Mandate and Legal Regulations

Artistic creation

We award work grants, production funding and creation grants to cultural practitioners of cross-regional importance. These types of funding support the creation of outstanding art creations, prototypes and productions.

Cultural exchange in Switzerland

We support artistic projects and events that contribute to the dissemination of works and understanding between the regions. Funding is provided for domestic tours, readings, concerts, exhibitions, translations and festivals.

Cultural exchange, dissemination and promotion outside Switzerland

We fund events, projects and translations in order to promote Swiss art and culture outside Switzerland and to foster cultural exchange with other cultural areas. To ensure that Swiss artists can better position themselves in international networks and markets, and to raise awareness of Swiss artists among event organisers abroad, we implement measures for international promotion and fund Switzerland’s appearances as a guest country at international events.

Cultural stimulus

Through specific promotion and research programmes we contribute to identifying major developments and challenges in the area of cultural promotion, develop appropriate measures and create space and impulses that enable innovation.

Emerging artists

We facilitate the launch of a professional career in the arts at national or international level for artists and cultural practitioners who show the appropriate potential. In collaboration with selected partner institutions, we offer residency and coaching programmes, enable opportunities for performances or exhibitions, and grant financial support for networking.

Art mediation 

We promote measures that engage audiences in the process of reflecting on the arts and thus bring them closer to artistic works and performances. In particular, new forms of critical reflection on contemporary artistic and cultural creation are promoted.