Schneider Willen
Visual arts
Yvonne Volkart
Sustainable art practice
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
- Jasmin Adler
- Giulia Bini
- Tegan Bristow
- Chris Salter
- Aneja Urvashi
Innovation & Society
Art+
- Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah
- Jelena Martinovic
- Martin Schick
PolArts
- Bénédicte Brunet
- Claudia Schnugg
Literature
Literary creation grants
- Francesco Briamonte
- Sigrid Brinkmann
- Renzo Caduff
- Bérénice Capatti
- Stefan Humbel
- Magda Mandelli
- Loreto Nuñez
- Ana Sobral
Comic creation grants
- Philippe Duvanel
- Yves Nussbaum
- Anna Sailer
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
- Irene Rossi
- Oskar Strajn
Performing Arts
- Ann-Marie Arioli
- Léo Chavaz
- Silja Gruner
- Guillaume Guilherme
- Anne-Christine Liske
Visual arts
- Madeleine Amsler
- Kathrin Bentele
- Claus Gunti
- Lucie Kolb
- Nicolas Raufaste
- Shirana Shahbazi
Venice Biennials
Biennale Arte 2026
- Federica Chiocchetti
- Ann-Kathrin Eickhoff
- Vittoria Matarrese
- Domagoj Smoljo
- Anahita Vessier
Biennale Architettura 2027
- João Ferreira Nunes
- Mariam Issoufou
- John Palmesino
- Dagnija Smilga
- Ariane Widmer Pham
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.
Sara Barth
Architecture
Tiziana Conte
Performing Arts (Italian-speaking Switzerland)
Marc Frochaux
Architecture
Marco de Mutiis
Photography