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.
Marie-Anne Jancik
Music / Classical music
President
Giulia Bini
Cultural Economics / Design
Serena O. Dankwa
Diversity
Rares Donca
Performing Arts / Dance
Anja Dirks
Performing Arts / Theatre
Kijan Espahangizi
Culture and Society
Stefan Humbel
Literature
Anne-Christine Liske
Performing Arts /Theatre
Gordan Savicic
Interdisciplinary Projects and Digital Culture
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
Design
- Laetitia de Allegri
- Katarina Rimarcikova
- Franziska Steiner
- Nicholai Wiig-Hansen
Game Design
- Valentina Birke
- Sandro Heuberger
- Marija Ilic
- Julia Kenny
- Frank Meijer
- Doug North Cook
- Natasha Skult
- Gareth Williams
Innovation & Society
- Giulia Bini
- Léa Genoud
- Salome Hohl
- Gérald Marolf
- Christian Simm
- Jennifer Teets
Synergies
- Lilian Fraiji
- Ariane Koek
- Radha Mahendru
- Luc Meier
- Ga Zhang
Literature
Literary creation grants
- Eric Bulliard
- Renzo Caduff
- Tania Collani
- Daniele Cuffaro
- Etrit Hasler
- Stefan Humbel
- Loreto Nuñez
- Wiebke Porombka
Comic creation grants
- Philippe Duvanel
- Yves Nussbaum
- Marie Schröer
Music
SCENIC AND INSTALLATIVE MUSIC PROJECT
- Angela Bürger
- Marie Anne Jancik
- Uli Fussenegger
- Patrick Müller
Fast Forward
- Michal Brenner
- Marine Picard
- Irene Rossi
- Oskar Strajn
Performing Arts
- Angela Bürger
- Rares Donca
- Guillaume Guilherme
- Anne-Christine Liske
- Kris Merken
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
- Kathrin Bentele
- Lucie Kolb
- Elise Lammer
- Elio Schenini
- Katja Schenker
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.
Jana Avanzini
Folk theatre
Denise Bertschi
Photography
Francesco Buzzi
Architecture
Miriam Camara
Diversity and equality
Tiziana Conte
Performing Arts (Italian-speaking Switzerland)
Caroline Haas
Kleinkunst
Marco de Mutiis
Photography
Ivana Pilic
Diversity and equality
Vincent Sahli
Design
Gabrielle Schaad
Architecture
Anshika Varma
Photography